lsauvage posted at 2:10 AM Tue, 4 July 2023 - #4469228

When you need power and dont want to invest (for money or ecology), you can use your mini PC to access a rented VM in the cloud with a super GPU. I do that and uses poser on it. It works really better on it then on my PC.  it's streaming the input / ouput and if your network connection is good it is very efficient.

I took a Zenith for Maker plan at shadow.tech and i'm glad i did.

Thank you for input which I have to say has given me a lot to think about.  My present render machine is almost five years old and cost me the best part of £4,000 at the time and is definitely creaking.  Looking at the shadow.tech the monthly prices looked expensive until I started to do the sums.  With my render machine having problems have looked at the cost of replacement which is what started me down this journey.  For a decent replacement  decided I needed to spend in the region of £3000 to get close to what I have but shadow tech want £32.97 a month.  Based on that my £3000 would give me over seven years and my present system cost would give me ten years, not only saving me money but also the time spent reloading my present unit more than once.  

No doubt there may be problems with shadow.tech that I am not seeing at the moment but it does need a lot more research so I am ready should my present unit die on me.

Thanks for the link.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.