SERVER QUESTION

[photographybyricky]

AMD Server question:

 

Does anyone know if this server has the potential or enough juice inside to become a 4K rendering farm?  Its an:  HP Proliant DL165 G7 server- 2x 12 core AMD Opteron 6172, 48GB DDR3, 1TB HDD (24 cores total t 2.1ghz) 

 

Here is the link on ebay:  http://www.ebay.com/itm/322338783798?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

 

It has a lot of cores and two processors inside.  Even has a PCI-16x half slot for a small GPU like a 4k Fire Pro 2100 or 4100 card.  If anyone knows about servers please let me know.  Its for a "beyond belief strict budget crisis"  I personally love Xeons a lot more but this is for a budget crisis situation lol.   Just need to know if it will at least "handle" 4K video editing.  Do not even mind if its slower as long as it can handle the load of 4k files being edited. 

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/322338783798?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[manikyath]

G7's are bae, finding one for that price is even more bae

 

it's not the fastest single core wise, but if you have a piece of rendering software than can make use of all those cores, that's a tiny rocketship for the price

[The Flying Sloth]

Damn, wish I'd seen that before you

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 hours ago, photographybyricky said:

enough juice inside to become a 4K rendering farm?

What are you rendering? What program? What settings?

 

These chips have a low ipc, but lots of core and are cheap.

[photographybyricky]

LOL.....Ghettofabulous!   LOL.  I'm running just a basic software nothing special....Sony Vegas Pro but for 4k video. 

[photographybyricky]

Settings......what ever settings optimal and nominal for 4K video rendering for weddings and sweet 15's and girls with guns music videos.  Nothing major.  However some are large files, like 30 minutes each of 4K.  For instance when they cut the cake, when they throw the bouquet in the air, etc....small segments small bursts of videos but none of them are more then 30 minutes long.  But there are numerous videos of course each at 30minutes max.