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What graphics card do you have?

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#1

Hi, Id like to run a quick thread on some specs to see whats out there.

post at minimum the graphics card you have AND graphics card you wish you had.

example: me radeon all in wonder 9600 / don’t know what I want but I know I want something bigger…

See ya! :wink:

ADDED!!!

oh wow…totally forgot a HUGE part to this!!! dont forget to include ALSO about where your computer bogs down and you resort to massive amounts of hiding.

I get to about 1 million polys and cant efficiently stroke anymore :frowning:

PS
dont move this, it is very directly related to zbrush :smiley: I think zbrush website should have a list of specs that work very well with it too!!! :stuck_out_tongue:

#2

Hey,

ATI X800 (have) … maybe a wish on the Fire GL?

Dan

Edit: well i ran some tests it looks like about 1,000,000 polys and i can still work effectively with some slowdown but when i goto 2,000,000+ i get errors and freezes and very slow response. I might need to adjust a few settings and maybe i could improve things.

i dont know how much it matters but i have 2Gigs system ram but i dont think my compact mem setting is set to use a good portion of that.

Edit2: well indeed … i had my compact mem setting set to 1024 on the previous tests I upped it to 2048 just to see what would happen and 2,000,000 polyes was workable still slowere but useable … learned another new thing today.

#3

question answered

#4

GFX Card should not be the biggest bottleneck for high res meshes… memory and cpu should be more important…

I have AMD 3500+ Venice, 2 GB DDR, XFX 6600 GT runs smooth with 2.5 million poly’s after that it starts to lagg…

Wish i waited fo the new dual core cpu’s :rolleyes:

#5

You should remember that ZBrush uses a software renderer and therefore is not dependent on the graphics card, at least not to the extent other 3D applications are. You still need a basic graphics card that will accelerate standard Windows/Macintosh functions.

CPU, CPU speed, the amount of RAM, RAM speed and harddisk speed are important for ZBrush. The efficiency of your CPU will govern how fast you can rotate a tool. The amount of RAM will dictate how many times you can subdivide your tool. Harddisk speed will help when you have used all your ram, a quicker harddisk will lessen the wait while ZBrush compacts memory. It also helps when loading multimillion polygon tools.

You should check ZBrush 2 Performance Tips – Getting the Most from Your System for more info.

Have fun.

#6

Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition with dual LCD’s connected
2GB P4 1.9GHz WinXP … Steam operated and wood fired…
500K-1Mega Poly is the limit before positioning etc becomes guess work and nerve tonic has to be taken.

Next PC is a AMD X2 4800 with 8GB RAM and Nvidia 4400 and SCSI disks.
That is the quickest workstation you can put together. Maybe if a bigger job comes along another box with dual dual-core opterons which are good for render crunching but ‘useless’ as a interactive workstation.

In the ZB video the number of 20Mio Poly’s was mentioned, so there must be 64Bit support. Or the magic Bitxol with 2,5 times the regular Bit capacity has been invented. With the Pixologic talent… you never know…

cheers
Lemo

#7

Maybe we should move this to the community forum…

#8

Quadro FX 1100 here. Works real good but sounds like a jet airplane on the runway.

#9

I have an AMD FX-53 (nForce4 Ultra chipset), 2 Gigs DDR, and a 6800 Ultra (BFG). It runs smooth enough to work at over 2 mil as long as I hide portions while detailing. I also wish I had waited for a dual core cpu. As far as video cards I want dual geforce 7s in SLI - not that it would help with zbrush ;).

I’m also wondering if throwing in another 2 gigs of RAM would help? 2 mil seems to work great for doing a bust but doesn’t seem to be quite enough for a full figure. Or perhaps thats because I’m a noob :confused:.

#10

:smiley: It would be nice to be the owner of this beast…

#11

LOL … thats insane :lol:

#12

haha 128 gb of ram…yeah it sure would be nice! Hell it would be nice to have the kind of money it would take to dream about owning 128 gigs of ram. :smiley:

#13

but you wouldnt need a hdd :lol: