SSD faster for rendering

TheCase · 20 Mar 2009 at 20:14

Hi,

I will be doing a lot of HD Rendering my new PC is going to be quad 2.8ghz, 4gb ddr2, 512mb hd gpu so I realised the only way to speed it up would be hard drive you think I would benefit from SSD

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-011-OC

Than a regular hard drive. I will have a normal hard drive for games and stuff and will only use the SSD to render to, is it worth it?

Thanks

mod1fied · 20 Mar 2009 at 21:06

I would have thought more processing power would be more beneficial than a faster access speed/time of a SSD/HDD. Unless the rendering requires lots of reads/writes to disk...

JonJ678 · 20 Mar 2009 at 21:18

TheCase said:
quad 2.8ghz, 4gb ddr2 so I realised the only way to speed it up...

An ssd is quite unlikely to make a difference. The way to speed it up is to run the quad core faster

blade786 · 20 Mar 2009 at 22:43

High performance processor and RAM is the way to go.

TheCase · 21 Mar 2009 at 00:27

Thanks guys. So you think I will see a difference in rendering times from 4gb ram to 6gb I know most softwares dont know how to use 6gb yet

LeJimster · 21 Mar 2009 at 00:56

What you want to do is something like this:
http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2004/08/21/9ghz_rendiathon/1

or this:
http://hackaday.com/2008/09/30/6-pcs-in-one-clear-case/

with more modern hardware

.

Talrinys · 21 Mar 2009 at 10:10

TheCase said:
Thanks guys. So you think I will see a difference in rendering times from 4gb ram to 6gb I know most softwares dont know how to use 6gb yet

As cheap as RAM is you might as well go for it

Uhtred · 22 Mar 2009 at 20:52

What are you rendering with? At work i've setup network rendering with 20 quad core machines using 3dstudio max. It flies

jellybeard999 · 22 Mar 2009 at 21:21

Consider a multi CPU setup too.

Happy · 22 Mar 2009 at 21:25

What's the budget, if you want power wait for the dual socket i7 boards

LeJimster · 23 Mar 2009 at 00:44

Zap said:
What are you rendering with? At work i've setup network rendering with 20 quad core machines using 3dstudio max. It flies

Phwoar, now thats what I'm talking about!

Bet that cost a fair bob or two.

Uhtred · 23 Mar 2009 at 10:54

LeJimster said:
Phwoar, now thats what I'm talking about!

Bet that cost a fair bob or two.

Well they're all used for 2D&3D CAD design work during work hours so they're high spec (Quad core Xeon with room for another CPU if needed, 8GB of RAM with room for at least 8 more, 15k HDD, ATI fireGL V7600 etc) but not dedicated to rendering so I've had to schedule them to only render out of hours.

So far that hasn't been a problem but we're using it more and more so I'm going to look at rendering 24/7 with a low task priority and see if it has any impact on the users. From what i've read it should be OK.

JonJ678 · 24 Mar 2009 at 02:44

This has become an amazing thread. I very much like the multiple computers in a single box idea

edit: it looks like cluster computing under windows is not possible, which is unfortunate

dmx07 · 24 Mar 2009 at 08:36

In my experience with 3ds max get the fastest cpu you can afford (like the i7 920 for example) and as much ram as you can fit in ure motherboard which wont necessarily speed up render times but will make working in max much quicker and more efficient. Max just loves ram!

dark_hag666 · 24 Mar 2009 at 16:39

LeJimster said:
What you want to do is something like this:
http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2004/08/21/9ghz_rendiathon/1

or this:
http://hackaday.com/2008/09/30/6-pcs-in-one-clear-case/

with more modern hardware .

or these -> http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2008/10/whats-with-helmer-24-core-linux-cluster.html