Render PC

[jejo303]

Hello,

I have the possibility to buy (€800) a second hand (5 years old|) render pc.

• 2 intel xeon CPU E5-2660 @ 2,2GHZ (16 core, 32 threads)
• 100GB SSD
• nvidia GTX 550 Ti
• 28 GB ram
• Windows 7, 64 Bit

Will this be a good render PC for Vray for Sketchup?

Thanks in advance

[kimi kimi]

Yeah, I would say it's a good purchase. For Vray it's great, although single core speed is obviously not very impressive, so working in SketchUp will probably be a bit painful. If you plan to use it only for rendering, then go for it.

[jejo303]

@kimi kimi said:

Yeah, I would say it's a good purchase. For Vray it's great, although single core speed is obviously not very impressive, so working in SketchUp will probably be a bit painful. If you plan to use it only for rendering, then go for it.

Thanks for response kimi kimi.
I'll need the pc for final rendering so i need the CPU power. This one would be for distributed rendering Vray. What exactly do you mean by single core speed? This one has 8 cores with 16 threads (twice)

[kimi kimi]

For single core, I meant that SketchUp, when modeling, uses one core only, so only those 2.2 GHz. So, for doing actual human work it's better to use some computer that has for example 4.0 GHz single core speed. But for rendering, this is great, V-Ray uses all threads, so 32x2.2. I think your setup is good, use another computer to build the model, use this new one to speed up rendering.

[HornOxx]

... not what you asked for but since I use for the most part renderers, which need CPU power in particular (such as Shaderlight, ArtLantis or RenderIn) this machine would be a dream for me.
Although the core clocking is not the fastest one this amount of 16 (32) cores would compensate that.

Perhaps you intend to use such other renderers parallel to Vray as well, this would be an excellent setup and the price is super...