What Bill is suggesting is buying a server similar too those found in
offices and running povray on that. What you're thinking of is buying a
bare-bones system to run POV. If you did that you'd still need the
keyboard, mouse and videocard (at the very least to install Windows
etc.) but you could save on the monitor by having a switch box (using
your existing monitor) or running it remotely using a piece of software
such as CarbonCopy. Networking is getting very cheap and what you're
suggesting is entierly possible, all you would need is the two network
cards, a cable and the software (Windows.) I've been doing this
successfully for nearly a year and only had a few minor problems.

	Graham.

Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
> Steve <ste### [at] puzzlecraftcom> wrote in message
> news:379AF3E8.AF37E7C3@puzzlecraft.com...
> >
> >
> > A low budget solution is to get a dual Pentium Dell server and run it as a
> > workstation.
> >
> 
>     Can you elaborate on this a little? I have been having some sort of
> thought like this... getting a box and a motherboard and a network card and
> using that box to do nothing but renders. No keyboard, monitor, mouse,
> soundcard, videocard, with smallest possible HD, lots of RAM...
> 
>     But, since I have never done any networking but some serial port copying
> of HDs...

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