again...hardware for octane

[Amplitude]

Or if your are (very) confident with your tech ability you can go the other way around:

to give you some figures about this setup:
I had 2 gtx285 stacked on top of each other , very classic setup.
It's quite hot these days here so the ambient temp is around 25-28°c inside.
At iddle the top card was at 67°c and the second one at 55°c
During load, both cards were at 84°c.

Now that they are watercooled they are both at 47°c idle and ... 52-55°c at full load with Octane.
With only one card rendering, the temp doesn't even bother to go up.

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How you manage the flow?
From the pump to CPU (if exists) to GPU1 to GPU2 to cooler and back to the pump?
Or use you T-adapters?

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[Amplitude]

Like this:

[face]

Ah ok, thanks.
I have only one radiator(360x360x60) passive for the CPU.
I think it should go with one fermi in line with the CPU, active then...


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[chrishau]

i think the best option is the gtx 470 or 480 and the price is very cheap compared with quadro cards, i spent around 4 grand but know i will have to buy a gtx 480 or a Tesla C2050 / C2070 GPU
cause they have more cuda processors than the quadro models and they will rock with octane, tesla is expensive but gtx 480 is cheap, im doing some research and these are the best cards for render with octane.

if you have the money dont think about it, just do it !!!!

i spend some grand buying Matchstudio before i knew the existance of Octane render at a incredible price and Matchstudio can´t be compared with this amazing software.

regards to every one.

[Florinmocanu]

It will be more OpenCL coming to Octane, not DX11. OpenCL is still in early development, but with the increased desire for it for rendering purposes I can see its development growing faster. When we will see this come to Octane is up in the air, and whether or not ATI will be better is anyone's guess. It is not just how many gflops a processor has, but how the software can utilize them. Memory management is a big thing when looking at gpgpu applications and some do it well, and others do not. We will see. I am optimistic even though this might not sound that way.

V 2.0 will bring displacement (aka tesselation), subsurface scattering etc... At least displacement cannot be done if the Video card is not DX 11 compliant, so DX 11 will come to Octane at some point.