how did i do for my rendering server?
keep in mind that the xeons are EOL and you can get them for 50 dollars on ebay.
The ram is for a ramdisk in combination with a 10GbE card (p2p, switches are too expensive). I already have 6 1TB drives which I will reuse.
The RAM can also be hand for as little as 100 dollars for 64GB on ebay.
The case is a 4U rackmount which ill buy on ebay. Its like 50 dollars.
The total is ~1000 and I dont want to spend more than 1000.
Meh
you sure you want to skimp on the psu quality
might want to get 2 for redundancy