Forum: Vue


Subject: Attention all geeks (hardware inquiry advice)

krickerd opened this issue on Aug 22, 2010 · 11 posts


Dale B posted Mon, 23 August 2010 at 4:56 PM

Thanks for the correction, Sharon! I don't have a dual monitor setup (yet), so I must have truncated my own search to what I needed. And that is a neat trick on the shared USB; avoids all sorts of issues when you try to configure computers for network sharing. 

Oh, two more things to consider; heat and noise. My original rendergarden was desktop cases stacked on a printer stand, to the right of my desk. The room temperature when an animation was cooking could get stuffy (although it's nice in winter, if you have cold winters), and you have to be very careful about ceiling fans. Computer cases are designed around the concept of negative pressure cooling; the power supply fan exhausts air from the back, and the drop in pressure brings cooler room air into the case. Extra fans helps that along, but most people wind up with the exhaust still being only from the power supply. Place a computer against a wall, and turn on a ceiling fan blowing downward, and you can create enough pressure between wall and computer that the exhaust fan  is useless. I found that out the hard way when a box overheated, and I couldn't understand how two functioning fans weren't up to the job. You have to make sure your renderboxes have adequate airflow that can't be interfered with.