krimson2580 Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 Andrew, Does this mean distributed bucket rendering is best for a still image and backburner is best for animations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 Yes. Distributed buckets will allow more than one computer to work on the same frame at once, whereas Backburner is better for assigning sequential frames to different computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mzex Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 Thanks Andrew and Marko! Marko, I'm planning to use a AOpen H340A - Desktop - 1x 5,25"extern - 1x 3,5" extern - 1x 3,5" intern - µATX – Black as a case. You think that cooler can fit in it? that cooler is 17 centimeters high, so your case should be around 20 cm wide. you have to count for cooler high and motherboard thickness. If you can't feet that cooler inside it you can go with one of this: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/scythe-ninja3_5.html#sect0 scythe mugen 2 or ninja 3. those are cheaper, and very closely considering efficiency. explore tha site and you will find a lot of good informations on cooling: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/?page=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danb4026 Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 I checked out the render node parts listed on 3datstech.com and that runs you over $5,000 with dual 6 core processors. How would the performance of the $500 render node compare if using the Sandy Bridge CPU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 Yeah, this month I didn't have time to do additional render nodes. Basically, if you get Sandy Bridge nodes you're trading space and admin time to get more power per dollar, but I haven't got detailed numbers on that yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kris McIsaac Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 I did some quick tests a while back and Distributed buckets was not worth it until you had at least 3 machines rendering 1xWS and 2x nodes and it is proportionally better with 4 machines. There is a bit of time wasted in translation but it is a very easy system to set up. I just received a loan Z800 from HP with dual 6core Xeons and 24gb ram and it is rendering frames at 1minute. When I was rendering the same frames on 3x Z400 with quad Xeons it was taking about 1 minute. Same number of cores and similar render times. The 3 Z400's cost about $6k and the Z800 is about $12k (but does have dual quadro 4000's). Not sure where my story is going but thought I would share anyway. Obviously if it is just render nodes you want you would not buy HP workstations anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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