stayinwonderland Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Hi, Occasionally I just need one frame rendering that would normally take 12-24 hours but so far, ALL the render farms I've seen would cost the entire project budget just to render one or maybe two stills! Any tips on where to look? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piotrkowalczyk1 Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Hi try GarageFarm.Net, if you have a little bit more of rendering you can buy coupons on our site. They will give you some extra rendering for free. Visit http://www.4viz.eu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angiliaduan1 Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Have you tried Fox Render Farm yet? You can get $20 when register. Submit task via WEB.It has 2,000 servers, each has 2 Intel Xeon E5660 processors, 24-64GB RAM.And it has different competitive price schemes that best suit your needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stayinwonderland Posted November 5, 2012 Author Share Posted November 5, 2012 I think Fox Render Farm wins it. Very cheap. Only thing is, not the fastest in the world. If I have an 8 hour render, theirs will take about 3. Would be nice to have it done in minutes if it's just one frame. Thanks for the link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angiliaduan1 Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Glad to make a help. ^-^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amanbhargava Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Sorry to bring this topic up, but I'm going through the same situation as the OP right now. My options currently, are either Fox Render, or Rebusfarm. I just signed up for both of their trials about an hour ago, so I'll definitely give them both a chance. However, how much would it approximately cost to get my own little render farm? I'm talking about 8-10 render nodes, nothing too fancy. Apparently I've been told that I won't even need GPU's in the nodes, just CPU's and cooling systems will do. Is this true, and if it is, is it feasible? I ask because even though render farms like Fox seem like the way to go once you have finalized lighting and materials, but during the lighting process we tend to render a lot of single frames to check quality, which takes up quite a while, and I think having my own render farm will make the process more efficient. What do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario De Achadinha Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Hi Aman We just got a farm of 10 render nodes core I7 extremes get out renders in 20 mins or so depending, using all 10 per frame with dr. Cost about $23 000 and works well, our I.T company build t a custom solution for us. Not sure if people think that's pricey or reasonable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericadenny Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Hi, Why not just build one for your self as I did? This is a much cheaper option. There are a couple of company who sell render farm cases or small render farms. I bought mine from here: http://3drenderfarm.com They are selling cases and finished configs with 6 nodes. It worked out (depending on config) about £3-4000 for 6x i7 4770 nodes. It is quiet and working 24/7 like dream. Good website with a lot of information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoeyzhao1 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 we can render a 90s animation at 720x540 for $600, if you are interested, pm for more details Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zdravko Barisic Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 hi, why not just build one for your self as i did? This is a much cheaper option. There are a couple of company who sell render farm cases or small render farms. I bought mine from here: http://3drenderfarm.com they are selling cases and finished configs with 6 nodes. It worked out (depending on config) about £3-4000 for 6x i7 4770 nodes. It is quiet and working 24/7 like dream. good website with a lot of information. great info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numerobis Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 from 3drenderfarm.com: "If you overclock your CPU ... the life expectancy will be very short, especially on continuous operation, so the short-term benefit is not worth it." LOL ...what is "very short"? Only 10 years instead of 20? and ~6000€ for 6x 4770 non K with only 16GB and without OS? Really? Is this incl. or excl. VAT? The parts for one 4770 excl. the case are around 475€ w/o VAT ...x6 = 2850€ OK... it is cheaper than BOXX, but also without installation and for less than 6K € you can build 5 4930K with 32GB. And a 4970K (4GHz) incl. 32GB RAM, ASRock Z97 Pro4, Thermalright True Spirit, 620W PSU, 120GB Samsung EVO, Case and Win 7 Pro x64 will cost ~820€ but nice Helmer Reloaded... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hris Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 I was in very complicated moment with some project, and i found this: http://www.render4you.de/start.html This Guy (owner of http://www.render4you) helped me in every moment in my project. He spend over 6 hours at SKype to help me finish my 1200 frames animation. If some frames was lost because i made some mistake, he send me lost frames by Skype. He is real professional and cheap. I used C4D, 3D Max works too. On my 12 cores machine animation should take 280 hours - with render4you farm, animation was rendered in 8 hours It really works And user interface is soooo nice! Greetings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notamondayfan Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 http://www.3drenderfarm.com/store/p5/PERFORMANCE_MODULAR_CREATION_RENDER_FARM.html This doesn't look bad to be to be honest, the price reflects the fact it's all ready to go, and very nicely made. I have 1 render node, very similar CPU as above, and that was around £600 (inc Windows though) http://www.deanpunchard.co.uk/mini-itx-render-node-build/ I would always favour a local farm over external, but I guess it depends how much rendering you're doing. Also I find the time involved in uploading and preparing files for renderfarms can be a lot, and not to mention if there are amends or mistakes to take care of later. Another option could be to look at cloud rendering, using Amazon EC2? I have no experience of this, but a friend of mine uses it for rendering. All you do is setup a virtual PC, and then just pay for it when you need it. Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcoombes Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 I undertook this, http://www.helmer-air.com/ and it's actually pretty simple. I'd never built a computer before or even tinkered with electronics, so if I can do it then anyone can. The hardest part was cutting the holes in the cabinet. Here's what it looks like - http://forum.vrayforc4d.com/threads/render-nodes-performance-cost-considerations.15250/page-2#post-114995 . It's now up to 5 nodes (or 'drawers' as I like to call them). I just buy more when I need them/have spare cash. It all works fine, just switch on and hit DR on vray. Each node costs about NZ$900/GBP450. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupaz Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Hi, Occasionally I just need one frame rendering that would normally take 12-24 hours but so far, ALL the render farms I've seen would cost the entire project budget just to render one or maybe two stills! Any tips on where to look? I have this same question (note it's a couple or three years after the original post). Any recommendations from users (not from render farm owners please)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artmaknev Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Saw some talk about Helmer renderfarm, so just bumping up this thread Here is a cutting free solution to Helmer setup http://www.renderpockets.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihabkalache Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 I am hoping they solved the cooling problems associated with the Helmer...If they did I want two!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azeemjaved Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 how about renting out 5 dual xeon nodes for rendering 24 hours for $100 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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