Questions before Beta Purchase

[radiance]

hi,

8600GT is old and quite slow, it won't make for a smooth editing experience...
If you like using octane i'd consider investing in a new GTX400 series card, it makes octane completely different, it's much faster.

Radiance

[pyungwonlee]

hi,

8600GT is old and quite slow, it won't make for a smooth editing experience...
If you like using octane i'd consider investing in a new GTX400 series card, it makes octane completely different, it's much faster.

Radiance

we managed to get octane working on a windows 7 32-bit platform...! strangely it's an ion netbook hahaha.
we've decided to purchase octane render beta, but the one question that remains is regarding hardware.
the firm is looking to purchase several video cards between 100 and 200 euros.
i've read many forum posts regarding this matter, and my guess is between GTX260 or the Quadro FX580?
please correct me if i'm wrong...

the Quadro FX 580 would be good for modeling and animation within a 3D programme such as 3DSMAX or Sketchup, whereas the GTX260 has more v-ram meaning faster rendering in Octane render. of course the best combination would be a Quadro (main) for modeling and a GTX (sub for ram) for rendering.

knowing all this, if ONE card has to be chosen between the two would it be the GTX260 or the Quadro FX580? we are leaning towards the Quadro FX580 with the belief that the Quadro FX580 render speed would not be too much slower than the GTX260 (we couldn't compare the two cards because the quadro cards don't have GFLOPS rating and we don't fully understand the CUDA Cores)

thanks!

[radiance]

hi,

8600GT is old and quite slow, it won't make for a smooth editing experience...
If you like using octane i'd consider investing in a new GTX400 series card, it makes octane completely different, it's much faster.

Radiance

we managed to get octane working on a windows 7 32-bit platform...! strangely it's an ion netbook hahaha.
we've decided to purchase octane render beta, but the one question that remains is regarding hardware.
the firm is looking to purchase several video cards between 100 and 200 euros.
i've read many forum posts regarding this matter, and my guess is between GTX260 or the Quadro FX580?
please correct me if i'm wrong...

the Quadro FX 580 would be good for modeling and animation within a 3D programme such as 3DSMAX or Sketchup, whereas the GTX260 has more v-ram meaning faster rendering in Octane render. of course the best combination would be a Quadro (main) for modeling and a GTX (sub for ram) for rendering.

knowing all this, if ONE card has to be chosen between the two would it be the GTX260 or the Quadro FX580? we are leaning towards the Quadro FX580 with the belief that the Quadro FX580 render speed would not be too much slower than the GTX260 (we couldn't compare the two cards because the quadro cards don't have GFLOPS rating and we don't fully understand the CUDA Cores)

thanks!

for octane a GTX260 is best, it's got the best performance for the price, and it's miles cheaper in this next to the quadro.
the quadro for display/modeling and a 2nd GTX260 (or GTX480, we recommend to invest in a fermi card nowadays, instead of GTX200's) is a popular and well working setup.
you'd need a motherboard with 2 PCI-E slots though.

Radiance