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Subject: Re: ScreamerNet Questions
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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 16:09:15 EDT
From: Mark Thompson <mark@westford.ccur.com>
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> Well, how many mips does the Raptor put out?
MIPs are meaningless. Using SPECmarks is a much better means of comparison
but even that is not entirely reliable.
> a 486-66 motherboard w/CPU will only be around $400-$500
You need a lot more than just motherboards to put together a render farm.
> If I'm not mistaken the Pentium-100 will put out
> 260 mips (I'll check on this though) and with those systems ranging
> around $5k, they look promising.
CPU MHz Sint92 Sfp92
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R4400 150 94.5 105.2
Pentium 100 100.0 80.6
The R4400 has the advantage because rendering is inherently more floating
point intensive. NEC currently has a 133MHz R4400 WinNT box that goes for
$3400. This is considerably better than $5k for a Pentium system.
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