I hope you fail that final, for the repuation of your school.

And if you were serious you would know that the answer is always to build a farm. If you dont have money for one, then you dont really need to upgrade anyways

>>233937
your a fucking retard.

next poster please.

>>233938
your a fucking retard.

next poster please.

>>233939

ide much prefer constructive crits if your going to crit at all(which i didnt ask for.) also dont crit me because i dont care what an anon has to say about my work especially when its in the roughed out phase.

go back to /b

>also dont crit me because i dont care what an anon has to say about my work
GB2deviantart fagget

Woah... you need to seriously hit some Gnomon tutorials, it seems to me that what you need is not a upgrade on your computer specs, but rather your texture skills. i hope this is just the starting point and not the actual final product of your project

>>233942
again. im not asking for a crit of my work. also if you read the post i said that this is a rough. textures, lighting and render settings arnt even near completion. i was still in the modelidng phase and put on some very general textures to get a sense of what i was doing. i know this is 4chan and all but i thought that us in /3 had more class than to troll all day long.

>>233941

still dont care. not going to waste my time going to your deviant art account.

>>233935
I wouldn't upgrade the processor, the increase in performance would probably be quite small, especially compared to the cost. (Or just see for yourself: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=AMD+Phenom+II+X4+945)

Of course it might depend on your specific situation, which I can't say I know. But especially if you're short on money, it might be a better idea to save the money.

>>233944
hm. i was hoping that adding more cores would reduce render time. not sure if thats the case but considering it would add more buckets( in mental ray) ide assume it would.

>>233945
It might depend on what kind and how much of rendering you usually do, and how much time it generally takes. Mental ray seems to benefit a lot from multiple cores and it seems to support render farms, but it's good to ask yourself if the increase would be a necessity or more like a luxury.

>>233950

hm. ill have to think on that one.

>>233951
Also, note that I'm not saying that you should never upgrade your computer, but it might be better to wait for a few years before you do that. And it's also a matter of your financial situation.

>>233954

yea i mean, at this point my computer is two years old. ive upgraded from 4 gigs to 8 gigs of ram. my graphix card might need an upgrade and my cpu may as well but like you said it comes down to the financial situation. my school is just now getting a render farm set up so i may just allow my renders to be done there. btw my graphix car is an nvideo gtx 285.

>>233954
and when i compare something like this
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?pq=cpu+upgrade+guide&hl=en&sugexp=pfwc&cp=5&g
s_id=j&xhr=t&q=am3+cpu&qe=YW0zIGM&qesig=-19jN2v6836sPUP-LTrxkQ&pkc=AFgZ2tmDeq-op
yTB5y1Sl5mHnnkJ72HXwVJkNZmd9DdWA1q_7FhktCK3fjDHhdebR043bSH0hcq8WN9EWBqih0r_eAT8TbMnkw&gs_upl=&am
p;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1920&bih=1019&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=14
678895150520375047&sa=X&ei=jBV8Tp_7H4T30gGe7cka&sqi=2&ved=0CGsQ8wIwAA

to my processor, for the price it seems like a really good deal. unless im missing something, this seems like a pretty big upgrade form a quadcore 3.0

>>233958
Yeah, it might not be a bad upgrade if you spend much time rendering and it's not a very big investment, but it's also not that bad of an idea to wait. I doubt either is the worst decision you'll make during your life, but you're in a much better position to decide than I ever will be.

>>233935
check if your motherboard supports phenom II x6, the 1100T goes for ~200$ (just noticed you've already seen that one), and it's the best amd consumer cpu at the moment. ram costs are incredibly low, so you could get another 8gb for ~50$ (if you've got some free slots). i've got such a system 3 days ago and i'm really impressed by the performance. if you decide to upgrade your graphics card, you might want to avoid nvidia 400 series cards, since they have crippled opengl performance.

hmm. trying to figure out how i know if its compatible or not. i have msi 785gm e65 motherboard. do i just look for am3 socket comparability or is there more to it than just that.

>>233971
http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/motherboards/1928_2.html

Processor Types AMD Phenom II X3, X4

Looks like it doesn't.

>>233971
http://lt.msi.com/product/mb/785GM-E65.html#?div=CPUSupport
it looks that it DOES support it, you will most probably need to update the BIOS
damn it man, why are you saving money on motherboard? cheap-ass microATX, wtf?

>>233974
don't spread the misinformation, nub

>>233964
This is relevant to my interests. I've heard that was the reason why 3ds max performs so poorly. I have a 460 and max is so fucking slow and unstable, is that true?

>>234030
I have 9800GT and 3ds max runs fine for me.

>>234032
I'm going to try my old 9600GT right now. If it works I'm going to have to dick slap someone at nvidia. I bought the 460 to get into 3d, if its true that nvidia crippled performance I'm selling this piece of shit right now and going ati.

>>234033
>blaming nvidia for autodesk bugs
i derp'ed so much i almost derp'ed

>>233992
oh idk. when i was shopping i was just trying to get a good rig under 1500(back in 08 or 09 i cant remember) i knew what iw anted in terms of memory and graphics card but didnt know, and still dont know, much about cpu and motherboards. if you care to enlighten me be my guest.