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briand wrote on 5/30/2002, 4:10 PM
Depending on your system, the bottleneck will *either* be the CPU or the HD. It would be pretty easy to demonstrate either case. If you really wanted to find out, you could probably setup a couple test cases, like a 1G wav loading and saving with zero effects and no change in format, and see how long that takes. That would be a measure of how your drive is bottlenecking. Compare that to how long an effect filled render of the same length takes, and you'll have a better feel for how your CPU is impacting the process.
stakeoutstudios wrote on 6/1/2002, 6:22 AM
mmm, time to buy a solid state hard disk... then it'll only really be waiting for CPU! shame the solid state hard disks are so expensive at the moment.

Still, money permitting...
Rahl wrote on 6/2/2002, 10:21 AM
In my opinion, it's a combination of them all.

But if you take an Apple computer, which is inferior in CPU MHz speed, but still manages to out perform PC when it comes to rendering. Taking that into consideration, then CPU bus speed can also be a factor.

It's a tough question, if I have time today, I will do a-little research on the subject and post my findings later in the day or early tomorrow morning.

-André Barriault
PipelineAudio wrote on 6/22/2003, 2:33 AM
bump, this seems to be totally at random, sometimes fast sometimes slow, nearly empty defragged HD, same number of tracks, same file length same sample rtate, same bit depth
Geoff_Wood wrote on 6/22/2003, 8:46 PM
Rahl, how can you compare PC/Mac rendering with different software ?!!

Pipe - check what superflous processes you have running.

How about an idea of what speed you rendering is of say, 10 tracks with a few (specified) plugins to whatever format. Then we can compare notes, so to speak.


geoff
PipelineAudio wrote on 6/23/2003, 2:36 AM
ok I ressurected this post from the dead, but forgot to mention that only the *peak building* speed is having me perplexed...nothing extra running on my PC according to task manager
PeterVred wrote on 7/2/2003, 11:52 AM
I have upgraded my motherboard and processor 3 times,
each time going faster, .750, 1.5, then 1.833mhz.
My render speed has increased with each upgrade.
I have maintained the same DD Ram (512).