#3DS4 Workstation
Hi everyone,
I'm looking into purchasing some hardware in order to setup a company
that would create Videos for presentation purposes. Our input are paper plans
and ACAD plans, outputs would be 5 minute animated Video rendered with
3DStudio4. So far there are two of us and we both have similar setups (
486DX33,16Mb ram,850Mg HD, and 486DX2-80,8Mb ram,500Mb HD). While we feel this
is sufficient to draw in ACAD12 and 3DS4, it of course is unable to render
without putting our machines out of order for weeks. I would like to know what
users have tried and for hardware.
1) What are the best suited video cards?
2) Can we just get a (or a few) machines to do rendering full time?
3) If i get a few is pentium faster then 486DX100?
4) What about dual pentium machines, or a network of 486s?
5) I heard there is a network motherboard that you plug 486 or P. motherboards
in just like you plug a controller or video board in a normal machine. Would
that be better?
6) What kind of video output card do you need to send to VHS?
7) Does it take a special VHS machine?
We are looking at cutting turn around time on delivery and so far rendering
seems to be the slowest step.
Any good or bad experiences would be extremely helpfull in choosing my
hardware.
Thanks in advance.