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Specs for good rendering machine
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killadoob
Honorary Master
Yup for sure, antowan do you think putting 2 velociraptors 300gb versions in raid would also be a good thing? i would imagine with raptors low seek time and raid config it would smash any other hard drive config.
GPU Rendering is Supported by using nVidia Gelato, Amaretto & Sorbetto Drivers.
If Viewport Rendering is of importance (Working on the machine) then I'd suggest blowing as much of that 50G's as you can on the best Quattro 3D GPU you can - they go up to R30 000 quite easilly. loads of ram is also important.
if you are talking about final/post rendering, rather spend the money and buy 20 x R2500 PC's, and start your own Rendering Farm, in a Network Setup.
If Viewport Rendering is of importance (Working on the machine) then I'd suggest blowing as much of that 50G's as you can on the best Quattro 3D GPU you can - they go up to R30 000 quite easilly. loads of ram is also important.
if you are talking about final/post rendering, rather spend the money and buy 20 x R2500 PC's, and start your own Rendering Farm, in a Network Setup.
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
@ antowan - you can have a look here on http://www.tc-rtc.co.uk/ and see what the other people use, and take things from there.
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Raytraced pics 
just make sure you buy one of these babies:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_11761.html
and maybe one of these:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_s1070.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_11761.html
and maybe one of these:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_s1070.html
dam
Senior Member
Drives wont help with rendering, cpu is the bottle neck.
Keeper has good advice regarding the render farm, only drawback is that 20 machines uses up a lot of space and generates a lot of heat.
The_Techie
Resident Techie
Well, if you can afford a Skulltrail system... 
QX6700RULZ
Expert Member
I had the same hassle with 3ds Max final rendering, so now all my workstations have a minimum of an E6600 (3 gig ram) and 4 Quads for my render farm. Others can all join in and netrender if needed but generally the Quads with 8gig ram each do pretty well
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
What about a 33MHz 386DX with 387 maths coprocessor? 
dam
Senior Member
Interesting. Haven't even gotten to storage yet.
Raptors would be a waste of money because fast hard drives don't help with rendering speed. Rather spend that money on processing power and ram.
Final.
Raptor drives (Raid) and a GTX280 and soft mod (Use Quadro Drivers) it to a Quadro
I would do that.
Nooooo....
a GTX280 is for games man, Quadro drivers aint gonna do jack!
Ive tried rendering in 3Dsmax with nVidia's Amaretto Drivers and it is specifically supported on Quadro Cards only.
Also, Raptors would be a waste of money, you need loads of money to pay for the Quadro's!
So, like I asked before, Final Rendering or Realtime/Viewport Rendering???
QX6700RULZ
Expert Member
He said final rendering
Then buy a lot of mid-range PC's and upgrade them with RAM (Cause ram's cheap...)
Don't waste your money on one or two OVERPRICED Lightning PC's, rather get many, many cases (remember, with no screens) and network them all.
Think of it this way, one HUGE ass guy might be strong to pick up a Car, barely, but with 20-30 Smaller Oaks it will be peanuts - same with rendering.
Remeber, the newer technology is always waaaaaay overpriced for what it's really worth, so you don't get the power of 20 PC's if you spend it all in one Single-PC-Super-setup...
Also a thing to remember - will you be able to have enough power to run 20 PC's? average house, I don't think so....
so maby get like 10 R5000 PC's - that should work good too...(Don't forget the RAM!!!)
Thanks so much!