Hardware Recommendations for Rendering

From a user:

Would you be able to get me hardware recommendations for using the rendering software

We do not use the graphics card, so it is just the processor speed and memory.
This was posted on the nXt forum:

 nXt is very processor dependent-- the fastest one with the most cores will generally produce the best results.

Our recommendation is to use the fastest 64 bit processor, with the most cores and as much RAM that you can get.

We also found that using the Amazon Web Service to do the rendering in the cloud, can really speed things up, once you get it set up.

Here is a forum posting Al made which shows some of our rendering speeds compared to what we could do using the Amazon Web Service:

http://forum.irendernxt.com/forum/topics/using-amazon-web-services-for-faster-renderings

He explains how to use AWS with IRender nXt here:

http://wiki.renderplus.com/index.php?title=Setting_up_AWS

We have not heard back from users who are using the AWS for rendering, but it might an option worth looking into.