Afrodite-Ohki posted at 11:02PM Sun, 19 January 2020 - #4377032

Woow those settings are HIGH. Something like that here would take forever.

Well, I don't wait out the entire 210 pixel samples; I cancel once the render clears up the graininess. Those particular render settings used a lot of mesh light samples because the scene was lit by mesh lights.

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 11:02PM Sun, 19 January 2020 - #4377032

Gosh - right, that's incredibly generous of you. I'm not sure how pricey the shipping to Brazil would be for you.

Not so bad, for the postage; it is only the customs duty/tax that might be high. Or, it might pass through customs unscathed. That's an unknown.

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 11:02PM Sun, 19 January 2020 - #4377032

If I do this, it would be a long project for me, as I'd need to save the money for the motherboard, and then probably the power thingie (power source? Not sure what it's called in english?) as I'm pretty sure that mine can't take those dual processors. Likely, to get around customs it would have a higher chance if it's tagged as gift and described as used. I'll check with a friend of mine who's more hardware-savvy then I am, to see if there are any motherboards that would work with the other parts I already have (GPU, RAM memory, etc) to see if I can pull this off!

Here, we call the box inside the computer chassis which converts household alternating current electricity (120V 60Hz in US, 220V 50Hz Europe) into 12V DC electricity the power supply. Yeah, you'd want a 1000 Watt power supply for a workstation.

Your advice for tagging the package as "gift, used" sounds good.

As for re-using components, GPUs and other expansion cards would work. A workstation/server motherboard can take regular desktop computer memory, but you are much better off using registered ECC memory, preferably with metal heat spreaders. This is sometimes called "server memory". Registered memory has an extra chip on each DIMM which performs routing functions, figuring out what data needs to go where. That relieves the motherboard's memory controller of a lot of burden. So, the motherboard can use more memory if you use registered DIMMs. Memory sticks with ECC have Error Correcting Code, which spots and corrects most memory faults.

A used workstation/server motherboard of this vintage (dual 1366 sockets) will most likely take registered ECC DDR3, generally triple channel. The bare ATX-sized motherboard pic I posted has six DIMM slots with max capacity of 48GB; the pic inside the complete computer (named Galadriel) shows a larger E-ATX board size and has twelve DIMM slots with 96GB. The maximum amount of memory readable is determined by the motherboard's mainchip.

You must use a case/chassis which has the mounting pylons for the motherboard size which you wish to use. That Alienware chassis (named Galadriel) in the pic several posts above has mounting pylons for both the standard ATX size mobos and the larger E-ATX. We took advantage of that when her original 12GB single CPU board died, and converted her to dual CPUs with 96GB!

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