Estimated render time after pass #1  was 13hr 42min 53sec

This is properties of old machine

drum roll please...............  2hrs 33min 53sec

WOW

Lol...I know exactly how ya feel!

Seeing 4 cores humming along at 100% is just the best.

Congrats!

AS

Congrats!

'Whoa ho and blow the man down !!' I wants me one of those I does. (I still gots me two hours of talkin' like a pirate  doncha know ! ! )

Congrats on your new machine :-)
Yes - its fantastic rendering with 4 CPU's - i normally sit by my old 2 core cpu and model - the i copy it to my 4 cpu - and what a difference - it's almost 66% faster even though the speed of the cpu of my old machine is a bit faster - looking forward to see 8 CPU machines - or to the time in far far far future when daz will do something about the renderengine in Bryce :-)

Well that's that then...my next cpu will have as many cores as are available when I upgrade. Oh yeah...congrats...kinda know how y feel...last time I got that much speed up on anything was when I moved over from my old AMIGA2000....LOL.. ...

Grats on new machine! :) I adore my new beast! (see sig, sorry for size but folk's kept asking "what machine to get", and I got tired of typing it in lol)

64 bit apps make a huge difference, loaded a TON of stuff into Vue I wouldn't dare on older art PC, in huge scene I'm working on at moment.

Bobby,
aye that's what it feels liek going from my P4 3GHz to quad core 8 gig RAM beast!
Amiga 500 (whch I loved) to a PC with a hard drive, hehe.
Renders ten times faster. What's not to like? :)
Bar the price, ouch....

Older pic of my system's info, before SP1 , note odd memory reporting, lol

Well at least my A2000 had a HDD, well sorta, 8M...LOLand 32M RAM. I edited your notto into not to after figuring out what notto like was...LOL, was trying to figure out how to amswer that, heh heh heh.. ...

Sorry about typos, sigh always doing that :p

Yeah I LOVED my Amiga, but OMG, disk swapping when playing Eye of the Beholder etc was a pain in the arse, hehe!

And on storage problems, was reading the new type of DVD coming out in couple of years, to replace Blue-Ray, will hold 1 TETRABYTE on a standard DVD sized disc....jeesh!!

A Huge congratulations for buying your PC!! and I'm glad that you did your homework and are now happy with the new system.

That does it!! Next time i'm in the U.S. I'm buying my components from there. :)  I would have to take out a loan to buy a Computer same as "skiwillgee"

on a side note:

Bobby: you can ship the Amiga 2000 to the following address.......hehe Just kidding.  I still have my Amiga 2000HD.  Unfortunately the hard drive was a 20MB Rodime (5.25") using an RLL/MFM Interface.. which by todays standards is a foreign language. :)  I did pickeup an 8-UP Card a few years ago, which should allow for additional RAM and SCSI interface.  I've heard there was an IDE interface being sold, but not leads on buying one.

Deluxe Paint III for the Amiga/PC was kick a$$!!!! I used to Pixel Paint using the Amiga version later the PC version.

Aaah...Deluxe Paint..I was up to 5 and I still miss it even tho I totally love Photoshop...I almost never even think about the 2 A1000's and 2 A2000HD's sittin in the basement...was told to by some boats as I already had anchors...LOL. I don't talk to him anymore. There was an image editor from I think Cloanto that also really rocked...did gradints on irregular shapes really nicely. Great for makin' bump maps but now a daze with PS CS I can do those things twice in the time it would take Miggy to fire up...progress.. ...

Again I salute all you who steered me in the right direction.  Yes, I did homework.  I think I could now build my own because of research and seeing the finished product. 

I still have a working Amiga 3000.  To nostalgic to get rid of it,  unless one of you makes an offer I can't refuse, lol. 

Congrats!

I don't know if it will work on Amiga 2000, I believe it works on 1000 and 600? there's a recent gizmo that lets you use a USB FLash drive as a hard drive, lol! Imagine an 8 gig USB stick in an AMiga!! ;)

saw them on Ebay other day.

Deluxe Paint was the bizsnatch :)
Still have Dungeons & Dragons characters I made with the portrait thing for it, and Star Wars pics.

Analg,
Cost me £1,400 for my rig. Parents helped thank goodness (hey not all of us are well off, gang, I look afer me Mom and am ill myself)

hmm, could be worse; have an Atari 800 with tape drives...still miss Star Raiders, tho...;)

Yeah, once you know how, it's a lot easier than it looks (hardware), it's only settings and drivers that can drive ya nuts. 4 cores at 100%, sounds like your heating bill will be lower this winter...;)

only envious...;)

notto notto notto ! ! sounds like something Robin Williams might say - get on down !! get back up again ! !

I had an old old old  radio shack tape driven tandy "computer" and it was so old that some of the parts in it seemed to be made of wood !!!

My first computer had 1.9k of memory after upgrade. A hard drive was something you did in a car, and a mouse was killed on sight. The screen resolution could be represented using fingers and toes and it had a colour palette of BLACK and WHITE. Welcome to 1979. I remember standing around with a group of people a few years later while a tech head showed us the miracle that was a C64. Another few years and another group of us are jaw on the floor as a A500 ran the Juggler demo.

I listen to kids today bitch because their dual core 4 gig games machine doesn't cut it any more and just shake my head.

Cyba_storm,
ahaha! yup, so true :)
I recall a shop in Glasgow, it's still there, which had colour prints of images, made on an Amiga...wow!!!

First ever proper 3D item in a computer game (an animated sequence of your characters head turning into a werewolf in Legends of Valor)

An uncle years ago, engrossed playing Eye of the Beholder on my Amiga, ducking and swearing as he fought/avoided the beasties :p

Playing Space Crusade on the AMiga with a cousin to 6 am!

ah, great days!! :)

I had forgotten about those bouncing checkered balls.  My favorite Amiga game was Vector Storm, a rip off and improvement on Tempest.  I had fun showing the IBM crowd it would actually play music, talk to you, show graphics and format a disc at the same time.  

Only game I ever had on my Miggy was a weird game but t'was 3D with glasses whidh plugged into the game port/mouse port forget which. In it you fly a space ship trying to avoid asteroids which were composed of fat. When one hits you the avatar you've chosen which sat in the bottom left of the screen got fatter by the hit. Eventually you blow up...I never won a game, don't think it was possible....LOL.. ...

old stuff - that reminds me . . . it's dinner time.
...meanwhile back at the topic...

A 2.8g quad? I'd bet that thing screams through games like "Mass Effect" and "The Witcher". I'd give my eye teeth for that if they weren't  already spoken for but I wouldn't want your credit card bill. Bryce renders at about ... let's see ... 5.5 times faster !!!  Good Golly Miss Molly!!! ... that thing's breaking the speed of light! (took it a while for it to sink in.)

Bikermouse

I might mention the the old PC has every app and program under the sun slowing it down.  Worst is Norton.  But a slue of others in the background.  I did not take the time to defeat Norton before the test render, a step I always took before when starting a lengthy render. 

The new PC is lean and mean with no distractions from other apps.

An old gamer's trick you might try in Windows: using Task Manager, all the running processes that are the current user's can be ordered by pressing user name in processes. delete all the processes connected to the current user except explorer and task manager - delete nothing else . If it doesn't crash the system, in XP anyway it shouldn't, you might notice an increase in speed  with Bryce ?????????