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    Our 3D department is wanting to utilize the Architecture Departments PCs as a render farm for their 3DsMax work. I'm wondering what sort of negative impacts (if any) there might be on our machines if this occurs. We run AutoCAD 2012 and Revit Architecture 2012 on the Arch PCs. The use would be during non office hours.
    All PCs are nicely equipped HPs w/ 64 bit technology.

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    I set one up in Singapore a few years back doing exactly that -- using the existing cad machines to render frames for 3ds max. Impact on the cad boxes during the day was minimal even if the rendering was going on concurrently with cad work -- and non-existent if rendering happened after hours. The rendering process ran at a lower priority than the interactive processes, and could use multiple cores, so Acad really was not affected. One would hope that the technology has improved since then....

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    These days, you might see a greater impact if rendering while trying to use Autocad.

    The latest CPUs will turbo up a single core to a faster speed if other cores are sitting idle, so rendering in the background might inhibit the turbo mode.

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