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Rendering Farm info

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copeland3300

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I wanted to start building a render farm for myself, so i wanted to know how I should build this thing. Do you all think is more important for a render farm, a super fast CPU with 512MB of PC2100 or a relatively slow (2 - 2.4) with a ton of fast memory, like 2 gigs of PC3200.
 
While I do not operate computers at that level, it would very much depend on the type of rendering you are doing. If there is alot of data I/O, such as 3d animation, more RAM running at higher bus speeds would more helpful. Repetative number crunching like Folding is more helped by the CPU speed.

While I am not sure of the scale of your project, if it involves purchasing more than a couple of machines, some hard core testing and benchmarking would be well worth the time and money.

If space is at a premium, higher end systems are necessary. But you can save hundreds of dollars per box, and be able to buy more systems if you take a step or three back from the bleeding edge of performance. 2, 2.4's gigers will smoke a single 3.0 gig system any day of the week. And the 2 slightly slower systems are more flexible and fault tolerant to boot.

What are you planning on rendering on your farm?

Anyway, good luck.

Don
 
it would be better to get the faster ram
ur not gonna need quite all that ram, maybe 1 gig of 3200 would do.
 
Thanks guys, I was also thinking that more memory would be better. I'm going to be doing serious 3d work, but I'm probably not going to be doing it till the summer.
 
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