Optimal system specs

[comical_wenger]

Hello,
Not sure if this is the right place to post it. But I have had some trobles with rendering in the past,.. mostly with mental ray,... it gets through say 90% and then crashes. I am looking at building a new computer, any suggestions on what specs I should be looking at to avoid this problem.
cheers, sam.

[loydg]

Definitely 64bit OS, lots of RAM and processors, and a beefy video card.

[trzmielak312845]

Most important rule: 2GB RAM for each single core.
12 cores means 24GB of RAM.

[enginyildiz421116]

Intel® Pentium® 4 1.4 GHz or equivalent AMD® processor with SSE2 technology*
2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
2 GB swap space (4 GB recommended)**
3 GB free hard drive space
Direct3D® 10 technology, Direct3D 9, or OpenGL-capable graphics card† (256 MB or higher video card memory, 1 GB or higher recommended)
Three-button mouse with mouse driver software