Basic render server..

[alfienoakes]

Bit of advise please..!

 

I want to set up a machine purely for the task of rendering frames.. maybe animations or just stills, but basically multiple frames.

 

I have seen a machine with the following spec:

 

Quad Xeon 700Mhz Processors

 

- 1GB Memory

 

- 5 x Full Lenght PCI Slots

 

- 2 x 18GB SCSI Drives (Data Wiped)

 

- CDROM Drive and Floppy Drive

 

- Normal VGA,PS2,Serial, USB Ports etc

 

And I wanted to know if anyone had any advice on setting one of these up, and also if the above seemed like a good enough machine to churn out some frames.

 

If not, or if you have any experience of setting up a render farm / server, I would love to accept any adivce.

 

I have set up a render farm on a large network, but would quite like to do some thing that is stand alone now, and isn't reliant on everyone going home so I can steal their machines..!!

 

Many thanks.

 

Andy

[cH1ooo]

IMO:

1. instead of a quad xeon 700, u could easily go with a much better performance Dual core Dual Opteron...

 

2. 1GB memory is nothing these days... it seems the configurations that u got for this machine is a performance requirements from 2 years ago... u need at elast 3 GB if u're running Xp, and 4 GB or more if u're running 64-bit system...

 

3. full length PCI - again OLD....

 

there are many posts around that you can study and see what kinda systems ppl are using...

[alfienoakes]

Thanks Mandeep,

 

It is for offer for less than 100 quid, so I was wondering if it would be worth it just to crunch a few frames while it sat there..!

 

Rather than spending a huge amount on an up to date server, thought I may give it a go for the short term..

 

Andy