Team Animation & CAD Workstation Issues

[Dan 1038]

Hey all,

We have decided to upgrade our hardware for the CAD and Animation teams this year and I have run into some issues with our initial test PC. Here is the build:

Intel Core i5 750 CPU
Gigabyte P55M-UD2 Motherboard
4GB DDR3 1033 memory
PNY NVidia Quadro FX380 Video
500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA Drive
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit

I have loaded both the 32 and 64 bit versions of 3dsMax on the machine and have some perplexing results on a render of a test scene from last year...

Old team PC - 2:28
New 64 bit - 0:58
New 32 bit - 0:29

Now, my question is why is the 64 bit version of 3dsMax 2X slower than the 32 bit version on a platform running a 64 bit OS and a 64 bit processor??? Think this is a Windows 7 issue or am I missing something? HELP!

Thanks,