View Full Version : Home made render farm  07-07-2012, 06:37 PM
Hey everyone,  I'm looking into buying some parts to make very
stripped down render nodes (for mental ray in maya), except with
a lot of processing power! So I found this on NewEgg (http://www
.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.976993)
, and it looks like a good deal to me. Does anyone know if it
would be a good start; couldn't even one of these make a
noticeable difference in rendertime? I would also get a small
hard drive for Windows 7 and mental ray.  Right now I have a Mac
Pro 2X 2.8 GHz quad core CPUs. 14gb of RAM and about 4tb of
storage. I've tried using computers around the house but they
were not powerful enough to make up for the network overhead.
Although there is a big Apple logo on the side of my system, I
live in Windows 7 x64. I plan to use it as the master, sending
jobs around to the other nodes, while doing some rendering of
its own.  I realize I probably need more than this, like cooling
and enclosures/racks.