again...hardware for octane

[blacky00900]

Hello!

I also have a question about the hwardware for octane render.
At home a have computer with Dual core AMD x2 4200+ and 4 gigs of ram. Not really the fastest machine.

Now, i don´t have enough money to buy a complete new machine so i thought about only to buy a new graphic card as the CPU isn´t that important for octane - for creating architectural visualization. Maybe for now it´s enought to work (sure, it depends what i want to do...)? Or does the CPU or ram make also octane very slow?

What do you think??

thanks for any comment..

regards
Michael

[radiance]

Hi,

We recommend buying an Nvidia Geforce GTX470 or GTX480 GPU.
We also recommend you check with the shop that sells them to see if it's compatible with your system, eg it needs a PCI-E slot.

Yours,
Radiance

[CGicore]

Will you support ATI cards in version 2?
Cause at work I'm running a Quadro 4800 so I can run my tests there, but at home an ATI FireGL v.5600 card.
I was thinking to upgrade my card later on.

[radiance]

Hi,

We cannot make any promises yet with regards to hardware compatibility with ATI cards.
It depends on how the industry/SDKs will fair during the coming months.
If OpenCL catches up with CUDA we should be able to make an OpenCL version in v2.0.

Radiance

[CGicore]

Fair enough. as long you keep supporting Nvidia i'm fine as i'm thinking to upgrade my old card.

[radiance]

Definately consider getting a GTX470 or GTX480, you will love it with octane.

Radiance

[CGicore]

Radiance,

I'm just wondering, what will happen if I need to render a scene that requires more than 1.5 GB rams (GTX 480) from the video card?
My work is mainly still images and character/creature work. I don't do any animation work.

My system at home is
GA-EX58-UD4 Motherboard
i7 860 - 2.8 GHz
8 GB rams
ATI FireGL v.5600 (thinking to upgrade it soon)

I didn't heard good things about gtx 480. Around the net, people do say this monster card is to expensive for what it can be delivered, the best bet is to wait or get a gtx 260 card that also supports CUDA.

I am not a techy savy, so I can only rely on what the net says overall.

[havensole]

Pretty much anyone here will tell you that the gtx480 is awesome for octane. It is a monster, but a monster that will render like no other. I have 2 gtx470's that is amazing compared to the gts250 and 8800gt I use to use. For gaming and whatnot I will leave that to the hardcore people who gripe about ridiculous frame-rates.

[CGicore]

@havensole,

Thanks m8. Just 1 thing, will 2 gtx 260 SLI better than get 1 gtx 480?

I am not interest in games.

[havensole]

Nope. 2x gtx260's will only give you 432 cores. That is less then 1 gtx470. If you are really strapped, check out the new gtx465. It has 352 cores and goes for just under $300 USD. It only has 1gb of ram though. Also you don't want to use SLI, it just screws everything up. If you use multiple gpu's you leave them disconnected from each other and just let the software combine their power. Make sure to buy stock, non-overclocked gpus as OC'd cards can give problems with Octane. That will also save you a few bucks.