Glimpse, regarding your queries, you can get a good bit of info on our website and I recommend reading the description there. However, I will shortly respond as follows to your 'concerns/questions':
The GPU Turbine is a ventilated enclosure for a cluster of graphic cards. You can use your own main board. Though the idea would be of course to use one with as many PCIe slots as possible. There are numerous options available for risers that can be used with the GPU Turbine, including 3M's coaxial 16x speed cables and while these limit placement options due to their maximum 500mm length limit, they're awesome quality. There are also a number of 16x to 1x riser manufacturers which allow up to 5M cable lengths. More details on the cable/connection options to follow.Glimpse wrote: * what is the mobo driving this,
* what is the quality of risers/ribon cables,
* at what speeds those links operate,
Merely removing your GPU's from the case and resting them on your mothers dry rack will already improve their performance - this is why you see bitcoiners putting cards in crates and other weird setups. We will issue the details as soon as they are available.Glimpse wrote: next bunch is about fan/grill, looks/quality..
* how good the fan, how much airflow it provides,
* how that bent acrylic/plastic going to look in real world..
* what is additional cost of this, compared to DIY box'ed solution
* what is the value, compared to watercooling.
Form follows function.Glimpse wrote:to sum up, there are a lot of questions & I believe Guys creating this already thought out true majority of them. Just curious how much thought goes into looks & how much into performance boost..'cos if it works as it could..-this might be one of the best aircooled solutions, if it slips on the looks/build quality & doesn't deliver additional boost - then it's quite, I'd say, matter of taste.
The I/O speed difference with Octane and most other data centric GPU apps is not as significant as most people think - we will publish some information on this also in due course. Also, for animation, the scene is already loaded and does not need to be reloaded to do a sequence of frames - so no pain there.Glimpse wrote:Just to ilustrate, I love Amfeltecks GPU cluster as a solution, but it has one flaw in my eyes - connection speed is way too slow, unless You're using it only when You need to crunch big stills - in animations or trying to have fast update when You working with larger projects..it would be painful! I'd love to see them bumping that speck a bit to 8x or even 16x..
Hope that helps. In the meanwhile, please be a little patient as we put the product through its paces.
Best,
Seeker
