Crazy render machine

DragonWoLf · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:30

http://helmer.sfe.se/

"The most amazing is that this machine just costed as a better standard PC, but has 24 cores that run each at 2.4 Ghz, a total of 48GB ram, and just need 400W of power!! This means that it hardly gets warm, and make less noise then my desktop pc."

:eek:

MikeHunt79 · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:35

Who needs racks when you've got Ikea.

dr. sarf · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:36

That's pretty impressive.

Raikiri · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:37

CPU £150 x 6
Mobo £50 x 6
Ram £50 x 12
PSU £30 x6
HD £25 x 6 (at a guess)

£2130 is slightly more than most builds tbh... had he used 4 chips with better motherboards he could have had 16 cores each at 3.6ghz, the same total ghz and saved about £410 (allowing £100 per motherboard).

Will_3rd · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:38

Not a bad effort

Theguy · 27 Apr 2008 at 22:41

how much is the 1gb network connection a limiting factor would you say? or would that only be a slow down at the start and end of the job?

Greenlizard0 · 28 Apr 2008 at 00:02

That's quite cool I suppose...

milkinc13 · 28 Apr 2008 at 15:24

now that is serious processing power

shimy182 · 28 Apr 2008 at 16:10

fold !

EDIT: also, have you seen this ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLte5f34ya8

Russs · 1 Jun 2008 at 15:59

Could this be used to play games lol?

peetee · 1 Jun 2008 at 16:51

you dont seem to understand the point in the thing, its multiple pcs built inside a cabinet.
for render jobs. Each will do a batch of the render.

It would be crap for playing games due to the fact theres no decent GPU.
Latency would be a problem too since they all communicate over ethernet.

over 2K is over twice as much as the average build =/

He could have done it cheaper like, and Id like to see it running at 400w at full load.

Strife212 · 1 Jun 2008 at 16:56

Meagre, he should have used graphics cards and CUDA.

engstrom0304 · 1 Jun 2008 at 18:09

still, quite cool