I will look foreward to hear of your experinces with your setup of a renderfarm

I've tried this: I had 2 single core, 2 quadcore and one Duo-core running as a renderfarm - they reduced the rendertime with a factor 16 on a render that took 24 hours on a duo core. All machines except the 2 single-core, which were labtops, had a frequenzy in the range 2000-2600 mHz. I've discovered that using IBL can make the renderfarm useless, because suddendly some of the machines recieve the data, but stops rendreing, even with a restrat of lightning on the respective computers, i haven't found a workaround for that yet. Furthermore i've experinced a few times that the resulting bmp from the renderfarm doesn't look like the bmp from a standalone render. One time the colours just wasn't there on the renderfarm bmp.

Regards
Arne Fjord