richmondlu Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 I have the oppertunity to get anything I want, in a fast rendering computer and was going to ask you guys to get your knowledge of this. We are looking in a single tower PC so what is the most render power I can fit in a basic housing tower. I dont keep up on the new stuff because it changes every week so. I you guys could help me out a bit that would be great. $$ not really an issue but keep it reasonable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 The most power you can get right now is a dual Xeon 5160 with a bunch of RAM and Windows 64, to run the 64-bit version of Maya 8. That would be the equivalent of at least 20GHz worth of Pentium 4. It's not really an overclocker system, and I've seen reports of Core 2 Extreme systems being taken above 4GHz, which would be faster in some applications (but not in most rendering work) but would be a difficult thing to pull off and would require special cooling equipment. These Xeons are expensive so you may be able to get the same power for less money with multiple Core 2 Duo boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Wait for these... http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4253 8 cpu's in one box, that would be cool for rendering... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidR Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 If you can wait, Tom's shows ~100% increase in rendering power with the quad-core CPUs, like Manta said, otherwise I'd go with AJ's suggestion. Btw, what happened to AMD's co-processor deal? It looks like it's farther off than it seemed 6 months ago. Too bad, as it sounds like it would cream the Intel quad-cores. The link has Intel quad benchmarks, incl. rendering. http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/10/four_cores_on_the_rampage/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandelbrotJr Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Well, if you want the best look no further http://www.boxxtech.com/Products/APEXX/apexx8_overview.asp That's a 16core machine, it should keep you busy for a while. The price tag is not so easy to digest, but hey, if money is no objection this is the best of the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richmondlu Posted September 23, 2006 Author Share Posted September 23, 2006 Well thanks guys..I will forward all the options on to our IT guy who is charge of building the monster! I can't wait!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinice Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 Well, if you want the best look no further http://www.boxxtech.com/Products/APEXX/apexx8_overview.asp That's a 16core machine, it should keep you busy for a while. The price tag is not so easy to digest, but hey, if money is no objection this is the best of the best. How much is it? Could not find the price on Boxx website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 So expensive they won't tell you on the web site, you need to contact their sales people. Last I saw anything about that they were in the $20-40k range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandelbrotJr Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 The price was in the press release, the base is about 20k, the full config is about 80K. We're talking about 16cores, 128GB RAM and 13TB HD. Of course, if you want just raw renderpower it would be much more cost effective to buy a 10K workstation and 35 2K rendernodes That machine is built to deal with 4K content and the like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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