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(1.71 times faster than a few core i7's !)

Yep its a beast! Now I can not wait for my new i7 laptop with 16gb and a 1gb video card. I love the fact that management can see the benefit of having a fast machine.

Scott

Just a short introduction: "Hi everyone, I am Juergen from Germany and I am just rendering some Sketchup files for fun. I found a lot of inspiration so far on this forum and gallery and would be glad to get some help to get along sometime - just trying to learn as much as possible so far Here are my configurations..."

Thank you for this, Shura and Fletch!

My result is 2 mins 7s, HP laptop, Core Duo 2.4 GHz, 4G RAM.

A question: if i would use this lamp in big number in a heavy scene,
what should i change on it to get faster results?

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Pg09 wrote:Thank you for this, Shura and Fletch!

My result is 2 mins 7s, HP laptop, Core Duo 2.4 GHz, 4G RAM.

A question: if i would use this lamp in big number in a heavy scene,
what should i change on it to get faster results?

Good question!

1. If you zoom out in the scene, you will see the lamp is sitting in a photography studio. (the very same one that comes with the licensed user's components package)
   It has 3 lights that are not actually needed for the lamp to render.
2. If you look closely at the way the lighting is done in the lamp, there are two lights inside - a spot and an omni. The two are not necessary for the lamp to look good, but they help to make it look great! ...So just turn off the spot, and the other 3 lights in the studio, then re-render.
3. Or, turn off the omni, and play with the settings for the spot... for instance I may start by trying to set the hotspot for the spotlight to something like 160 and the falloff to 180... but this is just a starting point.
4. Finally, the brushed gold plate material takes a lot of time to render, I think, in comparison with all the other materials... so if you were to change that to a flat material, and you are not 'up close' to the lamp in your rendering, I don't think you would notice much of a difference in looks, but it would speed up render times on it.

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Hi Bob! fast machine. looks like you may have accidentally tweaked the camera before running the test, which will skew results. Can you maybe give it another shot?

Thanks Fletch!

Slightly near the top of the pack. 32s