How about one of these bad boys?

[DanielBrew]

And IM + LC could be a realtime preview....

[dlparisi]

Extrapolating from the Benchmarking thread where the dual 275's were rending in about 3min 20 sec- this thing at 8-280's would render the test scene in about 45 seconds. Not realtime mind you, but pretty friggin' fast! A small renderfarm of 10 4200 x2's though would render in about 30 seconds with DR for about a third of the price

[jujubee]

However, it's more convenient this way. Lightcache would cruise. Plus that nice tan you can get from opening the side of the case.

[dlparisi]

Plus that nice tan you can get from opening the side of the case.

LOL ...It might go right through the case. Some lead shielding might be necessary.

[studioDIM]

Ahah, i'd LOVE a tan from my pc.
It'd sort many problems regarding my pale colour (CRT monitors don't tan, unfortunately )

A riser card? Just how many pins has it got to have? What's the bandwidth?
I hated risercards from the early times compaq (long live!) adopted it on early systems...
Incredible bottlenecks, they were...

re,
Lele

[DaForce]

imagine shelling out for 128GB of ram... LOL Would cost as much as the machine.. LOL
And what sort of mega scene would need 128gb of ram..mmm makes you wonder.

Crazyness....

[RErender]

For my dream system I priced out 8 GB per proc. = $15,799

[DaForce]

So by that calculation 128gb would be $63,196.. wow. hehe but who would EVER need that much RAM.

[RErender]

So by that calculation 128gb would be $63,196.. wow. hehe but who would EVER need that much RAM.

Yeah I was tring to be practical

I did splurge on the dual 4 drive scsi arrays and the sli 4400's here's the quote:

l Xi® MTower™ 2P64 Workstation (Base Configuration) $1,599.00
Upgrades And Options:

l 8 x AMD® Opteron™ 880 64Bit Dual Core (DC850) 2048KB Cache 8 Way HyperTransport™ Req.MoBo.Upg. $24,999.00
l 65536MB DDR 400MHz PC3200 Registered ECC Dual Rank Interleave req. 8 CPU $15,799.00
l 2 x nVidia® Quadro FX 4400 Genlock 512MB PCIe 2x DVI Dual Head SLI Capable $4,889.00
l 21" (20v) Viewsonic G225FB Perfect Flat CRT Black .20/25dp 2048x1536NI $389.00
l 21" (20v) Viewsonic G225FB Perfect Flat CRT Black .20/25dp 2048x1536NI $464.00
l 73GB 15000U3SCSI-320+MB29320 Adptec $619.00
l Optional 146GB 15000RPM U3SCSI-320 Seagate $1,279.00
l Optional 146GB 15000RPM U3SCSI-320 Seagate $1,279.00
l Optional 146GB 15000RPM U3SCSI-320 Seagate $1,279.00
l Optional 146GB 15000RPM U3SCSI-320 Seagate $1,279.00
l Optional 146GB 15000RPM U3SCSI-320 Seagate $1,279.00
l Optional 146GB 15000RPM U3SCSI-320 Seagate $1,279.00
l Optional 146GB 15000RPM U3SCSI-320 Seagate $1,279.00
l Optional 146GB 15000RPM U3SCSI-320 Seagate $1,279.00
l 2 x Adaptec 2200S SCSI320 Dual Channel Low Profile RAID 32MB Cache $635.00
l 5 Bays HotSwap Lockable SCA/U320 SCSI Module (takes 3x5 1/4 bays) $185.00
l CD-ROM 52x Speed ATAPI $0.00
l 1.44MB 3 1/2" Floppy Drive $0.00
l On Board Sound AC 97 Codec or accordingly to motherboard selected $0.00
l On board 1GB Ethernet (10/100/1000) on board LAN $0.00
l Logitech® Deluxe Black Windows Keyboard $0.00
l Logitech® MX™1000 Cordless Laser Mouse 5 Buttons $69.00
l Windows® 2003 Server (incl. 5 CAL licenses)CD-ROM w/Manual & COA $729.00
l Tyan® K8QW S4881G2NR+M4881 2xPCIe Octal CPU 2x(4+4+4+4) to 64/128GB 2x10/100/1GB Ethernet SATA RAID $2,899.00
l Power Supply conforming with selected case $0.00
l Standard Xi Warranty One Year on System, Mfg. on Monitor $0.00
l Xi NetRAIDer Lock+Wheel, 21bays, Dual Redundant 600W UL PS (supp. Quad/Oct.CPU) $899.00

[DaForce]

That would be one MEAN computer... not to mention disturbingly heavy.
My current machine weighs in at 22kg which is pretty heavy as far as im converned. That thing would be easily 30-40kg i reckon.

[Da_elf]

i believe owning 10 of those to use for DR could possibly bring me to orgasm

(this message got posted in the wrong post darn)

[DaForce]

LOL yeah thats what i thought... hahaha

But still.. my reply