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I don't think I will have enough to buy a second computer for rendering full time this month, however, I 100% will have enough next month. With that being said, I have been rendering every night or whenever I am not animating and I am mostly caught up. I am only like 200 frames + the cum sequence behind.

If I get too far behind I will use the render farm a little to play catch up though.

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bigwiggy

Sounds like it's all coming together.

michael whipps

How much do you need for a new comp? Maybe if you (post) the amount patrons will help!!..I am still going to update my membership but that will not be until the 21st of this month

Frank Celestino

If you need any help on the build, let me know. Graphics card prices are at an all time high right now with all the cryptocurrency mining, so keep that in mind. I think the high end cards are showing the worst as far as cost inflation goes, so you may be able to get by with a mid-range card, good processor (thread ripper perhaps) and loads of RAM. IIRC your current build is intel based. Will you be sticking with Intel? (I've heard some pretty good stuff about graphics/rendering speed with the AMD thread ripper, but I think Intel also came out with a similar chip recently (possibly 8 core, not 6)

Herrz

prebuild pcs is the best option atm and avoid laptops !

Frank Celestino

Looks like vray is much like mental Ray in that they are both cpu based render engines. That means, more cores = faster rendering as they utilize multiple cores (similar to a GPU) to accomplish the rendering. Here is a good concise info resource: <a href="https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Autodesk-Maya-165/Hardware-Recommendations" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Autodesk-Maya-165/Hardware-Recommendations</a>