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Gander0 · July 23rd, 2008

Hi all,

I have a spare Tyan Tempest i5400XT motherboard and instead of selling it I was wondering about the options for creating a dedicated render machine.

I am working from a fairly small home office and for this reason noise and space may be an issue.

The 1U rackmount cases seem to have a large footprint and im guessing they are fairly noisy? Im also concerned about cooling a case like this, I presume they are meant to be in a rack with external cooling so I cant just put it in a cabinet.

Also wanted to know about operating systems for a server. Can i send renders from a 64 bit machine to a server that was running windows xp for example. I am probably not going to go over four gigs of RAM for the server machine so would I need a 64bit OS otherwise?

Do I need much RAM in a render machine?

Any help is very much appreciated!!

Cheers!

July 23rd, 2008	#1 (permalink)
Gander0 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: London, UK Age: 31 Posts: 170 Name: Jan Gall	Render Machine Hi all, I have a spare Tyan Tempest i5400XT motherboard and instead of selling it I was wondering about the options for creating a dedicated render machine. I am working from a fairly small home office and for this reason noise and space may be an issue. The 1U rackmount cases seem to have a large footprint and im guessing they are fairly noisy? Im also concerned about cooling a case like this, I presume they are meant to be in a rack with external cooling so I cant just put it in a cabinet. Also wanted to know about operating systems for a server. Can i send renders from a 64 bit machine to a server that was running windows xp for example. I am probably not going to go over four gigs of RAM for the server machine so would I need a 64bit OS otherwise? Do I need much RAM in a render machine? Any help is very much appreciated!! Cheers! Last edited by Gander0; July 23rd, 2008 at 10:41 PM.