Dell PowerEdge r810

[cedricmasella]

Good day

 

I need some advice please. I am planning to get me a Dell PowerEdge R810 2nd hand and I want to use it as a render PC for 3d Max and Vray. There is only on board Graphic card. I work on one pc and would render on the Dell server. Would this work and can you render on the server knowing that the Graphic card is a very low spec? See link below.

 

https://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/pedge_r810_specsheet_en.pdf

 

Kind regards

Cedric

[jamesgallagher]

As long as you're doing CPU rendering and not GPU rendering is shouldn't make a difference.

[Francisco Penaloza]

Yes, James is correct, if all that you do is CPU rendering, you should be fine with any video card.

Having said that, unless you are getting that rack server for a very, very good deal. I would recommend you to take a look any builded AMD Ryze or Threadriper machine, you will get way more rendering power for a fraction of the cost of that DELL Rack.

 

That machine has too many features that you will never use.

[Josef Wienerroither]

If you get those generation of Dell servers from ebay, you really can make a good deal

 

eg. for $500 a 20/40 core machine ( 2 Xeons equipped , from a total of 4 sockets available... )

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Poweredge-R810-2x-Xeon-E7-4870-2-4ghz-10-Core-64gb-3x-146gb-H700-2xPSU-/232313959254

ONE of those Xeons still costs over $4,5k alone here: https://geizhals.eu/intel-xeon-e7-4870-bx80615e74870-a615501.html

 

CPU clock is a bit limited, but maybe you can find a higher clocked variant anywhere

[georgechianese]

I bought a poweredge r810. Have win 7 loaded on it. Have not been able to get max to run on it. Get msg, An error has occurred and the app will now close. Changed graphics to nitrous software with no luck.Did you get this to work?