Still have to modify the afterburner plugin to work on my 5870 rev.2 and remove the shader

Wanted a soft reflection look to give the car a more deep personality. I don't like hard reflections as the paint turns into a reflective surface. Still have a long way to tweak the gloss amount but it'll have to do.

It's been a long time since I posted here. just finished up on a collaboration project me and my co-worker did on an Audi(I know not exactly lfs related). Finished setting up the studio setup on 3ds max 2011 single user license I got from my uncle who is one of the big shots down at the studio where i work part time. Rendered using V-Ray 1.5 SP5, gamma corrected in Photoshop CS4 and used mats and textures from an old audi project. Enjoy the view

(total render time: 8:27 on new i7 rig)
EDIT: Gonna use the studio setup to render an old fzr mid-poly someone posted long ago. Still have to finished organizing the materials and update some lights on the setup
EDIT2: total poly for the audi is 821,000 minus the stuff on the studio set.

Last edited by anik360, Fri, 14 May 2010 06:18.

Might wanna bump it down to 110. A friend of mine did a 116 on his mobo(while on something smokey) during an oc and had 2 WD caviar hdd's go pop. Considering about data safety is my only concern. Don't flame at Roadie or me though he's had lot more experience (me included as a minor) at overclocking and when things go bad it's not a good sight. Plus installing XP is a pain in the ass.

Hehe finally someone know who said it. I still agree the quote relates to real life oh and btw the pci-e clock is dangerously high. Why did you raise it?

It won't matter if he overclocks his cpu or not. If both are a bottleneck it WILLNOT matter if he overclocks his processor. Since both are slow he has to overclock both of them or get something better which The OP is not going to get. For example: My old pc with a q6600 and 8800gt on GTAIV. To test for bottlenecks I lowered the res to 1024x768 and lowered every detail. the fps difference between 1680x1050 and 1024x768 was 10 fps. I use my improvised rule of the thumb that both were bottlenecking. Not only gtaiv use cpu to render complex physics and gemetry but also uses massive amount of gpu mem to render textures. now on my new i7 860 rig with (newly stable) 3.6 ghz and 5870; when put through the same amount of tests the fps difference was noticable. 50-70 avg to 80-100 avg. bottleneck isn't a key issue there. So in conclusion if the OP wants a sufficient boost on fps both the cpu and the gpu will have to be overclocked thus putting more stress to the parts and judging by the knoledge not very informed about how voltages, multipliers and fsb works. Encouraging this will make his pc much less stable. Hope that helps


EDIT: Oh and one more thing if anyone brings a q about sli here; 512+512 does not = 1024. SLI and also CFX uses the vid mem. of ONE gpu, no additive thing going on here.

Last edited by anik360, Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:58.

Been half a week since I bought my new pc. Here is what I upgraded

old pc: (only gonna snatch one hdd)
Q6600 @2.81
P5k
4gb ddr2-800 ram(G.Skill)
XFX 8800gt (650/1690/1000)
2x1tb samsung spinpoint F3 (one going to new pc. Put both in when building but put one back because sis needed space)
2x250gb WD caviar
650w ocz modxtreme
Win 7 pro 64 bit (retail and got it free from uncle)
antec 900 case

new pc:

Core i7 860 @3.52 ghz
4gb DDR3-1600 G.Skill Ripjaws
Biostar T5XE-CFX-SLI (really good overclocker)
Sapphire Radeon 5870 Rev.2 on stock
1x500gb Spinpoint F3(Love the F3 series to bits)
1x1tb Spinpoint f3(from old pc)
Gelid Tranquillo HSF with 120mm fan
AZZA Solano 1000 (quiet and has low case temps thanks to the fans)
Silverstone Decathalon 650
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit(OEM,legit )

Last edited by anik360, Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:39.

Oh yeah!! yesterday and today was a blast. Went out with my buds playing handball and Basketball and played with my nephews in the park. Wish next week wont be as bad as the weatherman predicts.

/me thinks physics will be sh*t just like GRID

The shell theme or the rainmeter theme? The shell theme is Iohanna for win7 (deviantart) and the rainmeter one is something I mashed in from default and add-ons

EDIT: gah! J@TKO clean that desktop!!

Removed the weather plug-in.......it stopped working

The Deep and Lovely Quiet -SubtractiveLAD
In a mood for ambient chill-out mixes.

A little change here and there. The riot shield says police btw. (native Bengali speaker :P)

Or get the spinpoint f3 1tb (which I have) reviews say it's the fastest 1tb drive. Bought 2 and run on raid 1 for $89 each on newegg.

hardcore is nice but a bit harsh for my listening taste
oshi* double post

Pink Houses (Vox-Dub Edit) - Anjunabeats Vol.7 (just bought it )

Blur was a disappointment when I saw the nitro bits and the power-ups. Would be a fun arcade game if I was still 10 and liked driving like a tool

Cirrus- Oliver Smith (Anjunabeats Vol.6 Disc 2)

Quote from MadCat360 :

I am very jealous...

same here

Book of Eli, Sherlock Holmes and legion are the ones I saw within the weeks and love them oh and Zombieland on blu-ray is epic

DIY seq shifter is cheap and better than the crap logitech has. Put it in a housing. Add lever and mechanism and "borrow" the click switches from the logitech shift assembly and add longer wire and viola seq shifter.

Actually NASA has some really hires images that you might wanna take a look at. Some other site(s) you can find are interfacelift, Flikr etc. but searching is the key

A little more update. Satisfied now all I need to do next is install a proper theme to suit the desklets
EDIT: weirdly my tb drive doesn't show up

Haven't posted in forums a long time so gonna post my desktop. Still need to tweak rainmeter's theme