Hello!
We just got a big project that will require a lot of animation in the next 12 months or so. We want to build a small render farm.
My workstation is a threadripper 3990x 256 gb ram ( although I rarely use more than 32 GB for rendering) . I would like to get around 5X my current rendering capability. But now, I'm faced with a question I've never faced before. As building a rendering workstation is a relatively easy decision, but I'm finding building nodes is not as straightforward.
This is because the case, power supply, cooling, GPU, motherboard, storage and even ram scale with the number of nodes, so apparently the equation would lean towards minimizing the number of nodes, but at some point, the performance per dollar plummets so buying 4 3990x based systems might not be ideal.
I'm finding it hard to figure out what the absolute best strategy is.
Is there a currently accepted "best" node configuration?
Thanks :)