I own a 3.2 GHz XP System with 2 GB DDR memory.
Scenes which used about 1.5 GB peak memory rendered about 3 - 4 times faster
as with 1 GB RAM only.
At least this is true with the scenes I used so far.
Since this is my "render only" machine, perhaps I can help you.

Norbert Kern




"armigus" <nomail@nomail> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I seems that I have created an image that my computer cannot render.  It
> requires more memory than my computer can address, even with a swap file.
> This is the second time this has happened--my computer croaked on my
> October 2001 entry and I still cannot render it.  I have a Barton 3200 XP
> with 1 GB DDR running under Win2K Pro SP4.
>
> Is there any resource that can be made available to the competition for
the
> purposes of creating images like these?
>
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