Upgraded my desktop...
May. 11th, 2007 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carlfoxmartenWell, I upgraded my computer on Thursday by tripling the amount of memory in it, and it seems to run faster now.
Renders (at least the more complex or larger scenes) take about 10-15% less time to complete, and it doesn't thrash (techie talk for accessing the hard drive dozens of times a second) when I browsed the 'net during the render.
Next up would be doing the same thing for my laptop and replacing it's harddrive with a larger one.
(currently, it has a 20GB drive with WinXP and a Linux install on it, and I'm starting to feel the pinch as far as disk space goes. That and I'm using both OSes about equally and it's getting rather annoying trying to share data between them, so I need to change how it's set up.)
And another thing is that Win98 (the version of Windows I have installed on the desktop machine) doesn't seem to be fazed about having three quarters of a gig of memory installed.
I'd heard that Win98 doesn't like having somewhere around a gig of memory and would actually not boot up with more than that...
On another note, I should probably post a list of the webcomics I read so you can see some of my favourites... Not that you may like them, but I do, mostly...
Renders (at least the more complex or larger scenes) take about 10-15% less time to complete, and it doesn't thrash (techie talk for accessing the hard drive dozens of times a second) when I browsed the 'net during the render.
Next up would be doing the same thing for my laptop and replacing it's harddrive with a larger one.
(currently, it has a 20GB drive with WinXP and a Linux install on it, and I'm starting to feel the pinch as far as disk space goes. That and I'm using both OSes about equally and it's getting rather annoying trying to share data between them, so I need to change how it's set up.)
And another thing is that Win98 (the version of Windows I have installed on the desktop machine) doesn't seem to be fazed about having three quarters of a gig of memory installed.
I'd heard that Win98 doesn't like having somewhere around a gig of memory and would actually not boot up with more than that...
On another note, I should probably post a list of the webcomics I read so you can see some of my favourites... Not that you may like them, but I do, mostly...
