Advice on building a dedicated 1080ti Render station?
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 12:02 am
Hi there,
I co-run a small studio and we currently have 3 workstation computers. Up to this point we've done all our rendering with dual 980ti's in each of our workstations, or used an online render farm, but we just upgraded to a single 1080ti in each workstation, and we would like to build a dedicated 1080ti render station for a bigger project that is just about to start.
We don't necessarily need to use this render station for anything but rendering, and we would like to build something with the option of expanding this down the road for future projects. I'm not sure the best approach at this point.
I'm assuming using Octane network rendering is the idea here, but does anyone have any advice on what type of rig(s) would make the most sense for dedicated rendering and not for actual animation? Or how many 1080ti's would the most make sense in each tower? Would really appreciate the advice, Thanks!
I co-run a small studio and we currently have 3 workstation computers. Up to this point we've done all our rendering with dual 980ti's in each of our workstations, or used an online render farm, but we just upgraded to a single 1080ti in each workstation, and we would like to build a dedicated 1080ti render station for a bigger project that is just about to start.
We don't necessarily need to use this render station for anything but rendering, and we would like to build something with the option of expanding this down the road for future projects. I'm not sure the best approach at this point.
I'm assuming using Octane network rendering is the idea here, but does anyone have any advice on what type of rig(s) would make the most sense for dedicated rendering and not for actual animation? Or how many 1080ti's would the most make sense in each tower? Would really appreciate the advice, Thanks!