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[Max] General Discussion / A question about licensing
« on: 2016-09-23, 08:56:27 »
I'm sorry if this has been answered or is in the wrong section.

We got a fairsaas license (with 5 render nodes) at work, so that I could evaluate Corona as a potential replacement of V-Ray for the whole group, and I installed the license server on one of our farm nodes (putting my login in the .txt file). What happens if I want to continue testing it at home and activate the license there, without the license server? Will the license server "lose" its activation and will all the render nodes stop functioning?

Thanks. It's working very well so far, there was no problem just replacing V-Ray.

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Hi Monkeybrother,
I suppose you've bought two xeon e5 2660 ? what motherboard you bought? and how much have you paid ?
Thanks

I bought two xeon 2670 (around 120usd with shipping). The motherboard is a Asus Z9PE-D8 WS, which is expensive, but I managed to find a pretty good price here in Sweden. I couldn't find any of the server motherboards, that would have cut the price on both the MB and the case a lot. The whole build went a bit over 900 euro, around 950 euro.

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I ordered my cpus from a hong kong seller. I had to wait a week for them to arrive, but they were well packaged and works like a charm. If you find a seller with good reputation, there shouldn't be any problems.

I bought a Fractal Design XL R2 case and put in two "Arctic Cooling F12 PWM CO 120mm" fans (since the fans that came with the case was 3-pin and couldn't be controlled by the MB, which uses 4-pin connectors) and used two Cooler Master Evo 212 for the cpus. The computer is almost completely silent even at full load.

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Hardware / Re: New hardware question
« on: 2016-07-26, 12:23:11 »
So I finally got the CPU's and put them in the case I'd already built while waiting. I've built a few computers now but I'm still pleasantly surprised when it just humms on and everything works. Thanks for the tip!

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Hardware / Re: New hardware question
« on: 2016-07-16, 19:46:27 »
So... I bought a couple of those used Xeon processors and started looking around for a motherboard. Is it socket 2011-3 I'm looking for? Edit: nope.

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Hardware / Re: New hardware question
« on: 2016-07-16, 19:10:41 »
Thanks both! I'll look into it.

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Hardware / New hardware question
« on: 2016-07-15, 10:45:36 »
Hi. Since I have a job with a good computer and a farm I've let my home computer gather dust, but now I need to do some rendering at home. We use V-Ray at work, but I played around with Corona alpha, like it much better and will buy a license for personal projects. My old computer has an i7 920 (2.67ghz), 12gb ram and some other stuff in a Fractal Design R5 case.

My question: Would it be better to upgrade this with a new motherboard, CPU, ram and cooling or is it worth keeping it as a render node and get a new budget PC with new components? What would be the best budget price/performance setup? Budget is $800-$1000 at most, more like "as cheap/good as possible".

Thanks!

edit: I know this has been asked before, but reading all the posts and trying to digest all the info is making my head hurt. Last time I build my own computer was 5 years or so ago, I'm completely out of the loop.

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