ya, that didn't surprise me.... just wanted to give a heads up since the previous demo didn't trigger it.

i just got the system below and am trying octane on it. built/bought from ibuypower.com at ~$4500 (after discounts). one problem with the setup is the lack of being able to use 4-pci-e cards. that board isn't laid out for it.

as you, i run 3ds max and want octane to run. right now though, the demo ...

...now that's just going to be cruel. but my system is a day early in delivery so maybe by the weekend i'll be able to test scenes and renders.

No, Octane is not capable of using multiple computers in a typical render farm setup.

But my understanding is that it will be capable of using multiple GPUs on the same computer, which is very similar.

That's not true, you can batch octane to render animations on a farm as big as you want.
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Another thing to keep in mind when putting together machines for rendering is that you can now get motherboards with quite a few PCI-e slots. For example the ASUS "supercomputer" X58 board which I think has 7 PCI-e slots. That means you don't have to have all the overhead of the rest of the ...

well right now the main rig in the office has the specs below, obviously the new rig will kick it around a little. using CPU rendering, i have an animation that is churning away at 18-22min frame. that's where i abuse the office network farm and steal cpu power from everyone else. helps having 10pc ...

I came across Octane in my search for a GPU render plugin or software that I can dump my 3ds Max 2009 animations to. I was curious to know if Octane is capable of using a Network Farm to render animation sequences. The majority of the systems that I'd e able to network to have nVidia 8800's or ...