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Hardware / New budget Render-node: AMD epyc?
« on: 2023-04-20, 20:49:00 »
Hello,
we're working on a short movie(unfortunately not a short short, but a very long short movie) rendering with Arnold. Some years ago I purchased 3 render nodes bases on Juraj's great e5-2670 thread(Thanks a mill!). But today the 32 threads feel outdated and I began to swap them with e5-2695 and I got a fourth render node(serverrack with e5-2695 with 128RAM for 150 bucks :) -managed to get it into a fractal design define... 4 I think?).
Nonetheless: For a CU-Shot I'm facing render times like ~1hour/frame and I need some real support for my little 4 render buddies. I am looking at items like this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185233306187?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160811114145%26meid%3Db9083c2c421a4e60a00c3b073676c066%26pid%3D100667%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D2%26sd%3D185233306187%26itm%3D185233306187%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2351460%26brand%3DSupermicro&_trksid=p2351460.c100667.m2042
either from ebay/china or from a refurbished server seller. What do you think? My plan would be to find a good XXL-Case for that node and go either the water-cool or the air-cooling road.
Looking forward to your thoughts. Thank you.
we're working on a short movie(unfortunately not a short short, but a very long short movie) rendering with Arnold. Some years ago I purchased 3 render nodes bases on Juraj's great e5-2670 thread(Thanks a mill!). But today the 32 threads feel outdated and I began to swap them with e5-2695 and I got a fourth render node(serverrack with e5-2695 with 128RAM for 150 bucks :) -managed to get it into a fractal design define... 4 I think?).
Nonetheless: For a CU-Shot I'm facing render times like ~1hour/frame and I need some real support for my little 4 render buddies. I am looking at items like this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185233306187?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160811114145%26meid%3Db9083c2c421a4e60a00c3b073676c066%26pid%3D100667%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D2%26sd%3D185233306187%26itm%3D185233306187%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2351460%26brand%3DSupermicro&_trksid=p2351460.c100667.m2042
either from ebay/china or from a refurbished server seller. What do you think? My plan would be to find a good XXL-Case for that node and go either the water-cool or the air-cooling road.
Looking forward to your thoughts. Thank you.