My Render Farm for Blender Animations. Old workstations with new GPUs for rendering frames!
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- RTX GPU Powered Render Farm in my Basement!
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These Dells have Nvidia GPUs from the 20xx series and 30xx series for blazing fast optix rendering in Blender. They all have a mapped network drive to share files to so they can work on the same .Blend file.
Come see my channel to learn what I use them for!
Both parts of this tutorial are now available on my channel! Thanks for watching
Update: I now have a few more PCs rendering, and this farm is getting super fast. Can run 900 frames of 1440p in 5 hours.
How much it costs to make a render farm?
@@BubasGaming These nodes would cost from $600 to $900 each. Basically the price of additional graphics cards plus small amounts for the worker itself. It varies from very cheap to very expensive. But as an example, each of these nodes has approximately 1 RTX 3060 ti. The desktops I use are cheap, old workstations. All they need to do is run a gpu without bottlenecking it.
So depending on what you need, you could get serious render speed ups for less than $1K.
This is stupid because rtx 4090 x4 can render 240 frame in 2m 3
Even if it will go to 1440p it will take
No longer than 3-4 hour to make an 3min video
@@ContradictionDesign if u would calculate the price of electicety it will cost more..
@@user-hl5zx1qh7s Yes the 40 series are more efficient. These are mostly 30 series. And yes, 4 cards are more efficient if they make the same speed as this farm, but I have slowly acquired these and don't want to take the loss on selling the hardware. The next iteration of this farm would probably use rack servers with ada workstation GPUs, since they are more efficient than GeForce. But that will be awhile down the line
Nice, watching this on my phone while my pc is rendering...
Well you definitely understand the benefits of a render farm then 😉
Same haha
Same 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
x3 HAHA @@bejoin3734
Um doing one that has passed one day and still on frame 231 of 750
i wanted to make simple animation on my laptop, you just scared the shit out of me
Haha you do not need all of this to make animations. These machines just make it faster at the back end but they are not necessary.
@@ContradictionDesignthat does not help
That room must be hot af whenever all those machines do work 😂
Oh it is. I have a portable AC on there with them that helps a bit
Wow that is really cool. Not something I personally have a use for but I have a ton of hardware like that just sitting around in my office. I look forward to checking out your tutorials.
Thank you! Hope you enjoy the tutorials.
I sure hope your electricity is free!
Haha I sure wish it was!
@@ContradictionDesign Maybe get a Solar Panel array on your roof to power them. Could save you money in the long run, as well as make you less dependent on the grid for your work. Couple it with a battery pack and you can even render during power outages at night (and you could even fill the battery pack with electricity at night when the energy prices are lower).
Also, the solar panel can be repurposed to power other things if you ever decide to stop using your render farm.
Just a thought
@@brandonporter550 I think I will get solar once I can afford it! It would be nice to be independent and such.
U can use miner motherboard with 8 or more gpu slot
Save space time and energy
@@arashmh8217 I do have a mining board. I have run into issues with doing it that way in the past, but I should try again. It really would be convenient
Reminds me of the "making of jurassic park" documentary where they had a whole room of computers rendering
Yep! Same idea here. I hope to have my barn full of render/ai/miner servers someday. Watch out Pixar, I'm coming for you haha
Edit: this tutorial is live on my channel.
I am getting plenty of interest in a tutorial for how to build this setup, so I will get on it ASAP. I would like to make this as helpful and factual as I can, so let me know what I can help with. Thanks for watching!
I have an Old i7 3.5ghz quad (3000 series) 32gb ram ddr3 and pci3 (bus speed) I just ordered a 3090ti to add to it. My current main rig is a Mac studio ultra 48c. Can i set it up so i can render on the windows computer, keep working on the mac, or render in both?
@@PopoRamos I am not familiar with networking between windows and Mac. I am sure it can be done but I have not. One thing you can do, is just copy the .blend file to both computers and render them separately. It is inconvenient but still way faster than using your main PC to render. I may research this topic further in the future, since I bet a bunch of people are in the same situation.
@@ContradictionDesign Yes, ill try and do that for now, and maybe just have one computer handle the first half, and the second computer the other half. I have a M1 mac mini i can use for other non 3D work (eventually i might add it to the farm also kkkk) And get an old computer to trow in my current 1060 card in there. Thanks for the information brother!
@@PopoRamos You are welcome. Any extra rendering help saves time for sure.
@@ContradictionDesign I figured out the networking situation between Mac’s and PC. I created a shared folder on the PC that I can access on the Mac. I can send the project there and set both output paths to the shared folder. I disabled override and enable the place keeper (so other machines know to skip that frame) it’s working as intended, however my current PC can only contribute about 15% with the 1060 on the Animation render, the M1 Ultra is very fast, so hopefully the 3090ti will bring the ratio close to 50% or more. I will post the results when the card arrives on the 10th.
An entire render farm dedicated to weird goat men. Damn.
Hopefully your animations are paying you enough to keep that power bill settled.
Well unfortunately not yet. But I am trying to get to that point sooner than later.
@@ContradictionDesignwhy not rent out the render farm when not in use
@@davidl6354 I have thought about it. I do have patreon tiers for that, but I don't advertise it yet. I would really like to set up a system where people can upload files, and have it automated for them. For now, I will have to manually run the renders. Which would be fine, but I want to be quick and cost effective for clients. I think this will be a great side income eventually though!
That’s really cool, I wish I could afford something like that
Thanks! I got lucky by mining a lot at the right time, and these things paid themselves off. Now, they are mostly retired to rendering my art!
@@ContradictionDesignIve tried mining with my laptop which has a RTX 3050 and I only got like 40 cents in 3 days. But keep up the good work man!
@@FentanylMonkey Thank you! I will
If they only used Data Denoise and node denoise all this would be avoided 😗
I will look into this! Any solution for high quality renders with more efficiency is always welcome!
Are u rendering the whole fucking world damn
Not quite yet... Just need a micro nuclear reactor and some GPU servers...
Sweet setup, a great way to use old hardware. I have been thinking about buying old pc parts and stocking up on 3090 and 4090s for the farm. Still expensive, but used 5700 cpus with 3090s is pretty good to have. 4 to 5 of them...... How much wattage it will take is something to watch out for. Don't want to break the breaker
Have fun with the setup! A few 3090 or 4090 will do very well. I know way too much about electrical fun. Running up to 6000 watts at a time haha. Just in my house and an out building. But it is a lot of fun to tinker with.
@@ContradictionDesign Haha nice! That's something I need to learn about. You must have a good ventilation for that area, damn sauna. The 3090s have never been so good till now!
@@NovaaGrind We'll just say the air conditioning makes the power bills a whole lot of fun
My friend has a god pc and he renders a 2 minute animation in about 5 ish hours
Amazing ❤
Thank you! I need to put it to more use
Ok Part 1 of 2 for this tutorial will be uploaded within a few hours. There is a lot of info to cover, but I am here to help you figure it out!
Hey there! I'm wondering if it is possible to make decent use of old Optiplex boxes? They are fast enough, most are dual 2.X Ghz, with good network speed. But many max out at just 4gigs of memory. Wondering if that is a disqualifier?
@@lanceevans1689 Unfortunately I think that would be too little memory for rendering. It would be possible for small scenes, but the majority of scenes would have problems I think.
Also, if you were going to try multiple GPU rendering, those would not be fast enough to distribute work to the GPUs without slowing them down.
Sorry for the bad news on that. It is very hard to optimize hardware for cost and speed.
Electric bill must be pretty darn high
Let's say I'm pretty excited for winter, to use the heat for good haha
Is this man rendering the interstellar black hole?
Watching this while my pc is rendering a car animation 😅
Well sounds like you could use a render farm sometimes then!
@@ContradictionDesign 😂🤣
Sorry for asking is multicore only for that's 😅
You mean is this farm only for Blender?
Bro's electricity bill be getting high 💀
Yeah it goes from "at least it is heating the house" in the winter, to "why am I doing this???" in the summer haha
My lenovo laptop is rendering right now soooo here I am 😂 I'm sitting on 10 min per frame right now of a 5 second video
I know the feeling. I got into desktop PCs a few years ago because my laptop at the time was too old to even open blender. So I got my first cheap gaming PC for 3d work. Now, it has grown into a huge obsession 😀
Hola, Es posible que hicieras un tutorial para ver el funcionamiento de esto? gran trabajo hombre
Planeo hacer un tutorial para esta configuración en un futuro muy cercano. Espero Este fin de semana. Hope this translates well. Sólo sé un poco de Español.
What's the oldest GPU did you have on?
Alternatively whats the most complicated task that this setup was able to render?
This looks cool
Currently installed, my oldest GPU is Rx 6600 / rtx 3000 series. I own Rx 580 and some 1000 series and older as well, but they are not worth the electricity relative to my current setup. These are mostly 6000+ AMD and 3000+ Nvidia.
As far as complexity, I can run up to 24 GB VRAM scenes, but most of my scenes are 8 GB or so. I am working on creating new scenes to test, and more complex ones, but it takes me a long time to set them up.
This guy doesn't have to pay for heating
That is true. I save money in winter. Summer is not as fun 🙂
I thought the same thing and I was right. :-D
Nice work
Thank You!
i wish i have the money to make something like that
btw cool renderfarm
Hey thanks! I got very lucky with building the farm slowly and being able to pay them off as I went by mining on them. Otherwise I could not have afforded them either
Those fan sounds
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
All day long!
Beep beep beep bebebebebebebebeb BOOOOOMMM
That sounds like my machines turning on one by one until the breaker blows haha
You can build a racked server with HPE ProLiant DL380a Gen11, Support for 4 double-wide or 8 single-wide GPUs in a 2U server for intensive compute acceleration. Powered by 4th and 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with next-generation technology. that support up to 64 cores at 350W and 24 DIMMs for DDR5 memory at speeds up to 5600 MHz. Support for up to 3 TB total DDR5 memory with 12 DIMM channels per processor delivers increased performance and lower power requirements. With that you can render in 5 to 6 min 8k frame with more than 130.6 million polygons and particles and furr or whatever you want
That is what I am looking for. Hopefully I will be able to spend enough to do it right the first time, and not just upgrade in small steps. Thanks for the info! Servers are still foreign to me
I have thought about doing this myself but I'm worried that the electrical efficiency is very poor. I think I'd still prefer a single very powerful and modern system like a high core count threadripper with multiple GPUs. And possibly one extra computer so I can work on another project while the former can continue rendering. Thoughts?
@@SkrapProductionsLLC Yeah I think the more dense your system is, the more efficient. I am testing some CPU servers for rendering now, and I will try a GPU server next. But I will probably get these desktops switched out for servers someday.
So yeah, high core, multiple GPU machines are probably a better idea. Just need enough power for such a machine on your outlets
@@ContradictionDesign thanks for this. I subscribed and would be interested in following any changes you make to your setup or workflow.
@@SkrapProductionsLLC Awesome! Glad to have you here. I am also starting to learn unreal engine, so eventually I will be able to test aspects of that world too
This is a lot and lot of power?!
Ohhhh my yes. A few thousand watts
@@ContradictionDesign Very expensive I think
@@tolisgamer yes when they are running
Amazing
Thank you!
Omg 😱😱😱. That' so perfect 😍😍😍
Thanks! I am very lucky to have such a setup
@@ContradictionDesign bro my computer is very weak and the notebook :(
@@muradmukhtarov I am sorry to hear. My favorite object in life is a speedy computer. I hope you are able to get one sometime.
Great Slave PCs! 😅 Looks like DELL Precision or similar?
Yep! Dell Precision T3600 with max CPU, RAM, and Power Supply.
@@ContradictionDesign with all these machines working non stop, install some smoke detector in this room, just in case, because of the rendering they heat up a lot and many kilowatts power involved.
@@vasiovasio Oh yeah tons of power. I am also going to do a "how to power computers safely" video soon. Electricity is definitely not a toy
How do you cluster them together like that
(I can afford this)
Well I actually run them all separately, but use a shared storage PC to distribute the same blender file. There are add-ons that attempt to link them so you can render with one button press on all machines, but I have struggled to make those softwares behave so far.
Next iterations of this farm will be refurbished servers, probably 4u size, with dual xeon CPUs and 8 Nvidia GPUs. This will cut my manual machine work down to seconds.
If you want to see how I set this all up, I do have two older tutorials on the channel that explains it in depth. Thanks for finding me!
@ContradictionDesign thanks!
That’s awesome. How unbelievably difficult is it to set this up? I imagine it’s hard to do on the software side
Thank you. And actually it is fairly simple. Just use remote desktop app and run blender on each machine. I have a two part tutorial on my channel if you want to see how.
@user-kl5wc3hl9h I have never used Maya. But I think you could do the same thing for Maya renders, because each machine can be assigned frames to render manually. So this setup should work for any 3D software. The only difference will be if the software supports distributed rendering on its own, which Blender does not really even do.
Wow it's like DreamWorks
Well they started somewhere small too right?
@@ContradictionDesignfun fact DreamWorks used to use HP Workstations But nowadays They Use Lenovo and Net App
@@PrimeStone Oh interesting! Sometimes the best "professional equipment" is whatever works for you at the time!
Wow . I Wondering what kind objek you rendering ? The Universe .?
Hahaha I wish! Mostly my own character work for now, but I am hoping to expand my farm to use server hardware, and render for clients soon
why does the start of the video look like some shot from a movie on the docks at night lol
Haha cause back then I thought it would be really cool to show the lights on all the rigs. And the lights in the room are awful anyway haha
So cool
Thanks!
Where do you find these computers
@@oreosmith2862 The old Dells are from my workplace. When we phase them out I get to take them for free. The other ones I built myself. These old Dells can be very cheap though.
I have my eye in some old optiplex computers hopefully I’ll be able to buy them
@@oreosmith2862 hey those would definitely be useful.
How is it that people can work blender projects and render fine without a farm of old computers?
Was this really necessary?
Great question! This setup is definitely not necessary. It is very spread out, and a future version of this will be a server with GPUs that's much more compact. Most people can easily run their projects with one PC.
I am very much a tech nerd and I enjoy building and expanding this little farm. Part of it is that these computers have multiple uses, and a big part of the channel is testing and comparing these components. So it's really just more like hoarding for me, but I also mine on these on and off, which helps pay for the RUclips side of things.
At the end of the day, it always comes down to scene complexity increasing render times. If you have a scene with only minimal lights, little to no subsurface scattering and/or caustics, with very few unique items, then the math isn't too hard on your PC, and render times will speed up. But if you're trying to render a 8k file of candles burning underwater inside glass tesseracts, then those render times will climb and climb and climb, unless you take steps to prevent it. There's a real knack to learning how to maximise render settings, and rendering out alpha passes etc, to help composite things later, especially if any issues arise.
So 12 hours instead of 24, yay(?). All the pcs have the same specs?
Well these have new GPUs and they are much faster now. But I have a few Dell t3600 workstations with xeon e5-2690, 64 GB RAM. They can fit 2 dual slot GPUs or one larger one each. But I now have multiple other desktops too, which mostly have 2 GPUs each. I can render a few dozen frames per minute now, depending on the scene
those old Dell workstations I hate the power supplies in those things they suck..
Yeah they are pretty awful. Proprietary power supplies are a terrible idea, and they have very limited wattage constraints.
I am shocked to know that you said it is 50% faster than your computer, I mean just 50% !!!!!! If your computer takes 24 hrs to render a small video than this whole farm should do it in probably a few hours, i was thinking in minutes! but i am not an animator so i don't know much about it.
Well this short is pretty old now. My farm is currently faster by 3-5x vs my desktop, which has a 4090 GPU. So now the speed up is much more helpful than back then!
How much did it cost you to set up? Is it expensive? Is the power bill expensive?
Each PC costs about $500 if you buy them on eBay and buy a good GPU for each. I got the desktops themselves for free from my workplace. They get phased out and I am allowed to take them home, so I just had to add GPUs. You could easily get much cheaper GPUs from a few years ago, and they will render many times faster than processors can. And the power bill can definitely add up if they run for a long time. I think I figured a big render I am planning would take 3 full months, and would cost $1500 in electricity. Cheaper than paying a render farm but definitely not a small amount.
@@ContradictionDesign that’s great information, thank you 😊
I would recomend from seeing your setup to use a dual or triple gpusetup and find a good cpu motherboard combo from sites like newegg or microcenter so you wil have acess to ddr5 ram and 2 rtx 4090 even if someone says that that sounds dumb i think that will help to lower the eletricity bill 500w less over a year can be up to 4k
Bro has 4 pc's when i have 1650 ti on a laptop and a 10300h 😭
Hey! There are tons of these old dells for really cheap relatively. They are decent render helpers.
Damn
But how did you do it can you make a tutorial please😊
I do have two videos on my channel about how to set this up. I would watch those first. Then let me know if you have questions
The industry is not cheap 🤦♂️
No it's not cheap. But it is getting more power efficient per frame rapidly. So that is good
How long do graphics cards last in this environment? Do you ever turn them off, or have a huge ventilation system to cool them down?
Hi! They will last for many years with no problems. If they start to run a little slow, I just re-apply thermal paste and pads so they get their cooling capacity back. This room has one medium sized portable AC that is ducted outside for cooling.
When they do not have work for awhile, I may shut them off so they don't idle for no reason. I really should just configure wake-on-LAN, but I have not done so yet.
@@4hourfuneral It is certainly not a cheap process to re-pad and re-paste. I have not had to redo any of mine yet fortunately.
Wow that is some expensive hardware. I wish I had a gaming laptop to play most games without performance issues.
Yes I got quite lucky with having most of the PCs pay themselves off by mining. The rest is recycled from my workplace, so I got those for free.
which processor is best for rendering??
For CPU rendering, you want as many fast cores as possible. So a threadripper pro with 64 cores or something similar would be best. I don't do that. I use GPU. So for GPU rendering, you need enough cores to pass the data to the GPUs in the system. So for each GPU, I would try to get at least 4 cores.
For setting up scenes and sculpting and all the other work that happens first, I think a 16 core CPU is quite a good fit, and these are quite affordable nowadays.
what OSs are on the host machine and the farm?
All Windows 10 Pro
How taim to render anmation carton 1hors?
For cartoon style animations, an hour of animation would only take a few minutes. For a high realism animation, an hour of animation would likely take a day or two. I can run 3 minute renders on very high detail scenes in just a couple hours at most
Are you able to earn the render crypto token from renting your computer system?
You have to apply to join as a Render network worker. Then you install a software that runs the jobs. So yes, in theory I could do that with my equipment. Am hoping to switch to servers soon so I have a better system to apply with. But that might be a little ways off
What’s you power bill 😅
Yes it is!
Hahah between $600 and $1300 per month. But that is more from mining and trying to AC an old, poorly insulated house.
Which graphic card are you using for the render farm.?
Quite a few different ones actually. I have a Arc A770 16 GB, 6700 XT, 7800 XT, RTX 3080, 3080 Ti, 2080 Ti Kingpin, a dual 3090 setup. Basically I test them for the channel and they go into a worker for my projects or I do some mining on them.
if you don't mind can you tell me how much you charge for your project on average?
Hi there! So I have never actually been paid to render yet. I have used this for my own projects and for some rendering for friends. But I have not had any paid clients yet. I had at one point designed some Patreon tiers for monthly render farm access, but I have not had anyone request it yet.
Are you looking to hire a farm, or trying to build a farm yourself?
@@ContradictionDesign Just wanted to know, because all of these hardwares are expensive. And there is the electricity bill too.
@@leoulouchlamperz1055 Ok good question. I bought most of these by mining on them, and I turn them onto mining when times are good. Like right now, there is profit to be had. So that has mostly helped pay them off.
In the future, I hope RUclips and the animations I produce will help pay it off, but we shall see haha.
I am 14 and i am making special effects in blender . I really want to get the same farm for blender.my gtx 450 isn't best for this(((
Hey we all start somewhere! If you have a little money to spend, an old Maxwell series GPU from Nvidia will still work well in Blender. Keep learning and try to save up some cash and you will get there sometime.
Wouldn't it make more sense to just use a cloud renderfarm? How much do you need to render to make this farm worth its costs?
Well cloud rendering is very expensive, but you are correct. You do need lots of rendering work to put this farm to proper use. But I am doing my own rendering more and more, so it saves me tons of time
How fast do you render 30s?
I would say for 24 fps, and moderately difficult scenes, it would take about 2 hours to render those 30 seconds of animation. But, this varies widely based on the scene.
Is there a way to do this without a wifi connection...maybe like a crossover ethernet cable?
Yeah I just have these all booked up on Ethernet switches. Everything is hardwired. I am limited to 1Gbps currently, but someday I will upgrade to all 10Gbps switches, Ethernet adapters, and faster SSDs for the storage PC. But that's a big price tag
@@ContradictionDesign Thanks for replying!!
@@johnnyboy4194 you are welcome!
So cheap setup 👍
Gotta run what you have around.
Electricity bill?
Ohh my yes... $800
Do you use a GPU Riser to connect 2 GPU's in One PC? Riser, Just like what they use in BTC mining?
Inside of PC cases I do not use them. I am trying to configure an old mining rig to render with risers actually though. It would make building render farms easy. So far I have had trouble with rendering on risers but they should theoretically work. I will get a video out sometime showing what I find out.
@@ContradictionDesign I will try it myself then when I have time to do it. I'm just curious if it will really work. thanks.
How long would it take for the farm to complete an render?
Most of the short renders I run take a couple hours. I have had a few take more than a day. It varies a ton based on scene complexity so it is hard to estimate.
If you wanna do like a collab project to make more money we can talk I have big ideas for the market I’m aiming towards
What are you thinking? I'll hear out whoever has an idea.
Can this work on Unreal Engine? Is it possible to make this with a MacPro?
Hi! I do not know if Unreal Engine supports distributed rendering. At very least, you could use a separate iteration of Unreal on each PC, to render out your final frames. And yes, this setup should work on Mac Pro, as long as you can remote into them from other machines.
Am google Cloud rendering for my potato laptops just want to rander nice images.
Do you know some good ones and if there are open source.
Well I know sheepit allows you to render for them to build credits, and then use their farm with the credits. That is not necessarily free but you don't have to pay cash. Otherwise, many of them are expensive to hire. I have never really needed to use one though. You mean render farms right?
@@ContradictionDesign Google told me the called Cloud rendering but yes.
If the want money sure if a make a movie but I just want some images. It'd not like i rander gb of work
@@longlivethesecondplaceice2736 ohh I see! Yeah sheepit may be a good one to try then. Hope you find one! If not let me know, and we can work something out maybe.
Can recommend sheepit too. Using it for more than 2 years. Max file size to upload is 500MB, but you actually don‘t need to build up credits (by rendering for others) its just a priority system where users relative to their score get their seat in the queue. It‘s quite an active community where the service is even idle (has nothing in the queue) so without credits, you will get results too.
How much faster does a 30sec animation take?
Basically it takes 20 hours for my PC or 10 hours with PC plus render farm.
Normally at 1080p 30fps, my workstation renders frames in about 1 to 1.5 minutes per frame. For a 30 second animation this would be 900 frames, which would need about 20 hours to render. The render farm nearly doubles that speed, so with my workstation plus render farm, I get it done in 10 hours. The real benefit is that I can start to run a render on the farm while I keep making new scenes to render on my workstation. I plan on adding a dual 3080 ti PC to the farm, so my render speed will be 3x faster than just my workstation on its own.
@@ContradictionDesign aawesome
😮😮😮😮😮
So exciting, i have dell precision 7810 workstation comes with quadro gpu and i have one personal cpu with gtx 1060. Can i cluster these both desktops for rendering?
Absolutely. I use Windows 10 pro with the remote desktop app inside windows. I set up each PC on the same local wired network, then create a shared folder on one of them. You can open your .blend file in each PC so they keep the same settings, then render separate frames on each one. This makes you open the file on each PC and manually start the render, but it's way faster than just using your main PC to render. I plan on putting a full explanation on my channel to help people set this up, since it's a little tricky.
@@ContradictionDesign cant wait for this video!
@@PopoRamos I uploaded part 1 of 2 for my Render Farm Tutorial this morning. Part 2 will be tonight. Just thought you might be interested.
@@ContradictionDesign off course! I’ll update you tomorrow on the new card as well (I missed the delivery and I had to sign it)
@@PopoRamos That GPU will blow your mind I think. Real time shading is very close to reality
What is bro making in blender with that?
Hey! I render my own projects and projects for friends occasionally. I have not finished enough animations lately, but I am kind of in a learning mode right now anyway. But I enjoy making characters and running fluid simulations like my short videos.
@@ContradictionDesign ok
dude needs Unreal for real
I have really wanted to learn unreal engine.
What gpu's are used?
Most of these had rtx 3060 ti at the time. I will be slowly upgrading them to Rtx A4000 or Rtx 3090, for more VRAM.
Is it diesel powered?
Haha now there's an idea. If fuel prices were lower.....
@@ContradictionDesign It could be, TRUMP 2024 BABY!!!! 💥💥💥💥
@@blackfileNepal YEEAAH!!!
How tf can u connect different PC to one PC ?????
Using shared folders and a local network, it is not too hard. Here is my old tutorial for how to set it up, if you need.
ruclips.net/video/n5FklepHZhs/видео.html
It is long, and has two parts. But it should help if you need to setup something like this.
use google collab
I will look at it, thank you!
Bro kya laptop (under 1 lack) kam kra ga blender ka liya please bhi reply ❤❔
I do not understand your question sorry. What was that?
The Overwatch porn makers be like:
Hahaha probably!
Wanna collab i have 5 rtx 3090s
Hey yeah just go ahead and send those 3090s over and I will put em to use.
Haha but really, these Dells dont work for 3090 unfortunately. They lack the ability to power more than 300 watts for GPU power.
😎😎😎
Thanks!
Thank god my electricity is free😅
Yeah, my power bills hurt in the summer, to say the least
this cryptocurrency crash allowed me to purchased like 13 graphic cards, range from rx570, 580 5600xt and 1660s, I intend to buy former mining equipments such as those motherboards with multiple pciex1 lanes and risers, I found some very long motherboards with pciex16 lanes but those ones have laptop ram slot, only one slot only, which really made me not interested in buying. Bought way too many cards for collection and decoration purpose, now I don't want to let them inside the boxes without use, I like to build a rendering rig just like yours.
I have doubts that the mining boards would be good for rendering. But I have not tested yet. It's too bad they are limited to one slot for ram. It would certainly be easier to setup with mining hardware though.
@@ContradictionDesign yeah the big blockade is the speed of those pciex1, those bottleneck everything, even if this mining turn rendering rig thing turn out suck, at least I still have a machine to warm up all my cards so they won't turn into bricks. I don't want to sell these back to vendors for even cheaper price at all even I know that all of these cards can be traded for an RTX3070 at least in my country for around 350-400 usd
@@MinhNguyen-uv4gd yeah the 1x lanes make it hard. I have thought about get older xeon or threadripper boards with more lanes to make better machines. But even old setups are pricey
@@ContradictionDesign indeed, minus the already had GPUs, if I plan correctly for my cheapskate rendering rig, a H81 Colorful board with 5 pcie x1 lanes and 1 pcie x16 lane, a CPU I3-4130, 16GB DDR3 1600 Buss, a 240GB SSD with OS and 2TB of HDD and of course an open air mining rack would cost me 130 USD which is still a decent amount of cash for a rig with rendering power might not comparable to a 2060 lol
@@MinhNguyen-uv4gd well the newer cards with RT and Tensor cores are much faster at rendering. But you can do quite a bit of work with the ones you have too
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Thanks!
Oh nononono…..
Oh my yes.....
now that we have 4090, we don't need all of those
Well eventually, these will all be filled with 4090s ( or something smaller haha)
@@ContradictionDesign That would be cool
@@raghuchandra yeah I am hoping someday to have that much power
Do you use no-breaks?
What do you mean by no-breaks?
@@ContradictionDesign UPS, uninterruptible power supply
@@LucasTbooker ohhh. No I do not. I do need at least one so I can keep the internet devices and switches from losing power on flickers. Because that has caused ip problems. Otherwise not yet
@@ContradictionDesign so you only use clampers then? Thx btw for the anwer
@@LucasTbookerI don't think I have clampers? I have 6 outlets wired from my main breaker with 110v and 20 amp each. They do not have GFCI or anything, just rely on the breakers for overload protection. I am sorry my electrical terminology knowledge is apparently not up to snuff.
can you show your final seen thats you realy need this setup? please show your work
All of my simulations and animations are rendered on here. I also run renders for friends. The biggest advantage is that I can preview a set of frames in minutes instead of hours.
But I will be posting more finished renders over time. They take me a long time to make currently, because life has been busy.
Can assure you i think hes a furry based on his work
Haha no I mostly just enjoy the fantasy genre from my time with video games. Plus, I find it easier to work with non-human characters because they are more interesting and easier for me to make. Human characters are very difficult to get right, due to uncanny valley, and I am not good at making humans yet haha.
How much its cost u?😊
Very hard to know for sure, because the gpus were slowly paid off by mining on them. The desktops were free to me, because they were being recycled at work. Then I upgrade them with more RAM, better CPU, and bettter power supplies. So that part was probably a couple thousand total. The GPUs were probably $6K taking a completely wild guess. So I would guess about $8k at the time. Obviously, these are worth much less now. But they get lots of use rendering or mining if it is worthwhile
wow thats a good way of making cash,
If you can find clients, it can be a huge income. I have not used it for client work yet. Just me and my friends mostly so far.
Nerd… lol nice good stuff
Haha thanks!
What specs they have brother?
Hi! I actually just posted a video the other day that is more up to date than this short! But the specs are basically 4 old dells with 8 core xeon CPUs and 2 newer PCs with i5 cpus. My desktop has a 5950x CPU
Each machine has 1 or 2 RTX 30 series gpus. 10 gpus total, including my desktop, which has an RTX 4090.
Total Render speed in FP16 = 280 TFlops.
@@ContradictionDesign Yeah bro i just saw the sheet in excel, really cool man, since im not doing heavy renders right now, i want to upgrade my gpu, but i dont have to much money i have a 1080ti i was planning on getting a 2080ti or 3070ti
@@stormk-1130 I would try to get the 30 series cards or higher if possible. The raster speed is a bit faster each generation, but the ray tracing and ai cores are significantly faster each round. So a 3070 ti is a fantastic card for rendering!
That must kill you In electric bills 💵
It is very expensive in Summer, and replaces my heaters in the winter. So it's bad but not tooooo bad haha
hey bro are you here, it's mining ha ha Joke,
Tell me more about 3D rendering I want know more I am curious but idk about how creater testing, where start how study it.. etc bro, thanks
Actually these GPUs started off as mining rigs. This is the only way I could afford them. And since I do not make money on 3d artwork at this point, I needed a way to get GPUs to pay for themselves. Now they are paid for, so they get to "retire" to rendering haha. Rendering and mining both use GPUs very well, so this worked out well.
3D files contain multiple types of data that the designer creates. This includes the 3d models, colors, textures, lighting, reflections, etc. This info makes no sense on its own to humans. Rendering is how a computer converts all of these different inputs into a pretty picture for us to enjoy. This is a very heavy workload. It uses the entire CPU and all GPUs if you allow it to. So having all of these extra machines to do the rendering just allows me to continue to work on new files while finished ones get rendered.
@@ContradictionDesign I wanted to make money mining but did not got in time and mindset, mature money etc O.O :)
@@ContradictionDesign if we find way make money doing things we like and enough to good life is wonderful haha
@@yvessriccaldone9499 I do actually have a few miners running still. I will mine forever I think. But it is a bit riskier now to start. Gotta see what the next couple of months look like with the merge in ETH.
@@yvessriccaldone9499 This is absolutely the goal!
This will complete 1 frame in 1 frame in real life.
No matter how many PCs I have, I always get one frame per frame 🤔
how to make the electric bill skyrocket hahaha
Haha can confirm
@@ContradictionDesign as a broke brazilian dude my thoughts always go to the cost first. 😂
@@LOBOTOMIAxoxo As it should. People forget to consider power costs and go buy cheap PCs. Then the real expense starts.
@@ContradictionDesign i have a cheap pc cause it was the only i could afford 🤣
@@LOBOTOMIAxoxo oh I more mean that some people will buy 8 very old Kepler GPUs to save some cash, and then the power bill kills it. I know not everyone can get a new PC. Are you by chance a Blender or a 3d user?
Time to switch to unreal that cant be cost effective
It has many inefficiencies. But my next version will be compact servers. And I really want to dive into unreal engine once I get the time!
Why not just use a mining rig
I actually have tried one. It was an AMD GPU rig and I had issues with drivers installing. I have been meaning to try it again though. The 1x lane risers may bottleneck loading frames. But that is a great use for old rigs for sure!