Render farm hardware questions...revisited!

[olitech]

There must be hundreds of posts concerning this topic, but i can't find them.

We are looking for solutions to update/upgrade our current renderfarm of approx. 25-40 machines. Our solution has always been to 'get more machines'.

Does anyone out there have any experiences with prebuilt systems such as Boxx, Renderdrive, etc. (i'm totally guessing here).

Where is a good place to start this search?

(i apologize if this has been covered before...if it has...i need to find the threads)

Thanks in Advance!

[Erik N]

I cannot answer your question directly, but in our office we too are in the process of aquiring a renderfarm, and because of certain deals with Dell we are getting the dell Poweredge 1850 servers with 2xDualCoreXeons.

This brings me to a question that our IT-guys have asked me: Are there any known issues or pros and cons with running the Windows Server 2003 x64 (r2) OS with either backburner or vray (DR and network)?

[Da_elf]

renderdrive is something totally different. as for boxx i can speak from experience that they make a damned good computer. a daaaaamned good computer