Hi all,
I'm building a small render farm to speed up my architectural renders in Maxwell.
The idea was to make it home-worthy, so fairly quiet is important and compact as possible without dealing with heat and noise issues. I wanted to avoid stacking mini-towers in my closet so heres what I came up with....
CPU--AMD Phenom II X4 920 $150
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MoBo--ASUS 780G MATX AMD Motherboard $75
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Memory --CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 $130
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HD--Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 8MB $40
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Case--iStarUSA D-200 Black Steel 2U Rackmount $95
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PSU--CORSAIR CMPSU-450VX $70
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Heatsink--I need help on this, Something quiet that will fit in a 2u??~$30
Total cost per node = ~$600
I'd like to end up with about 10(2u) nodes total, housed the 20u rack like this one(something open and around 300$- .rackmountnet.com/steel-open-rack-post-p-239.html
My thoughts are to use XP pro 64bit as the OS and use Dr. que or Maxwell Renders que manager to handle the renders. Mabey start off with a couple nodes....check the performance and add more throughout the year.
Are these parts compatible? Will this work?
Thanks guys,