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Thanks guys. We're very excited about the product.

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':

Glimpse wrote: * what is the mobo driving this,
* what is the quality of risers/ribon cables,
* at what speeds those links operate,

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: 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.

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: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.

Form follows function.

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..

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.

Hope that helps. In the meanwhile, please be a little patient as we put the product through its paces.

Best,
Seeker

Seeker
Good luck with all the details. It looks great!

If this is an ignorant question please ignore it...

It looks like a housing for a GPU extension box. ... but the diagram showing all the cards cables going back into the main Computer make me think it is not.

Any reason not to make it an extension box and have one PCI or thunderbolt cable going into your MOB rather than all the cables?

Peter

p3taoctane wrote:Seeker
Good luck with all the details. It looks great!

If this is an ignorant question please ignore it...

It looks like a housing for a GPU extension box. ... but the diagram showing all the cards cables going back into the main Computer make me think it is not.

Any reason not to make it an extension box and have one PCI or thunderbolt cable going into your MOB rather than all the cables?

Peter

Hi p3taoctane,
We're different from extension boxes like Cubix and Netstor, in that we do not offer a backplane in the same way that they do - if there were heptagonal backplanes we might consider them, but there aren't. We may yet develop our own flexible backplane but the current version of the product uses riser cables of various flavours, including some with a small pc board that could be individually mounted on the card supports. We would like to make the unit as flexible as possible since I/O cable technology is evolving very fast right now.

Hope that helps.

Seeker

Thanks for the reply... I think it is a great idea
Keep us informed and best of luck

Any kickstarter plans??

p3taoctane wrote:Any kickstarter plans??

We're looking at a few models. Crowdfinding is a possibility.
Seeker

ristoraven wrote:Big fan in front.

I´d say, pretty awesome innovation.

Thanks man!

ristoraven wrote:Patented already? At least pending?

Yes, pending.

Another image added to the first post in this thread and a few additional ones to the site - www.pixelredemption.com

Seeker

Why not vertical?.. That just seems like that would make more sense. Heat rises and perhaps less stress on cards and slots...

You gonna have an black anodized aluminum version? Acrylic kinda looks cheap - and some don't need/want to see GPUs.

Pretty cool Seeker.

What a beautiful piece of enclosure!
couldn't agree more as Tutor stated....that would be great to have push-pull fan to get the hot air flowing out the case.
can't wait for the outcome, Seekerfinder!

A horizontal trashcan ...sick sick

Would be cool if it would use thunderbolt 2 somehow.