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AJLynn · February 7th, 2006

They don't have these (yet) - Maxwell and Vray run on PC hardware, and Renderdrives are proprietary systems. The problem is the price/performance benefits come from using specialized hardware (not PC hardware) and the hardware only runs that company's stuff.

But if those companies got together and worked on Vray or Maxwell render hardware, that would be pretty sweet.

Renderboxx is different - that's just a rackmount PC with AMD or Intel chips that Boxx markets as a render node, the advantage is since it's rackmount you can put many in a small space. You can run whatever you want on it.

February 7th, 2006	#3 (permalink)
AJLynn Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Beantown Age: 30 Posts: 4,550 Name: Andrew Lynn	Re: Recommended Rendering Hardware? They don't have these (yet) - Maxwell and Vray run on PC hardware, and Renderdrives are proprietary systems. The problem is the price/performance benefits come from using specialized hardware (not PC hardware) and the hardware only runs that company's stuff. But if those companies got together and worked on Vray or Maxwell render hardware, that would be pretty sweet. Renderboxx is different - that's just a rackmount PC with AMD or Intel chips that Boxx markets as a render node, the advantage is since it's rackmount you can put many in a small space. You can run whatever you want on it.