- Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:38 am
#346375
Hi,
I do fixed image renderings, but may get into multilite renderings animations in the near future. right now I have an older Pc on XP Pro that is my main workstation, but a new machine will become my main machine in coming months.
My recent rendering have a lot(relative term i guess ) of multi-lights- about 20-30.
Some of the MXIs get up to 7gigs.
I have just bought a machine with this build(which will become my main workstation). This machine handles the latest MXI's fine:
asus p8p67m-pro
intel 2600k
4x kingston pc1600 4go cas9= 16Go
noctua c14
GTX 560 1Go
SSD 120
2 x HD 1To(RAID)
windows7 pro 64bits.
I want to add a rendering node under Win7Pro64, and have some questions:
1.) do I need a lot of RAM on the node machine? how much?
2.) is RAID important to have on a node machine? What drive config would anyone suggest..
3.) I will use onboard graphics or very cheap graphics card- any reason not to?
4.) Any comments- critiques or observatiosn would be greatly appreciated!
Here are the main elements of the build I am thinking of:
asus p8p67m-pro
intel 2600k
G.Skill RipJaws X DDR3-1600 CL8 8Go (2x4Go)???
SCYTHE Mugen 2 RevB
windows7 pro 64bits.
Best regards-
Peter
I do fixed image renderings, but may get into multilite renderings animations in the near future. right now I have an older Pc on XP Pro that is my main workstation, but a new machine will become my main machine in coming months.
My recent rendering have a lot(relative term i guess ) of multi-lights- about 20-30.
Some of the MXIs get up to 7gigs.
I have just bought a machine with this build(which will become my main workstation). This machine handles the latest MXI's fine:
asus p8p67m-pro
intel 2600k
4x kingston pc1600 4go cas9= 16Go
noctua c14
GTX 560 1Go
SSD 120
2 x HD 1To(RAID)
windows7 pro 64bits.
I want to add a rendering node under Win7Pro64, and have some questions:
1.) do I need a lot of RAM on the node machine? how much?
2.) is RAID important to have on a node machine? What drive config would anyone suggest..
3.) I will use onboard graphics or very cheap graphics card- any reason not to?
4.) Any comments- critiques or observatiosn would be greatly appreciated!
Here are the main elements of the build I am thinking of:
asus p8p67m-pro
intel 2600k
G.Skill RipJaws X DDR3-1600 CL8 8Go (2x4Go)???
SCYTHE Mugen 2 RevB
windows7 pro 64bits.
Best regards-
Peter