Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Ideal Poser render node, hardware mavens please hit me.

operaguy opened this issue on Feb 06, 2006 ยท 21 posts


operaguy posted Mon, 06 February 2006 at 12:06 AM

I need to set up a small Poser6 RenderCondo. I need two workstations, preferablly identical, to do nothing but render Poser6 animations around the clock. May I ask contributors not to post about using other net-render products or apps; there are many strong arguments to NOT do this project in Poser with these two PoserNodes, but for a LONG list of reasons, I need to go this way. Here's my component list and rough budget: 250 CPU 120 Mboard 90 Case with power supply 180 1.5 Gig RAM 100 VideoCard 25 CD-ROM 80 CPU Cooling Fan 80 Hard Drive Total: $925 each, not including OS, Poser License, sales tax, delivery. 1) CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Processor is my leading candidate. It has 1MB L2Cache and is fast. The other items below? I am completely open to suggestions. 2) I don't need a big HD. Even 30Gig is laughably large. But do I need two HDs so I can distribute the swap file, OS, Poser.exe, Runtime folder and output file on different CPUs? I am not sure raid-0 would help at all here, but two different HDs might be important. However, to keep price down, one decent drive would be great. 3) RAM - When I perform massive Poser renders on my current working computer, which has 4 gig RAM, the highest usage peaks at about 1.2 Gig. I figure I need 1.5 Gig to cover that plus other active processes. Apparently Poser does not even know what to make of a second Gig of RAM! But what about the QUALITY of this 1.5 Gig. Anyone think it's worth it IN THIS SCENARIO to buy the very best? 4) Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum MS-7125-010? Asus A8N-E? I don't know! 5) Video graphics: wish I could get this included on the motherboard. I don't need to do any color comping or viewinsg. Just need it to drive a simple 19" CRT. I really wish I could save money on it. Any feedback, red flags, product suggestions, gotchas? Thanks, ::::: Opera :::::