Buying a rack server to use as render farm

[Sujeeth]

Hi all,

The company I work for are planning to buy Supermicro rax (configuration not yet decided) to be used for 3d rendering (Max, maya, blender - all CPU based as of now). We have two Supermicro E5-2697 v4 18 core machines with 32 GB RAM currently. Idea is to buy something that can provide thrice the speed of what we have (41x2=82 Gz) under 20,000 Euros. I have been using http://www.thinkmate.com/ to configure different options. Given the fact that we do not wish to assemble something ourselves, can someone tell me what would be the right choice for the amount ? Plus are there any other sites like thinkmate which provide us information on different rack options ?

 

Thanks

 

[Guest]

http://www.thinkmate.com/systems/servers/rax

 

I do not yet see the option to select threadripper/EPYC cpu's. Call them up, and ask about that. Because I would think threadripper/EPYC would be way moar power/euro value there. Currently it only shows me Intel stuff and some opteron stuff.

[Guest]

Maybe you didn't read a topic like this one: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11551/amds-future-in-servers-new-7000-series-cpus-launched-and-epyc-analysis

[eli_d7]

3 hours ago, Dutch-stoner said:

http://www.thinkmate.com/systems/servers/rax

 

I do not yet see the option to select threadripper/EPYC cpu's. Call them up, and ask about that. Because I would think threadripper/EPYC would be way moar power/euro value there. Currently it only shows me Intel stuff and some opteron stuff.

RAX is their curated selection of servers, it probably isn't part of it because it's so new. They have it under a special page at: http://www.thinkmate.com/inside/articles/amd-epyc-7000