You wonāt belive my Dell 8400 Dimension ( please customize your Dells )
p4 3.4
1gb of ram ( will upgrade to 2gb )
128 ati express card
Single Thread = 15.148438
Multithreaded = 9.734375
And a 35.7 % increase in speedā¦
My system is an XP Pro ver2002 SP2
Proc: Dual AMD Athlon MP 1.8 Ghz (or 2200)
Mem: 1 GB
Video: NVIDEA GeForce 6800 GT
Thatās it! I was wondering if I should spend the $700 on new procs and another gig of RAM and after seeing these scores my little three year old is starting to show her age! Time for an upgrade!
A Mac man who runs windoos box? :lol:
I didnāt think in terms of āMACā as MACintosh. When I created the log in name I was thinking in terms of my initials.
Itās brought me nothing but heart ache! 
I prefer to think of it as MAC as in MAC Daddy. Hee hee :lol:
I made a test with my school computer :
Dell Precision 380
P4 HT 3.6GHz
2 GB of RAM
Win x64
Ati FireGL V3100
Dual dual-core Opteron 280
Single thread 8.14
Multi threaded 5.22
And thatās while VUE5 is rendering a highres picture in the backgroundā¦
Multi threaded as the only task on the box: 5.02
AMD Rocks!
Hmmm, was expecting more of a dualcore Opteronā¦ My Dual Xeon 3.4 got Single :7.259 and Dual: 4.737 and itās almost a year oldā¦ Are you running xp64 OS? We are gonna buy new computers at work and I want the best performance possibleā¦
thats what ive always said. those benchmarks we see on websites are useless unless you try them on things you actually use. in photoshop and zbrush. intel kicks a lot of butt. so i stick with it. plus its much cheaper too.
I really wanna see what numbers the new G5 Quad system puts upā¦
Yeah I wanna see how the new G5 Quad core does, Zbrush seems to run very nicely with macs
anyways rite now I am modelling a 800k model I want to divide once more but it will become 3.2 which is beyond my systemās limit is there anything I can do? ( i tried dividing but it becomes so slow)
I am using P4 3.2 1GB of RAM Radeon 9700 pro.
throw in another gig of ram.
Nope, running Win32 right now. The 64bit version has to many featuresā¦
And ZBrush did not use all 4 cpuās. Only two. And AMD does not support āHyperthreadingāā¦ VUE5 and XSI5 are flying on the box. Came down from 23hours rendertime to 30-45 minutesā¦ Iām looking forward to the XSI5 Linux test Iāll do next weekā¦
Lemo
Hey guys,
Just out of curiosity does Zbrush have hardware acceleration? no one seems to be talking much about Graphics card here only CPUs and Memory
how can the viewport move around so fast without hardware acceleration even with 2m or even higher poly objects.
ZMagic?
PixolDust driven GPU code!
Hey this ones for Aurick i guess, just wondering if ZB would make use of the 4 cores in the new g5 quad, or if it would just see 2?
obviously a g5 quad with all the ram it can hold would be a great machine for ZB, assuming its not wasting 2 of its 4 procs.
Well, I just built myself a new computer, and here are my results:
Single Thread= 8.724976
Multi Thread= 5.5487
37.1% increase
Pretty sweet!
Itās an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (AMDās dual core line) with 2 GB of Corsair TWINX PC3500 RAM on the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard (both banks of RAM have their own bus when using TWINX RAM) and dual 74GB Raptor 10,000 RPM drives.
Regarding the question about quad processors or quad core machines, I donāt think ZBrush will support that. Iāll have to check, though.
Hi all. 
5.12 on my dual Opteron 280 box. ZB uses two procs. Not more. And to make that permanent you have to edit it into the startup file. Or you have to set it every time it starts.
Cheers
Lemo
well woah! >> the tool saves to 361MB file <<
i donāt own zb yet so i donāt know much of anythingā¦ but really?! that seems really high even for a 5mil poly model. is it the ztl format - can anyone shed some light? i was about to buy another drive but maybe i need a bigger one!