Hi everyone 

I recently switched from rendering with my laptop to my desktop (See my other thread on this) However when comming to render a scene with my I7 it complains it is out of memory straight away when it has got exactly the same the same memory as my laptop and that performs pretty much everything flawlessly (except for its crashes due to a overheating issue).

I really want to sort this out so that i can use my desktop for rendering and use the I7's quad capablities.

Any Idea's before I email smith micro for futher advice (here is the pc spec even though it is in my signature)

Core I7 860 2.8GHZ (custom built by PCspecialist UK)

Mthboard Asus P7P55D PRO

GF GT220 1GB DDR3

1x2GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 2x1GB DDR3 XMS3 Corsair

2x250GB SATA II HDD's

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

 

 

Desktop : AMD FX4100 , GT-630 1GB, 4x BD-RE , AOC e2343 23in LED Monitor , 1TB External (120mb/s write speed)(stores my all poser stuff and photo's from camera) and 1TB internal HDD

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Location : Rainy UK

Website @ www.steadyrabbitdesign.freezoy.com (New site still under construction) & Dev art : Tim2700

use task manager to see how much memory the application (tasks actually) are trying to use.  Check you virtual memory settings as well on the desktop.

And having 3 sticks of ram on your MB is probably keeping it from using it's dual channel capability

1x2GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 2x1GB DDR3 XMS3 Corsair

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So is that TTFN or TANSTAAFL?