Hi!
I'm currently using the Octane Demo on my PC with the following configuration:
Intel Core2Duo E8400 (2x3,0GHz)
2048 MB Ram
NVIDIA Geforce 8600 GT 256 MB Ram
Now I'm thinking about getting a new graphics card when I buy the Octane beta to have a better rendering speed. I read that GFX 470 and GFX 480 perform very well with Octane.
Today I asked a friend who deals with PC hardware and he said that my configuration with my processor and RAM was much too weak to use one of these big graphic cards. He told me there were some huge limitations caused by the frontside Bus of my processor so that these graphic cards wouldn't perform well on my system. So he told me to get a better PC with an i7 processor and more RAM Memory before considering to buy a huge graphics card. So to be honest, he really confused me.
Does somebody of you have experience with these components? I'm really interested if there's really no sense in buying a strong graphics card instead of updating my whole pc system.
Thanks for your help and advice!