Re: Renderfarm options

[Sylvain Lebeau]

Hi Leoung, i would definetly go with Intel procs if you are ADDING on a farm/workstation that is already Intel based.... or vice/versa i've heard a couple of times that the same frame rendered on different chips we're giving different results.... wich could lead into a nightmare. I dont know how instruction sets differs and i cant help in this atomic precision.... but go the safest way in my opinion. If you got intel right now?...stick to it... Here all workstations are Intel so is the farm.... and we never had surprises between what the artist do and what the farm crunch.. dont forget to add some major RAM!!! sly -- Sylvain Lebeau // SHED V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 F 514 849-5025 WWW.SHEDMTL.COM <http://WWW.SHEDMTL.COM>   Leoung O'Young Monday, July 30, 2012 9:53 PM I am looking at adding a few more computers for rendering. Looking for some opinions. AMD  2x opteron 6272 for total of 32 cores Intel 2x  E5 2670 for a total of 16 cores Thanks so much, Leoung