Improving the rendertime!

[whermsy]

Hi all,

I recently bought a new setup: 3770K @ 3.5ghz, 16GB, SSD. Build everything up from scratch, and been testing quite some models and sizes.
This setup will only be used for rendering consumer products mostly modelled in SW, not too heavy and complex. Compared to my old laptop this is an amazing performance, but I still want to reduce the rendering time. The renders will be printed on A3/A2 paper 300DPI, so it still takes an hour or two sometimes to render an image. And I will be making 1-5 renders a day for a few months.

Now I have thought of a few options I can do to reduce the time:

- Buy a new GPU, (at the moment I am using the HD4000 built in the 3770K)
- Buy a good cooler and OC my 3770K (with the stock cooler it doesn`t OC so well)
- Use a different program like Shot for the gpu+cpu based rendering

Can anyone confirm this?
I know KS3 is CPU based, but I have read that it still uses the GPU for rendering effects. Will this be of any value for me?

Greetings from Holland

[guest84672]

whermsy - the GPU will have no effects on your render speed. You may want to check your settings - this is where you can also significantly improve render times. Also max time may be a good option to see what you can get in a set amount of time.

[whermsy]

Thanks Tomas. Glad I did not spend my cash on a brand new GPU.

I`ve been looking more and more into the program, and I love how easy it is to set up a very decent animation. Though on my 3770K@4GHZ, 16GB, SSD I will spend 30 hours "render-babysitting" for a pretty simple 10 second animation of a lego-car@720p.

I now have the possibility to get a GTX580 pretty cheap, so I had this plan:

Buy the GTX580, and use KS3 to import Solidworks models. Set up the .bip files. Import in 3Dsmax. Use a GPU-based renderprogram to render an animation pretty quick, and use KS3 to CPU-based render at the same time a still large poster image.

Does anyone know if this is possible? I know some GPU-based renders use up 100% of the GPU, so you can`t navigate through windows, unless you have a second GPU. (which in my case would be the integrated non-CUDA HD4000 of my 3770K)

[guest84672]

A GPU based render program won't be any faster. You can probably optimize your settings and reduce render time significantly. How many frames are you rendering out?