Hot 3D P5 Motherboard?
18-Aug-95 17:31:38
Sb: #185743-Hot 3D P5 Motherboard?
Fm: MARTIN G FOSTER 70303,456
To: CC 73303,2107
Cameron,
what do you think of the Alphaservers? Specifically I was thinking that a 4 CPU
(300mhz) alphaserver with 4mb cache per cpu and 1gb RAM would make a very
reasonable render server for around $120k – 140k. That's kinda comparing it to
an SGI ChallengeXL with 8 r4400 200mhz with 1gb RAM for $500k. I figure the
Alpha would be 80% faster for 25% of the cost.
BTW, we need lots of RAM because we create large scenes and sometimes do film
rez animations.