Hi. I am not the best with electronics. So I am asking for some advice. I have a Sony Vaio laptop with an intel core i7 q740 1.73ghz , currently 4Gb of Ram, and my hard drive is a Hitachi HTS725050A9A360 (500GB), plus I have NVidia Gefore 310M with Cuda(whatever that means).
This is my problem. I will make a really cool animation that is 90 seconds long, and it will take over 400 hours to render it. Granted.. each frame has about 3/4s of a billion polygons. However.. I am rendering at a low resolution of 740X480, or something close to that. I plan on upgrading so I can render in HD. And if it takes 400+ hours to render 90 seconds at suck a low res. then it will take months to render in HD.
So, I was thinking that I can put in 8GB of RAM (my system will accept that). And I was thinking of swapping out the hard drive for a WD Blue HDD 1 TB SATA-600.
The terabyte sounds nice!
From what I heard, I can't swap out my graphics card, because its a laptop, and its probably soldered in there. That really sucks.. but I don't think its very great.
Will these upgrades be worth it?
Or is it a futile attempt because I can't change my graphics card?
Or will this be good?
And are there other things I can do to make it better?
Or... again.. am I being stupid?
I just don't know.
All I want to do is make some cool art, and I don't want to waste any more money being stupid. But I really don't have a budget.. so I am trying to make this computer work.
Any advice will be great.
And I apologize in advance for any stupidity that I may have already displayed.
Thanks.
This is my problem. I will make a really cool animation that is 90 seconds long, and it will take over 400 hours to render it. Granted.. each frame has about 3/4s of a billion polygons. However.. I am rendering at a low resolution of 740X480, or something close to that. I plan on upgrading so I can render in HD. And if it takes 400+ hours to render 90 seconds at suck a low res. then it will take months to render in HD.
So, I was thinking that I can put in 8GB of RAM (my system will accept that). And I was thinking of swapping out the hard drive for a WD Blue HDD 1 TB SATA-600.
The terabyte sounds nice!
From what I heard, I can't swap out my graphics card, because its a laptop, and its probably soldered in there. That really sucks.. but I don't think its very great.
Will these upgrades be worth it?
Or is it a futile attempt because I can't change my graphics card?
Or will this be good?
And are there other things I can do to make it better?
Or... again.. am I being stupid?
I just don't know.
All I want to do is make some cool art, and I don't want to waste any more money being stupid. But I really don't have a budget.. so I am trying to make this computer work.
Any advice will be great.
And I apologize in advance for any stupidity that I may have already displayed.
Thanks.
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