will a more powerful computer quicken B.A.T.'s rendering

[justinrpg]

I currently have 2.0GHZ dual core & 4GB ram... If I buy a computer say maybe with 8ghz dual (or maybe quad) or with say maybe 16GB ram, with that increase the speed that B.A.T renders the building... for the biggest that B.A.T allows me...= 1HR... will a better computer lower that time to a less time

[jmyers2043]

Have patience Obi Wan. I think I'd save the money and use it for better things.

[WC_EEND]

If I buy a computer say maybe with 8ghz dual (or maybe quad) or with say maybe 16GB ram...

8GHz CPU? I've never heard of that before, I thought a 3,2GHz stock clock speed was the maximum?

[peter007]

Well there's higher wc_eend, but not as high as you point out justinrpg. Isn't it RAM instead of Ghz?

[cogeo]

BAT-exporting is (apparently at least) a CPU-bound process. I see very little disk usage while exporting - and I guess it's just for loading (reading) the textures and writing the output file - which means that additional memory most certainly won't speed-up the process. So in general, the faster the processor and RAM, the quicker BATs will be exporting. I don't know if and how much the graphics card affects BAT exporting though.

But as far as I can remember, you had asked about BAT exporting in another post. Did you read my reply?

[Andreas]

faster CPU = faster rendering

However, gmax will only use one CPU core, if you want to make use of a dual or quad core CPU, you need another rendering program (I assume the newer version of 3D Studio Max are capable of this).

[callagrafx]

I assume the never version of 3D Studio Max are capable of this

and some  It's just a pity that BAT4Max can't use network rendering...