Computer for 3ds rendering

Question

Iron

We need to choose a computer for 3ds rendering, we work with vray 1.5, so the GPU is not important. I want something in the range of 45-50 tr.
I would like to understand by what parameters to choose a mother.
What I found online so far:
Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7-B3 $368
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600k $348.96
RAM: Corsair CMP8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 $159
PSU: Silverstone Strider 1000W Gold ST1000G $249
GPU: GF440
HDD's: Samsung 1M 320MB RP0 F3 (x2) $115

What do you offer to save on, and what is better to take better?

Answer 1

I think RAID makes sense. the load on the file system is the same. Therefore, I advise 2 hard drives in RAID 0. B.P. I think too ... 700 watts. should be more than enough.

Answer 2

PSU: Corsair Professional Series AX750 ( $170 )
M/B: ASRock Fatal1ty P67 ( $220
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600k ( $315
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3-2133 8GB ( $100 )
HDD: 2x Samsung Spinpoint F4 320GB RAID- 0 ( 2*$42 )
GPU: NVidia GeForce GT 430 2GB ( $80 )
totals $900 which is ~$430 cheaper than what you have.

Answer 3

What's the point in Core i7 2600k ? Are you going to drive him by the multiplier? If not, then a simple Core i7 2600, if you are already guided by sandi. And so I agree with Gavric , the number of cores may be more important, not so sandy is faster in architecture than gulfs, but with NT 8 threads versus 12 speak for themselves, the difference of 200 MHz I don’t think is significant.
As for the file system, if there are very large files, then I recommend doing a raid10, it will raise the linear speed a couple of times. I do not advise raid0 because of unreliability, raid 5 because of the brakes on recording and a very long rebuild in which case. And you can even raise the top ten on the chipset one, it works well on Intel's ICH * R.

Answer 4

You buy a mother with 3 PCI-e 16x, put 3 5x NVidia in them and desperately fap on rendering speed using NVidia Gelato or something like that . And you can also collect five of these in a nightstand and sell a render service until you use it yourself.
Such a bedside table pays off in about six months of rendering for 12 hours a day on average.
It is irrational to build a render station, relying only on the CPU in our time.

Answer 5

Maybe it makes sense to wait for the release of Bulldozer'a (in early June) and then compare the price / quality?

Answer 6

Motherboards based on the more modern Z68 chipset are already on sale.

Answer 7

A year ago, I took home a render node:
Gigabyte ga-ex58-ud5
core i7-920
12 gb (6x2gb) corsair 1600
I had an old 525-watt power supply, the case was old, the screw was also old for 60 GB IDE.
There is no video card. Worth win xp x64 and max 2011 (mental ray) - uptime for a year, CPU usage 100%. Everything is running great.
It cost me exactly 30 thousand.