Cue licensing on a per core basis in 3...2...1...
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Freelance 3-D Animator, F/X Artist
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From: Joe Laffey <joe(at)laffey.tv>
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 8:24:29 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] graphics card
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Morten Bartholdy wrote:
> Regarding the Quad Core Xeons - I just tested a box fresh in from my hardware
> pusher - it was 4,8 times faster at pure raytracing than my dual Xeon 3,4 GHz
> i bought a year ago!
>
> I am waiting for the pricetag, but it makes sense to get one of those to
> replace yor renderboxes instead of forking out for more MR licenses.
Yet another reason the render node pricing is ridiculous. People end up
buying more hardware, and not giving any more money to SoftImage. Price
render nodes reasonably and it might be the other way around.
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