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

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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