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| Thanks for the report, Stephen. On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Stephen van Vuuren <stephen@sv2studios.com> wrote: > A few weeks ago, the AE workstation I use for my IMAX project died when the > CPU fan controller, CPU fan alarm and CPU thermal circuit all failed during > overnight render, frying CPU, RAM and mobo. But after an email to > supporters, over $2000 was raised in 19 hours. > > > > So, have a new box with Sandy Bridge-E with 64GB of RAM. I’ve edited prefs > to allow 6GB per core and have both CS5.5. and CS6 stably rendering with 6 > cores. I find OS needs 12 GB free. But this works and for my renders is a > huge difference in speed, as on my previous box with 24GB of RAM, even two > core MP render would cause AE to seize and drop MP. > > > > So if you have a render that’s failing to use MP – it appears you can push > AE to 6GB per core. I’ve also used 4GB per core on a couple of simple > projects. It’s also reliable in RAM previews. > > > > This is hard data on my belief that AE loves RAM per core more than it loves > # of cores. > > > > stephen van vuuren > > 336.202.4777 > > > > http://www.insaturnsrings.com/ > > http://www.sv2dcp.com/ > > http://www.sv2studios.com/ > > > > A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a > progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the > meaning, all that comes later. > > –Stanley Kubrick > > |
