Ram ?? yea Right a lot of good it does
I have 8 gigs of Ram and windows only
sees 3.25 of it I have not figured out how
to increase that. The system sees it on boot.
But the almighty Windows will not recognize it.
Anyway My system is a Quad core with 8gigs
and a 1gig video card, renders are still what
they are, allot depends on your render settings.
I just found a small tut on render settings that might help.
Amazing what’s on google.

http://www.rubicondigital.110mb.com/Code/DSRenders.html

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