pickle Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 We are about to buy a render farm consisting of around 5 - 3.06ghz, 2GB DDR computers, which sounds like it would be pretty fast. Then a guy who supplies boxx systems said one of his renderboxx systems would be just as fast as 4-5 computers in a renderfarm, is he talking shit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 pickle, If you purchased an equivilant # of renderboxx nodes, then yes. http://www.boxxtech.com/ Their meant to be used in a rackmount, which is primarily used to conserve space...as well as allow for easy expandability in the future. As for a single node matching 5 computers...no . But 5 nodes matching 5 computers...sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickle Posted January 28, 2004 Author Share Posted January 28, 2004 cheers greg, thought it sounded a bit too good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 Pickle, I think he was just arguing that a single "rackmount array" would be equivilant. A single node is still just a single computer. Aka if you built a dual 2.8 xeon workstation, and compared it to a dual 2.8 xeon renderboxx 2U, they'd be "about" the same speed. (+/- a % or two). The rack is just nice cause it'll hold a slew of systems in one spot, very compactly. Performance wise each node is just as fast as if you build the whole machine seperately . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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