Thanks a lot Chris.

It's working fine now.

Cheers,
Guy.

Hello,

I've upgraded everything here, Lightwave to version 11.6.3, Octane (standalone) to v2.0 and Lightwave Octane Plugin to v2.0.

I have a working installation of Octane v2.0 Standalone, no problem here.

However, in Lightwave I get an error message from the Octane plugin:

Can't authenticate ...

Just curious, are you guys aware of this?:
http://vimeo.com/user2182154

Cheers,
Guy.

I understand,

my rendering targets are HD, Full HD and 2K ( 1:85 ).

I can already see the near linear speedup at these resolutions, both in path tracing and direct lighting modes.

That's really great.

I'll be able to start some tests for our feature length 3d animation projects, to decide if we ...

Hello,

I got the 4x GTX 480 working now.. How ? I'm actualy not sure and this is still a mystery to me..

Check the Asus forum where I posted there about my issue :

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20100707184738781&board_id=1&model=Rampage%20III%20Extreme&SLanguage=en-us

Everything is ...

I've seen the GPU-X but it seems you can't chain those. No, but you can add a GPU-Xpander PCIe adapter for every open PCIe slot you have in your PC. For instance, on the Asus Rampage III Extreme motherboard, you could attach a Cubix x8 or x1 PCIe adapter to each open slot (approximately $350 price ...

He's got some photos of his special case+mb+PSU somewhere on the forums, can't remember where though...
maybe use the search function on the forum.

Radiance

Thanks Radiance, found it :
http://www.tyan.com/product_SKU_spec.aspx?ProductType=BB&pid=412&SKU=600000150

That said, I've just ...

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1x GTX480 = 4.40 Msamples/sec
2x GTX480 = 8.60 Msamples/sec
4x GTX480 = 16.67 Msamples/sec
8x GTX480 = 32.20 Msamples/sec

2x GTX480 = (8.60/4.40)/2 = 0.97727
4x GTX480 = (16.67/4.40)/4 = 0.94715
8x GTX480 = (32.20/4.40)/8 = 0.91477

It's really perfect !!
It's more than expected !!
I am happy ...