Hello Community Member, I have a several questions for anybody here that would kindly lend their assistance, opinions, and (hopefully) some factual evidence toward solving my dilemmas. I am currently in need of a dedicated render server to free up my work station for further work. My work station is current am Intel 2600k at 3.4GHz with 16GB of RAM. While this computer has and continues to work well it is limited for rendering more... intensive scenes and animations. It is not uncommon for a single frame render to take thirteen hours (advanced lighting, complex transparencies, ETC...) and animations taking thirty minutes or more per-frame even without GI. Needless to say, I am in need of an extensively more powerful and dedicated rendering machine. From Newegg, I am currently considering building myself either a dual Xeon or dual Opteron server for rendering. Now, the only problem I am having is decided on which platform to invest in for a dedicated render server. I am currently debating between the following: 1. 2x Opteron 6272 2.1GHz 16-Core 2. 2x Xeon E5645 2.4GHz 6-Core Now, my primary question to the kind people on these forums. Which setup would you recommend for the greatest rendering performance with Cinema 4D? If you can not in good conscious recommend either of the above platforms, than what would you recommend that is comparatively priced? Any and all assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Myflag
what i would be looking at is which option you could run on a motherboard with as many pci-e x16 slots as possible. so that in the future (or now if budget permits) you can add graphics cards for paralel processing.
Cinema 4D does not support GPU rendering. For now processing power must take precedence... though if the need for large scale GPU expansion is required in that would be a useful feature to have. Thank you, Myflag PS: The motherboards I am considering have a considerable number of slots for expansion.
If you are going for Graphics rendering I would recommend Investing in Graphics Cards and GPU rendering. It will be alot more bang for your buck.
