Got it in one!  P3-500 downstairs connected through phone cables (whopping
1mb/s) renders all-day now and AMD TBird 800 shuts up at night

Peter Cracknell

"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
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> In article <3A10F7AD.E970DC87@diescreaming.com> , Brandan Whearty
> <spa### [at] diescreamingcom>  wrote:
>
> > Oh, to be semi-up to date.  My 233/Rev. A iMac has a fan that sounds
like an
> '82
> > escort when it really gets humming.
>
> I was talking about the current iMacs, not the two year old ones.
>
> My point merely was that buying any computer which is quiet enough to
leave
> on all day and night, even if it is only half the speed of the noisy ones
> will ultimately be more effective:  If you can leave the noisy one on 8
> hours a day compared to 24 hours of the half the speed one, well, the half
> the speed one will still be 50% faster when rendering complex scenes.
>
> No reason for a major discussion ;-)   Just buy a slow one ($300) for your
> room and connect the two via Ethernet :-)
>
>
>     Thorsten

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