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Fibonacci:
Well I think your right with the consumetions.
The last time when I looked around in the hardwear market, that was 2 years ago.  Mine Dell Precision was for me the best choice and the power management is really low. I'm mean not killing my budget at all! :D

Of course more procs more consumetion...But, you have to get idea...which is the most important.

Trust me if you want...Buy an refurbised Dell if you need an mean stuff for modeling, texturing, rendering ...and you'll be so happy ! Or...you must to tikk-takk in your mind...and you will make an mistaken with something wrong choice. It's up to only your budget...

Sorry pal, this is just my opininon.   

elindell:
I used http://pcpartpicker.com/ when building my last pc,
it keeps an updated list of most market products with price/links to online stores (which you can filter by), and as you add parts to your list it shows other parts that are compatible so you don't end up buying a chip incompatible with the motherboard or something, really saved me a lot of time.

edit also no on the mac, does 3ds max even have a mac version?

Fibonacci:
Mac ? Forget the max on that...For the Maya, ZBrush, CD4 and others has on the mac.

juang3d:
Fibonacci you can install windows natively in a mac along with OSx, so no problem with Max :)

Cheers.

hglr123:
I think that you should go with 2x Xeon config - at the end it will be a cheaper solution than 2 or 3 separate machines with i7 CPU's. And you need a custom rig, not branded one (brands are expensive as ...).

I just bought a new machine for rendering (to refresh a bit my old render farm) -> 2x E5 2620 v2 (and there are v3 already), 32 GB ECC RAM, 512GB + 128GB SSD's, 1.3kW PSU, Supermicro motherboard (without case and GPU, I already have them) - this costs me 2k in Euro. If you add GPU - the machine is ready to be a main workstation, or without GPU - as a render node. Cheaper and faster than 2 separate i7 render nodes.
And more efficient in maintenance for hardware and software terms.

Render speed is x3 faster than my old i7 2600K custom rig.

Just my 2 cents :)

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