I highly recommend the SilverStone Raven case. The GUP4 can handle up to four double wide GPUs. I use both OctaneRender and TheaRender for GPU rendering (and soon hope to test FurryBall for C4D additionally, RedShiftRender is said to be extending to C4D). Plus C4D really rocks with Nvidia CUDA/GTX GPU enabled rendering, especially since the Team Render feature was added. Moreover, my experience with them is such that I wouldn't hesitate to put a 10-, 12- +-core CPU in a GUP4. I've got eight systems using them and those systems have 6- and 8-core processors. I consider the Gigabyte UP4 ('GUP4') to be a cheap motherboard - It costs under $250. I use C4d Broadcast, so I think I'm capped at 3 clients. The Mac client for Windows RDP is indeed good.Īlso the licenses differ. The Windows and Mac computers all play nice together. Don't think the Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge/Haswell part matters, but I have heard it is best to stay on the same processor manufacturer (AMD or Intel) although I have no first hand experience in a mixed environment. Really (really) wish they'd release a Linux client for the rest of us. They have a Linux client but only make it available to the big boys. I suspect two 6c computers would be cheaper than three 4c computers though when you factor in RAM, cases, boot drive, and Windows licences. When you get into 6c or higher, you start to need more expensive motherboards, so, do the math on what works best for you. My 4930k runs at 4GHz so it's faster than my nMP 6c and cost about half as much.Ī 4c i7 with a cheap motherboard will be the cheapest and a good bang for the buck. The MacPro is just too expensive compared to a PC.

The iMac and MacMini just don't have the kind of thermal characteristics you'd want for a render slave. You already have the ability to render to other computers by installing the Team Render Client on any computer you want to use on the render farm.Ī homebuilt PC will be the best bang for the buck in comparison to the MacPro, iMac or MacMini. Team Render in Cinema 4d does not use Thunderbolt, it uses Ethernet.

Cinema 4d render farm