I’m thinking of assembling a new rig, so far i’ve mostly worked on single cpu machines, which i used to overclock, but nothing too extreme. I was looking at brand names, like dell or boxx, but other than the basics, it seems like you’re paying a premium for the stuff that you don’t really need. Lik…

But for the for the price of 1 dual XEON system, can’t you probably get 2 maybe 3 i7’ pc’s that will together kick the XEON’s butt?

Also actually, i may lack space to house 3 machines.

Heya I guess u need workstation render farm… Now there are good news and bad news and it depends if u want to get ur hands dirt… Good news is u can get EVGA SR 2 - + 2x 6core xeon and OC the heck out of it to 4.5ghz The bad news is that the new EVGA SR X is useless for the moment because INTEL f…

Recently I’m considering SuperMicro rack-mount server such as http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5017/SYS-5017C-MF.cfm as small render farm. The renderfarm will be using E3-1270 which is reasonably in price (price of i7-2600k!) and have almost identical performance as i7-2700k (before ove…

Dadal, you do that? Any chance to see your setup?

I have placed order SuperMicro SC813TQ-520C for storage server. If good will consider to go for 2U Twins solution. What about you Dusan Bosnjak?

About 1,595.39usd with 2x WD RE4 2TB, 8GB RAM.

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Dariusz_Makowski_Dadal April 18, 2012, 11:22am 7

I say go get desktop PC overclock it, jank it in to RACK and enjoy. Ull get more and cheaper power in rack. / U cant OC E5 xeons

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