Nice Frank! 64gb of RAM? I could go for that! I've been meaning to ask - what's a good value video card that would be fully supported in Nuke (z-defocus, etc)? we have some primarily 2d workstations here that could use a boost but probably couldn't get much more than "gaming" level dollars, since not much 3d is done on them. any tips?
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Frank Rueter <[email protected]> wrote: > I just got a new linux box with hex core, 64GB ram and SSD. > > Best machine I ever had for Nuke. With the SSD I can run 4k dpxfiles in > real time in Nuke (caching can't even keep up with the playback in 2k). > With Nuke's cache and localising path on the SSD you will have a bit of > fun, especially if you are using Hiero as well pointing to the same > localising path. > > As for RAM, you can never have enough in Nuke and my gut feeling is to > rather go with more cores than the fastest ones (of course, get both if you > can afford it). > > With hyper threadable multi cores you can get yourself the free Deadline > version and use it to quickly run multiple parallel jobs on your machine > which can speed up rendering a lot. In which case you also want a bit of > RAM to hand out amongst those parallel jobs. > > All in all, it depends on what kind of work you are doing. If you do more > editing stuff and lightweight comps with many frames, bus speed and SSDs > may be more important, but for semi complex comping, IO speed is quickly > not the bottle neck anymore and you may want to invest into cpus and RAM > first. > > > > Cheers, > frank > > > > On 4/14/13 7:34 PM, NotDaBod wrote: > > I'm about to get a new machine for running nuke 7. I'm wondering where to > focus. Is RAM more important, SSD, processors, bus speed etc? > > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing [email protected], > http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >
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