PC configuration advice, and how use PC as render farm next to a Mac?

[GerardNL]

After 30 years of using Macs, I am now considering switching to a PC.

The reason for this is that my current iMac from 2019, with an i9 processor at 3.6 GHz and 128 GB RAM, is not so fast with rendering. The latest Mac Studio with an M2 Ultra processor is expensive and, compared to a PC at half the price, less powerful.

I have configured a PC with the following specifications:

Processor: AMD RYZEN 9 7950X
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 Super
Motherboard: ASUS ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 64GB
Storage: Samsung 990 PRO 4TB

Is this configuration suitable for Cinema 4D and Corona Render?

I intend to continue using my iMac for most of my other programs, as I have many Apple products and am fully integrated into the Apple ecosystem. The iMac’s display is also very nice.

Ideally, I would like to continue working on the iMac and use the PC only for rendering.
Is it possible to use the PC as a render farm or do I have to use C4D Team Render?

[James Vella]

Not checking anything else, but just thought id say it might be worth matching your previous amount of ram (or more, maybe mac is 4gb more efficient ;D )

You may end up opening scenes that didnt parse long to wtf is going on real quick. Or just based on your current workflow etc..

[GerardNL]

Yesterday I received the new PC. I have to get used to Windows 11, the system feels a lot more unuser-friendly :-).  Anyway, I bought the computer because of its specifications.
The first rendering tests carried out with Cinema 4D and Corona. The PC is 4x faster!

Now I'm wondering if I use the iMac as a Team Render client whether I will achieve even more speed gains. So far, however, I get an error on the client after a few seconds "(Error) Render-Job failed: Rendering stopped because of an out-of-memory or unknown error"
Both computers are connected to the network with Ethernet.

I think there is enough memory. Anyone have an idea what's going wrong?

[masterzone]

You should verify if both machines has the same Cinema4D release (original) and Corona Render, or if some plugin is missing on the scene.
Usually if the network is speedy enough you shouldn't  get any error.

[Philw]

As @masterzone says - that error is usually a missing plugin on the TR client.

I think the advantages of adding a 4x slower machine (+ network overhead) might make it borderline pointless though. I guess you may see advantages on some very large, long render jobs.

[tatarka]

There's a new one coming out in a few weeks.. AMD RYZEN 9 9950X