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#1

Hehe, I know it will sounds a bit like “bragging” but I’m very aware of the fact that they are probably a lot of people on this forum with a better computer than mine, so it’s not bragging, it’s only about how impressed I am by Z-Brush (and paying my respect to the developers)

I got the components I needed to upgrade my computer yesterday (motherboard, 12GB of memory and a i7 980x)

I haven’t had time to really use Z-Brush in it yet, but after activating zbrush, since it was open there I decided to see what it can handle :slight_smile:

Starting with the base poly-sphere it went up to a bit over 26 millions poly and remained PERFECTLY responsive. When I clicked on the sphere after subdividing it, it halted for about a second (I guess some sort of caching) and after that, it was as responsive as a 2000 polygons model, amazing !!!

Pixo guys and girls, you will never stop to amaze me :slight_smile:

Jean-Luc

#2

That is amazing you didn’t mention your Graphics Card was.

also did you go into ZBrush Preferences and turn tweak memory and multi-threading feature? If you did, my guess is you could go even higher… Conceivably you could go to 26million and also set HDsculpt to 20million and push whole tool to 2 billion+.

#3

That’s cool. I’ve been thinking of upping my memory to 12 meg on my i7 machine.

#4

I run Z on a i7 960 , 6 GB ram ddr3 , ge285 1024 mb and it goes up to 20 mil poly’s no problem. So you might be able to get more.

#5

Not sure, but I was under the impression that the graphics card made no difference to ZB

#6

I hadn’t thought of that. If that is the case then a Dual i7 980 mobo give better performance.

#7

I only have a gtx 280 but yes, in fact the graphic card doesn’t really play a role in how fast zbrush works.
What actually impress me is not what my computer can do but the fact that a 32 bit application can handle that amount of polygons without any problem if the processing power is there.
When it comes to memory, I would guess 6GB on a x64 system is the sweet spot (zbrush should be able to access around 4GB the rest being used by the system.
You can’t have two 980x on a motherboard, but if you can afford it, you can have two xeon 5670 but the price isn’t exactly the same. My 980x runs without problem at 4.2GHZ on air while the xeon are harder to overclock due to the motherboards they use (and the ECC memory is a bit slower). So, I guess a dual xeon 5670 would be roughly 1.5 times faster than my computer but almost four times as expansive (ECC memory is VERY expansive, and the price of two xeon processors is roughly equal to three 980x) After that, it’s what you can afford and if the extra performance makes it really worth the money :slight_smile: