I'm actually in the same situation. I can only answer your first question about render farms;
I recently inquired at http://ultrarender.com/. But they currently only offer workstations with 4x GTX 970 cards. I need at least 6GB VRAM so this wouldn't work for me. Also the difference in speed isn't ...

Hi Akira,
Thanks for your reply. A single frame takes about 7 minutes on one GPU, so the slave should have enough time to catch up..

Hi guys,
I have a problem with network rendering in 3ds max 2015.
When rendering from the octane viewport my slave is rendering together with the master.
But when I use the production render from 3ds max (or witch batch render), my node's GPU spikes sometimes but remains inactive.
I'm using version ...

Thanks a lot!

Hi Thomas,
thanks for your reply.
I was thinking about that before, but I can't find a 2.06 version from the client download page..
It seems I can only download the 2.04 or am I missing something?
Cheers

Hi everyone,
I'm having trouble getting network rendering to work in 3ds max 2014.
I've seen several people with the same problem on the forum but I couldn't find a solution..

In the network preferences within 3ds max, I can see my slave Daemon, but the name is unknown, it reads 0 GPU devices and ...