3D-Mobster posted at 5:56 PM Mon, 10 July 2023 - #4469759

So how is your new toy? :D

Is it the one in your description, that is a nice one for sure? :)

No, that description needs to be updated, I was holding off changing it until I could get something working.  Basically the one in the description, based on the Ryzen Threadipper, will still be used for my final render but I have moved it out of the office and into the garage.  This is because it does produce a lot of heat which can make my office hot during the summer months.  With that out of the office I have added a new front end in the form of a Geekom A5 mini PC equipped with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900hx.  With eight cores and 16 threads it is at least Poser friendly.  A 1tb M.2 drive, 32g Ram and Radeon Vega eight graphics finishes the package.  The unit can drive up to eight monitors so it does not sweat over the pair I have.  Connection and control of the unit in the garage is by Multiplicity by Stardock which can control up to nine units with just the single keyboard and mouse.

Plan is to switch the render unit on in the garage in the morning, once that is done I can switch it off at any point in the day.  The Geekom A5 comes already installed with Window 11 Pro so I can use it as a general home/office PC but also create Poser scenes.   Completing a full render is possible on the A5, if pushed, and therefore test renders are a doddle.  When I am happy I send the scene to the rendering unit in the garage and let Queue manager do the rest.

Main benefits are I have a much cooler office with less noise and a great deal more space and a unit running Windows 11 capable of running with online banking. 

 

 

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.