windows 7 - which version

[stevesideas]

Hi guys. I'm upgrading 4 of my render nodes to windows 7 from XP as it runs a lot faster. I was wondering if you think windows 7 64bit home premium (which is half the cost of pro) is enough for a render node ? Any advice appreciated

[stevesideas]

I just checked this page...looks like it might be okay: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/w...mpare#T1=tab01

Could do with some hands on experience if possible though.

[cheerioboy]

Home Premium has a 16gb RAM limit

[Morne]

And just double check if it can connect to your network domain. Those lower end versions usally can only connect to a workgroup, not a domain

[dlparisi]

It's relatively minor but I have 1 windows 7 home machine that I use as a DR node (the rest are xp) and the vray spawner refuses to launch unless I right click on it and run it as administrator. It runs everything fine otherwise. It's not too big of a deal but it just means that every time I start it up I have to VNC into it and manually start the spawner instead of it automatically launching at startup. There's probably a way around this and maybe something's set up incorrectly but I thought I'd chime in.

PS. I'm also running in a workgroup not a domain.

[stevesideas]

Thanks for the feedback. The whole logging into each machine seems like a real pain, plus the 16gb limit isn't great. I think I may go with pro to be on the safe side. Amazon seems to be the best price at the moment.