Render Farms

[Guest Lester Masterson]

Just got a quick question on video cards for render farm machines.

 

These machines are not connected to a monitor and only render frames for stills and animation.

 

Does it matter if I have a 2Mb ATI or a 128Mb Wildcat?

 

I have combed the net for answers and have come up with nothing. Any help here would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

[plastic]

of course the video card is completely irrelevant for rendering.

onboard vga is the way to go for render-boxes.

i think its not possible to use no video card at all, at least with windows, or the computer wont boot.

[Guest Lester Masterson]

Thank You.

It is so frustrating trying to dig through comparisons (WildCAt vs. Quatro, etc.) and no on really tells you why you should be using them in the first place.

 

A few years ago our company bought a 3DLabs card for $2700. Two years later, my GeForce2 card was running circles around it.... for $219. If I didn't love this industry...I'd hate it! :angenone:

[Arkitec]

Lester,

 

Comical to see someone out there saying the same thing. Its been a couple years now but when I but my elsa gloria XL it was in the same neighborhood. But realistically the technology has advanced so much in the past 6-7 years. Its the price you pay. Its just to bad its as getting as bad as when you roll of the curb at a car dealer. $$$$

 

Arkitec

[David Knourek]

Hey Lester,

 

If you do need a video card in the render boxes you mite want to take a trip to your local USED pc store. I did just that last year and got 5 matrox millennium II cards for $10cdn each and they worked like a charm even being PCI cards.

 

Just a thought,

 

-dave