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thanks agains for your answer Joel ! about Intel I've wondered a lot and made my decision a while back, but thanks for the input. About the O/C, so it would be 20% more money on parts for arround 10% more power in Ghz and big electric bill and quicker use of the parts because of stress ? doesn't seem like a good deal but maybe I get it wrong ? Also, if no O/C, is the stock ventirad ok for rendering ? PSU should be what I find in spare parts in the hacklab of my friends, like for the hard drives. feeling more confident about my choices and your options, thanks!!

Hey joel thanks for you rinput, I'm not really into used parts, and since I want to have 6 identical nodes it would be more complicated to find all the same pieces... and also I found cheaper new than used ... about updating the mobo and cooling it would be kinde of an investment of 20%up the price for each node if I get a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo and the Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 , but would it be worth it ? to how much could I O/C "without risk" ? And Intel will be too expensive for me... energy bill is "kinda" not the problem. About the RAM do you think 16go for rendering is toomuch ? or 12 could do it ? cheeerz

Hey there thanks for the quick and full of answers reply ! well I will go for the 4ghz octo then, with DDR3 and no O/C, about the ram how should I know how much I need ? I've red it's 2go per core or something like that but not sure ... i will mainly use it for C4D and AE about hard drive well I didn't know about IDE *oldschool* what i meant was more can I get the cheap stuff or do I really need something special ? I have friends in hacklab that have enough spare parts for sure, same for powersuply, all this to cut the cost, this will then be ~200€ per node so 10€(looking for the faires price though) is little but if I rent it 10 full days I have a new node or I can fixe broken stuff, the idea though is no to move it but use internet transfers ! cheerios !!

Hello World ! Planning on building my own 6 nodes renderfarm on the budget here And I have a few questions, I want to go with AMD FX series for the price, but I have few questions: - is it better 3.5ghz hexa (a bit cheaper) or 3.1ghz octo ? - and is it really worth pay enough more for a 4ghz octo ? - should I and can I overclock it ? with a microATX like the M5A78L and without changing the ventirad about the RAM do I really need 16Go per node ? or 12 or 8 is ok ? and is it important DDR2 or DDR3 ? and finally I plan on recycling old IDE hard drives, is it a bad thing ? exept power it should be all I need right ? Also I'm considering renting it to artists, 10euro for 12 hours seems legit ? if you have any opinion or exeprience feedbacks I'll be pleased to read them. cheeerios