Nibbler,
Its sounds like you have enough experience to answer my question about an old mac tower from 2012. The specs on this machine are x 3.06 GHz 6-core Xeon
64GB 1333 DDR3
NVIDIA Quadro K5000
I would like to include a 980ti for rendering with octane in C4D in this machine but am trying to figure out how it would be compatible. Could I just put a 980ti in the second slot of this machine and use the K5000 for the monitors and the 980ti for rendering or do you think there would be a conflict with the drivers between these two cards?
Mac Pro compatibility.
We're running an AMD card for the Monitors and a 980 Ti for Octane, works great. Just watch the power distribution, we had to rearrange the splitters to not have it hard crash while rendering.Ibycus wrote:Nibbler,
Its sounds like you have enough experience to answer my question about an old mac tower from 2012. The specs on this machine are x 3.06 GHz 6-core Xeon
64GB 1333 DDR3
NVIDIA Quadro K5000
I would like to include a 980ti for rendering with octane in C4D in this machine but am trying to figure out how it would be compatible. Could I just put a 980ti in the second slot of this machine and use the K5000 for the monitors and the 980ti for rendering or do you think there would be a conflict with the drivers between these two cards?
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Nate Mac - Chicago, IL
Cinema 4D R26.107 | Octane 2021.1.6
Main: AMD ThreadRipper | Win10 | 32-core | 128GB | RTX A5000 & GTX 2070 SUPER
Slaves: 4x GTX 980 Ti | GTX 1080 | GTX 1070 | GTX 1070Ti
Nate Mac - Chicago, IL
Cinema 4D R26.107 | Octane 2021.1.6
Main: AMD ThreadRipper | Win10 | 32-core | 128GB | RTX A5000 & GTX 2070 SUPER
Slaves: 4x GTX 980 Ti | GTX 1080 | GTX 1070 | GTX 1070Ti
natemac00 wrote:We're running an AMD card for the Monitors and a 980 Ti for Octane, works great. Just watch the power distribution, we had to rearrange the splitters to not have it hard crash while rendering.Ibycus wrote:Nibbler,
Its sounds like you have enough experience to answer my question about an old mac tower from 2012. The specs on this machine are x 3.06 GHz 6-core Xeon
64GB 1333 DDR3
NVIDIA Quadro K5000
I would like to include a 980ti for rendering with octane in C4D in this machine but am trying to figure out how it would be compatible. Could I just put a 980ti in the second slot of this machine and use the K5000 for the monitors and the 980ti for rendering or do you think there would be a conflict with the drivers between these two cards?
Thanks! sounds like I can make it work then after playing with it for a bit.
Be very careful with the 980ti. Mine blew a power supply in my 2012 Mac Pro. I ended up getting a 450watt supplementary power supply (one expressly for powerful graphics cards) and mounting it in my optical drive bays and running cables through the Mac Pro to the 980ti. The gaps are so small I had to cut the cables and solder them back together to get them to go where they needed to go. It was quite the pain in the rear. The power runs in the Mac Pro are just not adequate for the 980ti.Ibycus wrote:Nibbler,
Its sounds like you have enough experience to answer my question about an old mac tower from 2012. The specs on this machine are x 3.06 GHz 6-core Xeon
64GB 1333 DDR3
NVIDIA Quadro K5000
I would like to include a 980ti for rendering with octane in C4D in this machine but am trying to figure out how it would be compatible. Could I just put a 980ti in the second slot of this machine and use the K5000 for the monitors and the 980ti for rendering or do you think there would be a conflict with the drivers between these two cards?
The unit I got is the ePOWER EP-450CD. Which I can't find online at the moment.
Your unit might not have the same issue mine has as mine is a dual six-core unit and that second CPU eats a lot of power.