Rendering Slaves Recomendation

[ipaddress]

Hi, for x2 4400+ i would suggest a Tyan motherboard with on board vga. I have been using them since quite some time. I have tried out with asus mobo also but that combination seemed to crash after running for 4 or 5 hours regularly. Check out the tomshardware site for mother board review between tyan and asus. For a rendering workhorse its better to go for a stable mobo with less features than a mobo with lots of unwanted features. Safe to go with a scsi or a ide hard drive for the render box. Sata seems to be very unstable for longer runs...

-IPADD

[jscott]

I would spend the extra $38 and get the Opteron 175 over the 4400+. The Opterons OC better. Folks are getting 2.5-2.7 ghz on the stock HSF.

I put my 175 (2.6 ghz on stock HSF) on an Asus SLI Premium but for render slaves you can probably do just fine with a less expensive board. The Premium is nice but your paying for a lot of stuff you don't need: USB headers, Joystick port, and SLI. It does have a heat pipe on the chipset instead of a fan.

Maybe the ASUS A8N5X ($96) would be good enough if the bios supports Dual Core. BTW the Asus site only lists the new A8N32 as supporting dual core Opterons but my Premium from Newegg already had a bios update for dual core.

good luck,

-jscott

[E55]

thanks for the tip guys


jscott: your right about the prem. mobo ,but if i use less expensive board wonts this affect the OC ?

[jscott]

The box says the bios has OC features. I think this board is cheaper because it lacks a lot of the stuff you get in the more expensive boards (like the Premium), not because it is low quality.

I haven't built a system with the ASUS A8N5X board. Obviously you need to do your own research but I though it was worth taking a look at since it lacks a lot of the stuff you don't need for a render box anyway.

Check the OC forums and see if anyone is using this board. I'm kind of assuming you want a mild OC anyway so you can keep these systems stable without worry of over heating or having to spend extra money on cooling solutions. You probably don't want to run some high voltage OC for system that needs to be 24/7 stable. You just want to free some of those unused mhz.

peace,

-jscott

[E55]

hi again, performance wize which faster the 4400+ or the op175 they both run at 2.2 .
is there is any benchmarks in this forum?

[jscott]

They are basically the same. Same core, cache, & mhz. The Opterons are suppose to be better quality silicon which is why the OC better and cost a few $$ more.

-jscott

[E55]

thank you for ur time jscott:thumbsup:

[jscott]

No problem...good luck,

-jscott

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