Ernest Burden III Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Thats nearly twice what I spent on my current 78 bucket setup... yeah, well ... 16 cores/32 threads it says: http://www.boxxtech.com/Products/3dboxx-8950 $16K And maybe I'll get a (used) Mini instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 yeah, well ... 16 cores/32 threads it says: http://www.boxxtech.com/Products/3dboxx-8950 $16K And maybe I'll get a (used) Mini instead. I actually think that configurator spits out $18488.00 as the cheapest '32 bucketeer' machine. So you could get a (new) machined aluminium cupholder in the (used) mini cooper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic H Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 wow 18k LOL get mac air for the entire family and block for that we recently got 3 x dual 8 core 3.1gz xeons E5-2687W 64gb RAM, windows, server MB, build, installation etc for around 7k AUD each.... they dont have GPUs though so add another grand or so for that and a better HDD. just cant justify boxx TBH...in australia we can barely even get them. have to buy from sydney distributor, they dont bother replying for 3 weeks, they dont have online prices available. basically i think they are a scam. if getting an off the shelf i would go for one of the HP workstations - had good experiences with them. /bucket rant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hunt Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Second the HP workstations, we have the Z800 dual xeons, only I hate the crappy quatro it ships with. For the farm we have got shuttles which work great and have a nice small footprint, especially when they are stacked on top of each other. jhv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyderSK Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 (edited) wow 18k LOL get mac air for the entire family and block for that we recently got 3 x dual 8 core 3.1gz xeons E5-2687W 64gb RAM, windows, server MB, build, installation etc for around 7k AUD each.... they dont have GPUs though so add another grand or so for that and a better HDD. just cant justify boxx TBH...in australia we can barely even get them. have to buy from sydney distributor, they dont bother replying for 3 weeks, they dont have online prices available. basically i think they are a scam. if getting an off the shelf i would go for one of the HP workstations - had good experiences with them. /bucket rant Indeed, It lists "Dual Xeon (2.0GHz) CPU 16GB DDR3-1600 NVIDIA Quadro 600 500GB SATA Hard Drive 20X Dual Layer DVD RW MS Windows 7 Pro" for 16k, which altogether costs slightly higher than 2000 euros here. I bought very similar workstation to yours, although just E5-2670 (couldn't justify that additional price...), 64 ECC ram, K4000, FractalXL, 800W Corsair, 256 GB SSD, and after tax retract (I am company) it cost me 3600 euros. That's how low you can get with self-built if you buy from whole-sale. Thanks to that, I also got 3-year warranty on each component. If I was in retail, I would opt for whole-sale HP or Dell. Edited May 29, 2013 by RyderSK typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fooch Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Dell has been a slight pain for us. Prob just a bad sales person that was assigned to our business account though. We got them to change the personal when we bought a fair bit of monitors recently. been good since. ditto on that. Indeed, It lists "Dual Xeon (2.0GHz) CPU 16GB DDR3-1600 NVIDIA Quadro 600 500GB SATA Hard Drive 20X Dual Layer DVD RW MS Windows 7 Pro" for 16k, which altogether costs slightly higher than 2000 euros here. I bought very similar workstation to yours, although just E5-2670 (couldn't justify that additional price...), 64 ECC ram, K4000, FractalXL, 800W Corsair, 256 GB SSD, and after tax retract (I am company) it cost me 3600 euros. That's how low you can get with self-built if you buy from whole-sale. Thanks to that, I also got 3-year warranty on each component. If I was in retail, I would opt for whole-sale HP or Dell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 (edited) This article on worlds fastest computers reminded me of this post... we have a long way to go. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/the-ten-fastest-supercomputers-on-the-planet-in-pictures/#image-10 Edited June 18, 2013 by Crazy Homeless Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimitris Tolios Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 Well, those data centers / super computers consume dozens of MWs of power. And probably the only thing related to buckets about them, is the "thousands of buckets" of coolant those need through the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
komyali Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 22 buckets, six core(12 threads), quad core (8threads), and dual core... Guys I hate you all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clanger Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 What happens if you've more buckets than pixels in the image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 I have doubled my buckets. Bought some nodes so Ive gone from 72 buckets to 144. Makes me happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 What happens if you've more buckets than pixels in the image? You should stop spending so much energy rendering web forum avatars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimitris Tolios Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 What happens if you've more buckets than pixels in the image? You've overspent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjaminbogaert Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 So this seems like a nice thread to ask my question. Currently i'm running a Asus Crosshair V forumula, and and AMD Vishera 8 core. Now I tried to look this up but these are 8 physical cores, so not hyper threated. Rendering wise is this better or would it be better in the near future to buy a 6 core with hyper threading? ( 12 cores = 12 buckets right? ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimitris Tolios Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Vishera with a decent o/c can match or even surpass a Sandy i7 quad, but has little to nothing to compare to a 6C Sandy which is "50% more processor". The gap will widen probably with the new, ivy bridge based s2011 hexacores that will be out before the end of the year. Now, if you want to "contain" your workflow in a single box with a single CPU, then there is nothing "faster" than a 6C intel i7. Only really expensive systems with 2x Xeons can be sufficiently faster than a middly overclocked 39xx CPU today. If you can work with render nodes and the 32GB ceiling for RAM suffices, probably the best bet (highest value) is a quad i7 workstation, and a number of 4C/8T intel or 8C vishera render nodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjaminbogaert Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Much appreciated! Its not so much if i want to contain anything, it all comes down to budget really . So guess i'l have a look at those new CPU's from Intel then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
komyali Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Much appreciated! Its not so much if i want to contain anything, it all comes down to budget really . So guess i'l have a look at those new CPU's from Intel then. GO! Buy more buckets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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