Your online calculator gave me a projected turnaround time of 20 minutes. Does that mean that you can render my 45-hour render in 20 minutes?
Our online calculator provides a number of different processors for the sake of comparison with the systems we have in place.
To the extent that you chose the correct processor (or at least a very similar one), then the projected turnaround times and costs should be fairly close to the actual outcome.
We have no control over the interactive choices you made while using the online calculator so we cannot guarantee the factual accuracy of the calculation performed.
The online calculator, due to its very nature, cannot take everything into consideration.
In general, however, it has proven itself to be fairly accurate.
Our render nodes are all Windows XP Pro 64-bit system with Intel Q6600 processors and 8 GB RAM. Both of these factors are not reflected in the online calculator. As such, we may be much faster than the online calculator will report, especially if your system has less memory and operates on a 32-bit version of Windows.
