Dear friends ,
this question is for those of you , who understand the " Hardware needs " of the 3d animation/rendering at a professional level in today's era .
currently , we own a system ,
core i7 , 990x
32 gig RAM
gtx 680 x 2
rampage 4 extreme MOBO
it is among the TOP configurations , that a person can own in a single desktop unit ,
BUT , the thing is , that even this system , which happens to be a gamer's dream pc , is NOT able to take the extremely heavy workload , and the render timings for a 50 minute file are reaching as long as 20 hours . ( of course there is a lot of 3D work in there )
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so we have decided to take things to a next level ,
and we have 2 options .
1. go for a XEON work station , with
2 x XEON E5 2687w processors , a total of 16 cores , with 20MB cache per unit . 4000$
64 GB RAM 800$
NVIDEA QUADRO 6000 5000$
these along with other items and coolings would easily cost around 12000$
now thats a lot of money ..... for a single system ...
2. WE BUILD A RENDERING FARM
now we can put together 10 core i5 systems ,
make one as a server , join them , and then utilize all their computing power simultaneously .
and this setup would cost no more 8000$ with all systems running a 680 GPU .
now my QUESTION IS ,
which among the two setups would do the job faster ,
i have never laid my eyes on a rendering farm , nor have got the opportunity to take a look and observe its performance for comparison , and happen to know nothing about it .
so what would be a better deal ?
A. to join together a number of smaller systems ?
B. keep ONE machine and the most powerful and run it as a single unit .
the disadvantage in a farm are obviously its electrical consumption , and maintenance . hence the 4000$ difference is evened out .
my question is , that if one has to shed a 10.000 $ , for building a BLAZING FAST SETUP with a LOT of processing power ,
which one is better and more value for money ?
a single system , or a rendering farm ?
which one would prove to be more powerful , and offer a better price to performance ratio .
this question is for those of you , who understand the " Hardware needs " of the 3d animation/rendering at a professional level in today's era .
currently , we own a system ,
core i7 , 990x
32 gig RAM
gtx 680 x 2
rampage 4 extreme MOBO
it is among the TOP configurations , that a person can own in a single desktop unit ,
BUT , the thing is , that even this system , which happens to be a gamer's dream pc , is NOT able to take the extremely heavy workload , and the render timings for a 50 minute file are reaching as long as 20 hours . ( of course there is a lot of 3D work in there )
__________________________________________________ _______________________________
so we have decided to take things to a next level ,
and we have 2 options .
1. go for a XEON work station , with
2 x XEON E5 2687w processors , a total of 16 cores , with 20MB cache per unit . 4000$
64 GB RAM 800$
NVIDEA QUADRO 6000 5000$
these along with other items and coolings would easily cost around 12000$
now thats a lot of money ..... for a single system ...
2. WE BUILD A RENDERING FARM
now we can put together 10 core i5 systems ,
make one as a server , join them , and then utilize all their computing power simultaneously .
and this setup would cost no more 8000$ with all systems running a 680 GPU .
now my QUESTION IS ,
which among the two setups would do the job faster ,
i have never laid my eyes on a rendering farm , nor have got the opportunity to take a look and observe its performance for comparison , and happen to know nothing about it .
so what would be a better deal ?
A. to join together a number of smaller systems ?
B. keep ONE machine and the most powerful and run it as a single unit .
the disadvantage in a farm are obviously its electrical consumption , and maintenance . hence the 4000$ difference is evened out .
my question is , that if one has to shed a 10.000 $ , for building a BLAZING FAST SETUP with a LOT of processing power ,
which one is better and more value for money ?
a single system , or a rendering farm ?
which one would prove to be more powerful , and offer a better price to performance ratio .