Re: New computer for octane render
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 5:35 pm
well, maybe You can try to order smth online? =)
690 might be pricey, but it's two 2gb 680 glued together =)
& it scales nicelly..
so, just stop ant think for a second..why to waste +300$ more for some high-end mother-board having multiple pcie slots in order to equip it with not the best possible cards?.. I mean, it would take two conections on Your pricy board to get the same amount of computing power of two 680 2gb when You can buy cheaper motherboard & put dual gpu like 690 instead?.. I mean at least from my perspective it's a waste of space. unlike using it with something like 670, that gives You a great value & maximum available vRam (if we skip k20 teslas, that alone costs 2-3k$ & I haven't seen anyone benchmarked those yet =)
other sugestions might be to buy 3gb fermi based gtx580. but it's getting increasingly hard to get those as they are long gone out of production. there was a guy in the forum selling two used 580s & quadro card =) the last one is not useful for rendering very much, but it might be helpful if You do a lot of heavy geometry work with CAD soft (he was offering three cards =)
about virtu MVP You have to figureout yourself, read in the web or wait till other users to coment on it =)
I haven't used it myself yet, so have no idea what might be the flaws =)
690 might be pricey, but it's two 2gb 680 glued together =)
& it scales nicelly..
so, just stop ant think for a second..why to waste +300$ more for some high-end mother-board having multiple pcie slots in order to equip it with not the best possible cards?.. I mean, it would take two conections on Your pricy board to get the same amount of computing power of two 680 2gb when You can buy cheaper motherboard & put dual gpu like 690 instead?.. I mean at least from my perspective it's a waste of space. unlike using it with something like 670, that gives You a great value & maximum available vRam (if we skip k20 teslas, that alone costs 2-3k$ & I haven't seen anyone benchmarked those yet =)
other sugestions might be to buy 3gb fermi based gtx580. but it's getting increasingly hard to get those as they are long gone out of production. there was a guy in the forum selling two used 580s & quadro card =) the last one is not useful for rendering very much, but it might be helpful if You do a lot of heavy geometry work with CAD soft (he was offering three cards =)
about virtu MVP You have to figureout yourself, read in the web or wait till other users to coment on it =)
I haven't used it myself yet, so have no idea what might be the flaws =)