Hi everyone,
I'm French, so sorry for my english mistakes
I'm motion designer and associate in a Digital Agency, based in Lyon, France.
I love Octane, I work with a dual 980ti in my workstation with Cinema 4D, I want to invest on a Water Cooled Render Farm with 7x1080ti GPU, for rendering in octane (of course) and use both for "live preview" through Ethernet Network.
I'm really impress on what smicha do on his last build-log with 7 GPUs 1080gtx
I invite you to check on his youtube channel for details https://www.youtube.com/user/smicha7/videos
and the configuration :
http://www.overclock.net/t/1618497/build-log-14x-gtx-1080-watercooled-octane-render-network-workstation
really impressive !!
but after read many topics, I still have few questions.
I could directly ask to smicha, but I prefer post here, maybe can be useful for someone
So my questions are :
- Is it really necessary to get 2 xeon cpu to drive 7 gpu, only for use octane render as slave, or an i5 / i7 CPU is enough ?
In this case its very difficult to find a recent motherboard with 7 slots PCIe and a Single CPU...
- I think 1080 and 1080ti are very closed, but Smicha's build log still compatible with 1080ti GPU ?
- I don't have the same skill to cut and i/o bracket like smicha but if I buy a gpu without DVI port like the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AERO 11G OC and replace with this single slot bracket : https://shop.aquacomputer.de/product_info.php?language=en&products_id=3657 would be ok ?
- 1 gbps LAN is it enough or I need a 10Gbits LAN between my workstation and the cluster, to avoid slowing render through the network ?
- I read that it's pretty difficult for the motherboard to recognize 7 GPU, and smicha says that a custom Bios is required ?
Is it difficult to set up ?
Thanks for your answers