just a query...do any of you have a personal renderfarm set up, or know much about renderfarms?
just want to know how much of a performance i could expect by hooking together the following computers for rendering:
(would just like to know if it is a worthy exercise when it comes to rendering out my demoreel)
1)dual 2.2 athlon mps
2)1.4 athlon
3)700
ERhm, well I'm pretty peeved off that I only have a 433, but still.
If you want a render farm computer check what this guy has done: http://gollum.flipcode.com/farmshots.shtml
The more PCs you use to render stuff, the better, there won't be alot of wasted time with network data transfer, so if you had two same pcs, you'd probably get stuff done near twice as fast.
As a side note, I live at home so I, too, can afford multi-good PCs.
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quote:there won't be alot of wasted time with network data transfer.....you'd probably get stuff done near twice as fast.
thats all i wanted to know.if a renderfarm was worth it with 3computers.
thank you-
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I have small renderfarm setup at our shack (office / crashpad) and we are setting up decent one at the moment.
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well, u wld obviously get a hell of a lot more performance, if u can.. then do it for sure, why render on a single/dual cpu when u can render with that much cpu power :)