Thanks, especially Matthias and Arjo. (Matthias, nice website) Igor
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthias Kappenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Which video card and screen? > Hi Igor, > > HT = HyperThreading. > > more or less two processors in one. > In RS you can benefit from more than > one processor because of the box-rendering > while raytracing the scene. > (and sometimes in postprocessing, too) > > graphic-card-bus: PCI-Express > > In my opinion you should look for a good > graphic-card with 256mb ram for using > many textures > > Spend some money to the RAM. > RS-Postprocessing needs it for highres images! > > Download a RS V5 demo from > www.realsoft.com (if not already done)--> Download section. > > and check the fish scene > (and play a little bit with textures) > Preview here: > http://www.matthias-kappenberg.de/index.php?id=112 > > render a GI-scene in highres 6000x6000px, too, > and have a look at the taskmanager for RAM usage. > > Maybe have a look here: > http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041222/vga_charts-02.html > > or check other testsites, but > ask your friends, to get their cards for one or two days. > > Hope this is helpy, > Matthias >
