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Hardware / Re: Render Farm

« on: 2019-04-08, 17:02:08 »

I`m thinking about buying like 10x i9 9900k - z370 - 4x8gb 2666mhz - ssd 240gb - cx550
I was looking for the xeon 4114, but it`s very hard to find to buy here and the motherboard is too expensive

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Hardware / Render Farm

« on: 2019-04-04, 18:17:39 »

Hi community ! About 2 years ago, we switched from vray to corona and now it`s our main renderer.
We have some PC`s with core i7 4gen and some PC`s with dual xeon E5 2670, each one of them with 32gb of ram and gtx 780.
All of these computers are being used for modelling, rendering, post processing, etc.
We are now rendering some videos and we`re having high demand for projects. All of our final images are rendered in 4500 resolution and videos in 1080p.
We are thinking about building a small render farm, so we can use our PC`s for small resolution renders and let the final images/videos render in the farm.
Can someone with experience with it, tell me if its hard to do this and if it the results are good ?
What are the best builds ? Since corona is cpu based, we could buy cheap gpu`s only to have video ? Should they have 32gb or 64gb of ram ? Is core i9 9900 enough or should we buy xeon`s ? Or maybe ryzen ? We need to buy a special license for this or we can only install corona trial for DR ?

Thanks for the attention !