I have a GTX260 for windows display and a GTX480 for octane rendering. The 480 is quite loud even when not used.

Is it possible to somehow deactivate/reactivate it when I dont need it (without taking it out physicaly)?

Thanks in advance
Chris

how about documentation? is that only available for the licensed version like the exporter plugins?

i turned physx on for the 480 and it works now :-) thx

one follow up question though: when i use multiple (both) cards in the device manager the status msg under the render viewport window reports the same value as when i only use the 260 (but still reporting working in multiple gpu mode). is that ...

Hi all,

I have a main gtx260 and a secondary gtx480. the main is for win 7(64) os display (that's where the monitor is connected) and the gtx480 should be for octane.

right now with the cuda-z tool i see that both cards are recognized/detected.

in the octane demo i only am able to use the 260 ...

thanks for all the info!

the gt240 is meant for standard display stuff not for octane.

right now i render mainly with blender, yafaray and luxrender.

but i would like to be able to expand my hardware so that i can work with octane too.

as i have no experience with more than one graphics card in a pc i just want to make ...

I am in the process of ordering a new pc for rendering.

I did some reading on the forums here and want to make sure I understood correctly.

Would it be possible to start with a GT240 now and add a GTX480 later. So I would use the GT240 now for both display and rendering but later I could switch ...