I've got a laptop with an i5-2450M 2.5 GHz in it. Compared to my old laptop, it is very fast and with Poser is preforms well. Since I've started to use Vue 10 Studio, it's a different story. It's still twice as fast as my old laptop, but it's slow in rendering. What kills the i5 speed are transparencies and volumetric skies with cloud layers.

 

I did run Cinebench 11.5 on my laptop and got a score of 2.07.... very low.

 

Since I've got hypervue (already linked up a couple of old laptops for rendering) I was thinking of buying a desktop just for rendering. Don't want to spent lot's of money on, but it needs to be a lot faster then my laptop, but a simple system will do, no fancy graphics card and so on.  I intend to sent the final versions of scenes that need to be rendered there, while working on the laptop on new scenes.

 

Started to look around and the 8 core AMD FX-8150 seems pretty good, get's a bit more then 6 on Cinebench 11.5. The FX-8120 seems close as well, could be an ok choice. The i5 2500 is close, but I'm afraid it has the same transparency / skies issues as mine. The i7 2600 is an option, but I do find that a bit too expensive and I'm not sure how much gain there will be. Not sure how the newer i5's & i7's will prerform, but they're pricey. The new AMD's A10 seem to be a no-go, since they're much slower then the old ones according to the tests.

 

Does anyone use the FX-8150 or 8120 with Vue and how does it perform? Does it choke on transparancies or skies as the i5 does? Perhaps someone with a machine like that can render a test scene and post the time? Anyone who does have a FX-8120, 8150 or i5 and even i7 could you perhaps participate, post your cpu and the rendering time and even Vue version (preferably 10), that would be a great help!

 

Scene: Seychelles, found in samples 1 (don't change anything, except for the render settings), see image. Render to screen, final quality, 640x427. My time: 15 mins 40 secs.

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