Xeons for render farm?

[Demitri]

This question is pretty self explanatory, I'm curious if a server grade computer (powered by xeons, ecc memory, the whole works) is good for rendering long video projects over a typical gaming rig (say I dunno i5 cpu 8GB ddr3 and all that stuff)? I don't have plans to build one anytime in the next decade but the idea sparks my interest. I didn't see anything in the forums about this so I thought it safe to post. Is there any benefit to having a server grade PC as a dedicated render farm over a normal one?

[ChaseB]

Yes!!!! 

[Kyuubixchidori]

This question is pretty self explanatory, I'm curious if a server grade computer (powered by xeons, ecc memory, the whole works) is good for rendering long video projects over a typical gaming rig (say I dunno i5 cpu 8GB ddr3 and all that stuff)? I don't have plans to build one anytime in the next decade but the idea sparks my interest. I didn't see anything in the forums about this so I thought it safe to post. Is there any benefit to having a server grade PC as a dedicated render farm over a normal one?

more cpu perfomance basically. I used to have a I5-3570K at 4.4 ghz and now I have some xeon. Im a bad techie and dont even know which one.(bought the pc used, great price, couldnt pass it up)

 

Ill do some rendering soon, and planned to use my I3 laptop and my bros fx-6300 as "render" devices. between those and my xeon, should be able to tear though projects. 

 

I guess you would lose out on gpu rendering, but not sure how prevalient that is currently. looking into it though

[Demitri]

more cpu perfomance basically. I used to have a I5-3570K at 4.4 ghz and now I have some xeon. Im a bad techie and dont even know which one.(bought the pc used, great price, couldnt pass it up)

 

Ill do some rendering soon, and planned to use my I3 laptop and my bros fx-6300 as "render" devices. between those and my xeon, should be able to tear though projects. 

 

I guess you would lose out on gpu rendering, but not sure how prevalient that is currently. looking into it though

Ah okay, it makes sense I guess, I would like to know your findings when you test those out if that's okay.

 

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yes I'm fairly new thank you, i'll check those out when I get the time.

[typographie]

This question is pretty self explanatory, I'm curious if a server grade computer (powered by xeons, ecc memory, the whole works) is good for rendering long video projects over a typical gaming rig (say I dunno i5 cpu 8GB ddr3 and all that stuff)? I don't have plans to build one anytime in the next decade but the idea sparks my interest. I didn't see anything in the forums about this so I thought it safe to post. Is there any benefit to having a server grade PC as a dedicated render farm over a normal one?

 

Absolutely. Aside from server work, that hardware is also designed for use in high-end professional workstations. That being said, not every rendering application or rendering task exploits multiple processing cores as well as the next, so the performance difference (compared to, for instance, a same-gen i7) would vary. The real issue is the cost and practicality of spending thousands of dollars on hardware to render things a few minutes faster.

 

Practically speaking, the draw of professional-grade hardware is usually the more stringent stability verification it has to go through. Errors are costly for the big corporations and research universities that use such hardware.

 

That said, for a private consumer, it's probably more cost-effective to go with a fast Core i7 system and call it a day.