building a renderfarm with many netbooks, hum..silly idea or not ?

#1

hi,

i need power for rendering my animations in my favorite 3d software (Poser Pro 2010). i can’t afford me to purchase a xeon hardware or last core i7 every 6 months so i 'm thinking about another way :

get some many netbooks (second hand or new) build with atom (with multithread) and use them in a renderfarm.

Speaking money, add a notebook in the renderfarm will be easy than buy new hardware every 4 years.
A netbook does not take many place in a room, and use low power energy.

The licence of Poser Pro allows me to do that, so why not ?
am i silly or desperate ? anyone already try it or think it or view it in real ?

what do you think about this idea ?

#2

I strongly suspect a single i5 2500K overclocked to 4.5GHz(easily attainable) will outdo 20 dual core, 4 thread atoms. In cinebench r10 the OC’ed 2500K scores a little over 20,000 while the top of the line dual core, 4 thread atom scores 2000.
The i5 2500K setup will be cheaper and easier to manage.

#3

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