Hi folks i've got a couple of hardware question for you. I have been offered a new workstation (woo hoo) and have been given a couple of choices from the IT manager.
Option 1: 1 Dell Precision 490-Dual Xeon 5130 (2.0GHz 1333Mhz,4MB). 4Gb ram, 750W-512Mb NVIDIA Quadro FX4500
Option 2: Keep my Dell OptiplexGX620 P4 3.0GHz. 4G Ram and add. 4/5 Dell Optiplex 745MT Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13MHzz/1066MHz machines with 2Gb Ram
We currently have a variety of Dell Optiplex machines around the office i use to Netrender through backburner at night but it can be a pain waiting for people to go home to start renders and for the big single frame renders i am struggeling. With option 2 the 5 Dual Core machines will be dedicated render slaves so i will be able to use DR for the single frames or use backburner for seperate frames.
Q1. Which option would you choose 1 flying machine or 5/6 (decent)work horses?
Q2. Does it matter what graphics card the slaves would have? my IT man seems to think the graphics card might be used in the processing. ( I don't)
Q3. Does anyone have any other suggestions Budget about £2500
I know it's a nice problem to have but I'm not that experience in hardware config so all advise is welcomed as i'll probably have to live with this choice for 2-3yrs.
Thanks in advance Greg
Option 1: 1 Dell Precision 490-Dual Xeon 5130 (2.0GHz 1333Mhz,4MB). 4Gb ram, 750W-512Mb NVIDIA Quadro FX4500
Option 2: Keep my Dell OptiplexGX620 P4 3.0GHz. 4G Ram and add. 4/5 Dell Optiplex 745MT Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13MHzz/1066MHz machines with 2Gb Ram
We currently have a variety of Dell Optiplex machines around the office i use to Netrender through backburner at night but it can be a pain waiting for people to go home to start renders and for the big single frame renders i am struggeling. With option 2 the 5 Dual Core machines will be dedicated render slaves so i will be able to use DR for the single frames or use backburner for seperate frames.
Q1. Which option would you choose 1 flying machine or 5/6 (decent)work horses?
Q2. Does it matter what graphics card the slaves would have? my IT man seems to think the graphics card might be used in the processing. ( I don't)
Q3. Does anyone have any other suggestions Budget about £2500
I know it's a nice problem to have but I'm not that experience in hardware config so all advise is welcomed as i'll probably have to live with this choice for 2-3yrs.
Thanks in advance Greg
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