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Your post was not very detailed, but if you are just going to use this as a "render box" and make it part of a render farm, then I would opt for more cores and as much RAM as you can.
I am a professional 3D art creator myself and have a render farm setup with an older 2008 Mac Pro and 10GB of RAM that is in the chain. The more cores and memory is the best and usually shows in benchmarks conducted by 3D Magazine, Maxon, etc. What you can do is download their benchmarks at their web site and test once you have it setup. If it does not perform as you thought then you should be able to return or exchange it. However, I think this type of system will be ok so long as it is a part of the render farm.
If you are asking about a primary development system and not one that is a render node, then obviously you will need much better specs than anything here.
Thank you very much for your responses. What is going on is that here in my country it is election year and we have been contacted by one of the parties to take care of the entire ad campaign which will include heavy 3D works. Since we would need the horsepower during this election year we are gonna lease the equipment and I just want to find a way to justify the extra expense for a 5-10 Dual Hex Pros over Single Hex Pros with the ram topped up
It will be the first time for me to work at a such high scale and as well using a render farm. So lots of questions hehe.
It will be the first time for me to work at a such high scale and as well using a render farm. So lots of questions hehe.
This post is correct. I do professional level 3D art and that is the same thing I would say and any other pros around. You are not using the drives much at all, if any as the rendering should be taking place mainly in your memory and through your networked render nodes in the chain.
Also, I would advise the development take place either on a closed network with no internet access or one that has been setup to easily turn off internet access. The other choice you need to check is to make sure your packets are setup correct for getting the priority to those systems when rendering so nothing else is in that chain to consume any bandwidth. This can easily be done with router settings and software, you just need to test to see what needs to happen for your specific setup.
It looks like all the MacPro's in the cinebench leader board have 12 Cores and Radeon 5870. So that's what i'd buy if you're serious.
Add a RAID Card and an enclosure and a SSD for your boot Drive, max the Ram to 12Gb or 24Gb and you're good to go.
Actually, you can do better if you go with a fully custom Windows 7 64 bit ultimate setup like at the top of the list. The reason is the nVidia cards and "CUDA" cores. I simply can not live without that because of the software I use that takes advantage of them.
Right now, I have two nVidia 580GTX OC in SLI and the duel 5680 Xeons. I plan to upgrade to the 5690 Xeons and the 590GTX soon.
Thank you all for your nice responses, it's good to know there are people willing to help others here. Yesterday I sat down with my boss and did a 7-second video which included about 3-4 seconds of an animation made with c4d and the rest was after effects post production. The 4 seconds animation took over 21 minutes to render with the Pro in my signature properly saturating the 8 cores so we decided to lease seven 12core x 2.93GHz Mac Pros with 48Gb of RAM each. Should be more than enough for the workload we expect.
Here is the little video we made
http://t.co/YyPqLV9
Again thanks all
Here is the little video we made
http://t.co/YyPqLV9
Again thanks all