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daniohayon · July 9th, 2008

I've priced few options for a render farm units and came up with all but the CPU to cost $900 per dual 771 unit.

Now with the dual CPUs:

- E5420/2.5GHz $1587
- X5355/2.66Ghz $2500
- X5450/3GHz $2640
- X5460/3.16GHz $3350

It just looks clear to me that I should go with four units of 2.5GHZ than two unit of 3.16GHz if my budget was $7K, getting 32 cores at the speed of 2.5 than 16 cores at 3.16. Now does that make sense or am I missing something?

July 9th, 2008	#1 (permalink)
daniohayon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: New York Posts: 124 Name: Dani Ohayon	Severs value pack I've priced few options for a render farm units and came up with all but the CPU to cost $900 per dual 771 unit. Now with the dual CPUs: - E5420/2.5GHz $1587 - X5355/2.66Ghz $2500 - X5450/3GHz $2640 - X5460/3.16GHz $3350 It just looks clear to me that I should go with four units of 2.5GHZ than two unit of 3.16GHz if my budget was $7K, getting 32 cores at the speed of 2.5 than 16 cores at 3.16. Now does that make sense or am I missing something? __________________ Homer Simpson: Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!