Building a renderfarm - Follow up - Benchmarks

[cyrille32]

^ i have the same config, HT makes rendering faster,
ill post the exact delta later today as we have dual xeon 2.8 here with 2gigs of ram each, with and without hyperthreading enabled.

[arobbert]

2.8 Xeons are quite old when compaired to an Opteron 248. I've had mine for over a year. A more up to date Xeon system would use the 800 mhz bus with a 3.2 mgz processor. I have found HT provides a huge performance increase and run it on 3 dual Xeons with no problems. My 2.4 HT Xeons are significantly faster than my AMD MP2400. All systems use XP pro 2 gigs ram.

[THINKTANK]

I've got A DUAL AMD Opteron 250's, with 6gig ECC RAM 400mhz, I've researched into whats best intel or AMD, put it simple, AMD Is best for rendering/molding, ask Box technoloys, alienware, scotland electronics, all will say the same (BECAUSE THATS WHO I ASKED!) so well yea, AMD rules

Send the file over to me and I'll render it and give you a time