I forgot about the new figures. If they do better than the splendid V4, I will eat my hat and produce my credit card. Maybe. 

I agree with pjz about the dumb sequencing of multithreaded and its implications for a dumb render farm. What I mean is, with multiple cpu's assigned different buckets in a frame, if the faster cpu gets finished first, it just waits for the slow guys to get done with their sections, the next frame comes up and they all start again. I believe that is how multithreading currently operates. Dumb.

Not to mention: the render farm would be much more useful if the various computers could just work on their own frames, completely. That way if there is a failure, you just rerender the frame in question, as opposed to fallout buckets (or worse, slightly askew buckets) on hundreds of otherwise okay frames.

If they have addressed these issues and release a brilliant render farm implementation, I'll eat my hat and produce my CC. 

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