NikKelly posted at 6:46 AM Thu, 2 February 2023 -
#4455196I realised it would be much cheaper and future-resistant to build a 'render box' than significantly upgrade either of my CAD_Tower's now-ageing twin GPU cards...
What beat me for weeks was Window 10's exasperating network security stuff. The error messages do not give a clue to what's wrong. In the end, I realised that the error messages were looking at sorta-flipside of problem, dug deeper, found yet-another poorly documented networking menu. One last check-box and we were in business...
Uh, please may we have a forum for queue rendering and its quirks ??
The security issues are frustrating. I believe that's why when I jumped from the last two Windows 10 build it caused the network setup to basically break down. I would need someone with programming/network experience to hand me a program that would connect all my pcs on the network, even though Poser only relies on the ip address of the pcs, and not on the network itself. Very confusing.
I, too, thought about a rendering farm. Either that or building a server box with a whole lot of memory (Dual Xeon processors?). That would be my ideal setup. I was even thinking that Poser installed on the server box would be even better than a couple of pcs all hooked together. But quite honestly I don't know if Xeon processors/mb are outdated. I have over the past year gotten into the intel Dell processors (2nd Generaton +) only because I am able to afford them every couple of months.
Quite honestly with 16GB of ram, this little 990 i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40 is blazing fast at rendering in both Poser and Daz.
The only bottleneck is the amount of memory (16GB max). So thinking connecting another 990 (or maybe two pcs with same cpu/memory, etc) would be even faster.
Someone in another post mentioned it's all about the video card. AMD Radeon HD 6450 1GB DDR3 PCI-E x16. I forgot, but I think it's possible to use a 4GB in this chassis (SFF). With a larger chassis allowing for a full size card with more memory (more money too)
There are also the options of using a dedicated graphics accelerator card in a larger box (Dell MT, or something else). I'm wondering about one of those with the built in gpu on the motherboard...
Eddy
