Quote - > Quote - This is the 3rd iteration of the rendergarden. Except that the netgear 24 port 10/100 switch has been replaced by a green gigabit 16 port smart switch. The original boxes above ran an original Slot A Athlon, and the rest were Athlon IIs. The current boxes in the rack run Athlon 64-'X2s. All have 4 gigs ram. A couple of them also have a RAID 0 HDD array (experimenting. It does speed up the slowest part, namely hard drive access time, but you have =zero= error tolerance. Lose a drive, and you have to reinstall everything).

Plus is you get a slightly clued person asking, you get to watch their eyes bulge when you tell them its your renderfarm...... :P 

And what exactly is it that you do? Are CG graphics a hobby or a career?

 

At the moment they are more hobby and learning experience than career....but that can change. I do animation, and am working on several scripts for short stories, or a multi chapter tale like Tim Vining's Aurora. Poser is my stable of B list actors (which saves an incredible amount of time vis-a-vis modeling, leaving said time to be consumed by keyframing, audio work, editing, post, special effects, foley, etc etc etc....). When I hit retirement, this -will- be a full time function, and hopefully I'll have enough good footage to assemble a demo reel.