Specs for good rendering machine

Keeper said:
so maby get like 10 R5000 PC's - that should work good too...(Don't forget the RAM!!!)
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This was my first thought too, but I am not going to convince the guy who wants this machine to do it. :)

I really appreciate all the input guys. It really is very cool of you!
 
Ok, i'm willing to bet here that 10 stupid-ass R1600 PC's will knock the crap out of whatever pc you can build for R50,000, nevermind 10 x R5000 PC's

The PC Only Really needs:
- Cheap Case.
- Cheap Mobo with any onboard graphics card + LAN.
- CPU (Best bang for your buck CPU)
- 1-2GB RAM.
- Smallest Hard Drive you can go for.

So Decide how many PC's you wanna run, and devide it into R50,000 (eg 10PC's = 10 x R5000 PC's or 20PC's = 20 x R2500 PC's)

but generally, the more CPU's you got the better - Depends on how big you wanna go!
 
antowan said:
This was my first thought too, but I am not going to convince the guy who wants this machine to do it. :)
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Tell him this:

"Remember, if you click render and have only 1 PC, then that PC is gonna be offline for a few minutes/hours/days/weeks, depending on what you are rendering..."

Maybe get 2 PC's then, 1 for designing/rendering and another DEDICATED Renderer....

Or ask him

"Do you want an Uber PC, or do you wanna do what Pixar is doing?"

If he wants a cool PC, to play games on 1/3 of the time, get an uber PC. if he wants to render, build a render farm.
 
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Just be careful, if I remember correctly Maya needs a separate license for each render machine if you are rendering with Mental Ray.
 
Just remember: Many PCs = many OS licenses. What OS are you planning on using? Windows? For what has Maya been compiled? I'm guessing only Windows/OSX. Linux support?
 
dam said:
Just be careful, if I remember correctly Maya needs a separate license for each render machine if you are rendering with Mental Ray.
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True, but If he can afford maya, he can afford a few render-only licences as they are MUCH cheaper!

or you can use a plugin to do it (IIRC)
 
then again, if you really wanna blow your wad on 1 uber pc, maybe look here

Up to four Dual-Core or Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processors, 5100, 5200, 5300 or 5400 series (2 per node)
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SMS from Mr Render:

I need a full post production system. Baically its gonna do final renders at high def, 4k res renders most of the time.
 
QX6700RULZ said:
single frame or animation ?
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exactly what i was gonna ask.

i thought if he wants to spend R50 000, it's def gonna be for animation - you don't need that much for single renders - get 1 uber "design pc" with the best quadro you can buy (and a good cpu, ofcourse), and another to "Render PC", with the best cpu u can buy. with 50k you can even make it multicore!

or you can build 1 UBER, UBER PC, but he will have to stop designing when he wants to render. that's why 2 is better.
 
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That is why my design machines are E6600's at the minimum and quads for a farm, duals can always help with rendering if needed. Only hassle i have had is my designers add more and more detail so no matter how good the hardware they still manage to stuff it up :)
 
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