Image attached to show the problem, Max / Octane will just stop rendering a frame part of the way through. In most cases it will render a few frames (in this instance it made it to frame 13 for added spookiness!), and then it will get part way through a frame and then just stop doing anything. The ...

So I guess there's no intermediate solution other than going for a full watercooling solution then?

Yeah it's a tough one, could do with a mini air-con unit that sits inside the machine instead

Thanks, yes some sub-surface scattering would really help to sell the small scale of the character. I might revisit that if I get time. I didn't solve the displacement issue in the end, I just used a higher resolution mesh and then a normal map.

Our response to the NVIDIA request to recreate their image.

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/112156822[/vimeo]

Do we have 'rendering chops'?... with Octane, yes we do!


Original NVIDIA post here: https://twitter.com/nvidia/status/526041124470001664

So You get 240 RAD with in with fans, then PUMP/RES combo, from here TUBE should go to GPUs (water blocks). After those I’d put 360 RAD (3x120mm) on ceilings. Mounting fans on top of the frame will give You a possibility to mount quite thick radiator bellow. From this top mounted RAD TUBE would go ...

Thanks so much of all the effort guys, the solutions look great, will have a thorough read through and start costing things up, all makes sense so far though.

smicha - yeah totally with you on the 4xTitanZ thing, I think what we'd do is as we'll likely be getting a couple more machines early next ...

Parts are as described above, 2 machines are the main concern at the moment

Machine 1:-

GIGABYTE GA-X79-UP4 (rev. 1.0) motherboard
3x EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Superclocked ACX Cooler 3GB GDDR5 (03G-P4-2884)
1500W PSU
In a phantom 530 case


Machine 2:-
GIGABYTE GA-X79-UP4 (rev. 1.0) motherboard
6x ...

Starting a new thread so not to just hijack rappet's thread ( http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=43119 )

We are regularly using 3 machines with a total of 11x 780 Ti SC cards with Octane. We were regularly getting overheating problems so used the EVGA precision software to throttle ...

Yeah I'll start a new topic, sorry for the hijack rappet!

I can't take the credit for the component selection, ASyme1 helped me with the build options