Sweet. Good to hear. What chassis and power are you using?

My setup looks like that:
AKiTiO Thunder2 PCIe Box + Molex to barrel power supply for Akitio + EVGA SuperNOVA 1200 P2 Power Supply (I'm going to add more cards in near future) + EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+

MR

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Sweet. Good to hear. What chassis and power are you using?

Thanks
KJ

PS. I was curious if the next OSX update will affect Octane in any way (with the introduction of rootless)?

Edit: I said rootless but meant "Metal".

Will the process essentially be the same for a different card?

Will it be an issue having mixed GPUs, AMD from the stock nMP and those from the eGPU?


Nope, shouldn't be an issue. I'm doing that right now. Its honestly the only benefit to holding on to the default AMD card that apple throws in. Allows you to render the OS on the AMD card, and then set Octane ...

Ok, then you could probably do it. I don't think it'll hold too many cards though. Even with an external PSU, I think you'd probably only be able to fit one or two modern GPUs in it. You'd probably be better off with an eGPU at this point.


Thanks for you input.

Will it be an issue having mixed ...

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Yeah, thats pretty old. While you could definitely do it, I wouldn't recommend it. You do need a decent CPU as well just for the export from your 3D package to Octane. I have a 2012 Mac Pro and made sure to get the best CPU it could get, then replaced the GPU with a Titan ...

dotcommer wrote:What do you mean by "first gen"? Can you give us a model number? There have been at least five generations of the mac pro.

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Hi All,

Is it possible to create a setup like this using a old MacPro (1st Gen) box?

KJ

I too am waiting to see what is released next week. Then I can buy a PC card and flash it for mac. Can't wait to try Octane.

KJ