Multi PC setup

[Catchamp]

Im in the very early preliminary stages of planning right now these are just ideas that I am throwing out to hear feedback and suggestions.

 I would really apreciate any help I have never really done anything beyond building and planning for gaming

 

So i find myself in the situation for my work in 3d modeling i can no longer just render on my main computer because I would lose it for many hours at a time and i cannot afford to send all of my work to a render farm. I currently use blender for personal and maya for school

I was planning to upgrade so I can convert this computer to pretty much a full time render machine. It currently has a Ryzen 7 2700X, RX580, and 32gb of ram at 3200. I was wondering if it was worth getting a cheaper quadro if I only really want the machine for rendering anyway and just either selling or repurposing the 580.

My assumption was that the best way to share files between the two computers would be a storage server made out of old pc components that I have laying aroud but that also seems unessisary can and should i just connect them directly to eachother via ethernet.

[emosun]

I think ethernet would be a more simple setup with less failure points.

As for the gpu , is your rendering done via gpu or cpu? If its done via gpu then keep the current one , if not then you can get pretty much any low end gpu to just get the machine to show a signal while it renders in the background.

[Catchamp]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

I think ethernet would be a more simple setup with less failure points.

As for the gpu , is your rendering done via gpu or cpu? If its done via gpu then keep the current one , if not then you can get pretty much any low end gpu to just get the machine to show a signal while it renders in the background.

It uses both CPU and GPU to render with more work put on the gpu