Is that for a 4200? Does it include the OS? I can’t buy the parts for that in the US.
You must be talking Pounds and not Euros.
Hi, yep, that’s in pounds and it’s for the 4.2ghz. The price does’nt include the OS, I always buy my OS’s from ebay, around £60 a go.
steve
hi mate - just wondered if you’d got your boxes yet and if so how are they working out for you?
Cheers.
I got the little beauties and they’re running like a dream, i’ve got them all overclocked by 5% to 2.31Ghz instead of 2.2 and i’ve had no trouble at all
with them.
The only trouble i did have was with the courier, intercity link, who lost 2 of the machines, so ACMW had to build some new ones for me.
What i have noticed is, correct me if i’m wrong, vray seems to count each core as an individual cpu in the amd’s but not in the hyperthreaded xeons, like this morning for example. I set a DR render going and initially i had the following machines assigned to it:
X2 4800 (2 cores) (2 buckets) (1 physical cpu) (vray server)
X2 4200 (2 cores) (2 buckets) (1 physical cpu)
X2 4200 (2 cores) (2 buckets) (1 physical cpu)
X2 4200 (2 cores) (2 buckets) (1 physical cpu)
X2 4200 (2 cores) (2 buckets) (1 physical cpu)
Dual Xeon 3.2 (2 cpu’s with hyperthreding) (4 buckets) (2 physical cpu)
Giving a total of 14 buckets, but the last 2 machines to join in the DR was unable render\rendered black (X2 4200’s). I kicked the dual xeon from the DR list and everything rendered fine.
So is the vray limit on DR 10 buckets rather than 10 physical cpu’s?
hope someone can answer me this.
cheers :o
steve
The DR limit per VRay license is 10 machines. Each machine could have quad processors and you’d still be able to use it. IE, 10 x 4 processors = 40 buckets 
I’d say your problem lies somewhere else.
-- DJ
quick note…4200 does NOT mean 4.2 GHz and is misinterpreted a lot. The actual operating freqency of this CPU is 2.2 GHz, but it was still a good buy so you’ve got every right to feel chuffed! 
HTH,
ME
I live in the belief that after 7 years or whatever its been since AMD have been marketing it that way, that people have actually work that stuff out!
But I am continually suprised 
I actually had to stop using my dual 2.8 xeon for DR renderings. The renders were slower if I used the zeon than if I render with just my other 5 amd’s. 3 3800’s 1 4200, 1 dual dual core 265 opteron. I have a gig network as well. Strange!
Tony
cheers for the replies chaps, i’ll give it another try this morning, see if i can work out whats going on.
tony can you tell us render times for the dual dual core 265 compared with the 4200.
can you also tell us how much they cost (just for comparison)
thanks
gili
Here is what I spent on the opteron system. No video card.
Window XP 64 bit $159.00
Antec TP2 559 w eps sli atx12v2.01 $87.00
4 gig Corsair TWINX2048RE $596.00
WD740GD 74GB 10,000PRM Raptor $167.00
Asus K8N-DL motherboard $255.00
2 - AMD Dual Opteron 265 $656.00
Shipping $40.00
$1960.00
The render time on the infamous benchmark scene.
Dual Opteron 265 - 3 min. 6.9 sec
X2 4200 - 5 min 15 sec.
This is using 1.48.03 vray version. Stock speed on both computers. Both running XP 64 bit with 4 gig of memory.
I can’t remember what the total cost for the 4200 was. I can’t find my damn receipt. Seems like it was around the same price back in June when I bought the parts.
I’m going to rma my motherboard on the opteron because I can’t OC the damn thing. If I could bump up the speed to 2200, same as the 4200, it would really scream.
if you want an overclockers board.. get the DFI.. the best for overclocking
assuming you know what your doing and you do it properly
lol i added 50% more mhz to a shitty Athlon64 3000+
assuming you know what your doing and you do it properly
That is something I’ve never claimed. :lol:
I’m getting errors during the boot process. Blue numbers on each boot screen.
75 on the first screen
8A on the second screen
96 on the third screen
I’ve taken everything off the board and reinstalled each component one at a time, but I still get the error code. I don’t know what they mean.
I’ll get with Asus and see what they say before I send it back.
HAHAHAH ok…
try looking on the Asus site or forums for what those errors mean. Might be worth while… basically it sounds like the board is screwed. Whatever you do dont tell them you overclocked… bye bye warranty