Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
I had my dual Seasonics that lasted around 2 years I'm guess. I had a Seasonic S12 600 watt and 500 watt powering my system, and they never had issues. I even powered my system with just the 600w for a day or two, and it only hiccupped a little bit, which was very surprising...
Originally posted by: Atheus
Dual 600W Seasonic? For redundancy or actually both of them running at once? What was it a quad Opteron?
OP: About 5 minutes longer than the warranty in my experience, although I've never had a Fortron fail and I must have had some of them for over 2 years.
Originally posted by: Smartazz
Originally posted by: Atheus
Dual 600W Seasonic? For redundancy or actually both of them running at once? What was it a quad Opteron?
OP: About 5 minutes longer than the warranty in my experience, although I've never had a Fortron fail and I must have had some of them for over 2 years.
From the sounds of it, he used both power supplies at the same time. Maybe he has a lot of hard drives, video cards and a quad opteron. That probobly costs a lot of money to run then.
Originally posted by: Smartazz
lol, 12 hdds on average. I guess that it was for professional work. How long are the warranties on seasonics anyway?
Originally posted by: Ilikepiedoyou
that's ridiculous
Originally posted by: Ilikepiedoyou
I meant that in a good way. Your machine is very exotic. Did you need all the hard drives for max? What kind of work do you do in max? Animation, Architectural renderings.... Alos what kind of video card were you using?
Originally posted by: Ilikepiedoyou
I meant that in a good way. Your machine is very exotic. Did you need all the hard drives for max? What kind of work do you do in max? Animation, Architectural renderings.... Alos what kind of video card were you using?
Originally posted by: Smartazz
Originally posted by: Ilikepiedoyou
I meant that in a good way. Your machine is very exotic. Did you need all the hard drives for max? What kind of work do you do in max? Animation, Architectural renderings.... Alos what kind of video card were you using?
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing about your gpu.
edit: nm
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: Smartazz
Originally posted by: Ilikepiedoyou
I meant that in a good way. Your machine is very exotic. Did you need all the hard drives for max? What kind of work do you do in max? Animation, Architectural renderings.... Alos what kind of video card were you using?
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing about your gpu.
edit: nm
I quit rendering after my wife bought me a BFG 6800 GT OC for my birthday or something. Before that, I had a PNY Quadro 4 900.
Originally posted by: Smartazz
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: Smartazz
Originally posted by: Ilikepiedoyou
I meant that in a good way. Your machine is very exotic. Did you need all the hard drives for max? What kind of work do you do in max? Animation, Architectural renderings.... Alos what kind of video card were you using?
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing about your gpu.
edit: nm
I quit rendering after my wife bought me a BFG 6800 GT OC for my birthday or something. Before that, I had a PNY Quadro 4 900.
Do high performance gaming gpus(8800GTS) render well at all, and do the high end quadros game well?
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
That card couldn't render for sh!t. But I was hitting limitations in my scene setups from the 900, so I needed to upgrade. Sadly, it would have been too expensive to do, as I would have to get a new card, mobo, RAM, and the new version of Max,
Originally posted by: Ilikepiedoyou
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
That card couldn't render for sh!t. But I was hitting limitations in my scene setups from the 900, so I needed to upgrade. Sadly, it would have been too expensive to do, as I would have to get a new card, mobo, RAM, and the new version of Max,
what do you feel is the bare nessary to do so, besides the new version of Max
Originally posted by: Ilikepiedoyou
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
That card couldn't render for sh!t. But I was hitting limitations in my scene setups from the 900, so I needed to upgrade. Sadly, it would have been too expensive to do, as I would have to get a new card, mobo, RAM, and the new version of Max,
what do you feel is the bare nessary to do so, besides the new version of Max
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: Ilikepiedoyou
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
That card couldn't render for sh!t. But I was hitting limitations in my scene setups from the 900, so I needed to upgrade. Sadly, it would have been too expensive to do, as I would have to get a new card, mobo, RAM, and the new version of Max,
what do you feel is the bare nessary to do so, besides the new version of Max
If you are referring to hardware minimums to render, the I would say 2gb RAM, a C2D E6400, a decent mobo (there is no need for OCing in this system, because stability must be maintained), a PCIe Quaqro FX card (atleast a 1300--they are cheap enough on ebay), a 120gb boot drive, and 200gb storage drive, and a power PSU. You don't want to be limited by your PSU whatsoever, so get something that can EASILY handle your computers load and then some. It isn't worth it messing with PSU issues, trust me. And that system will let you render very well, and will keep rendering for a long time.
Originally posted by: Smartazz
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: Ilikepiedoyou
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
That card couldn't render for sh!t. But I was hitting limitations in my scene setups from the 900, so I needed to upgrade. Sadly, it would have been too expensive to do, as I would have to get a new card, mobo, RAM, and the new version of Max,
what do you feel is the bare nessary to do so, besides the new version of Max
If you are referring to hardware minimums to render, the I would say 2gb RAM, a C2D E6400, a decent mobo (there is no need for OCing in this system, because stability must be maintained), a PCIe Quaqro FX card (atleast a 1300--they are cheap enough on ebay), a 120gb boot drive, and 200gb storage drive, and a power PSU. You don't want to be limited by your PSU whatsoever, so get something that can EASILY handle your computers load and then some. It isn't worth it messing with PSU issues, trust me. And that system will let you render very well, and will keep rendering for a long time.
Do you do rendering for a living or for a hobby?