Asus Z10PE-D8 Motherboard perfect for Octane?

[garytyler]

My thinking was $1250 for two 6 core 3.5 Ghz 15MB Cache Xeons or $1050 for 1x 8 core 5960X. It kind of sounds like a steal.

[garytyler]

I can't even boot into BIOS. I'm pretty certain it's a memory problem. Thanks though. :/

How much does Octane advantage from dual processors?

[smicha]

My fault Xeon does not require ecc but you'd better check compatibility list at asus website. Did you try to boot your computer only on two sticks of ram?

[jayroth]

My build went very smooth. The only hiccup I had was a bad USB key that I was using to load Windows for the install. New key, no problemo.

I am still having trouble getting my master computer to see the octane slave, however, and as a result, I have moved over to the slave machine as my workstation. I may just leave it like this, but I hope to get the network issue resolved. I would like to have that as an option, and if things go well, to add another machine similar to this one for more render power.

My setup uses two E-5 2687W v3 Xeons. I will be using this system for Octane, Marvelous Designer, Turbulence, Arnold and Vray, in addition to Cinema, of course. 64 GB for now. I have installed 3 of 4 GTX 980 Tis, currently air cooled on the GPUs, but water cooled on the the CPUs. Under load, my 3 GPUs hover around 83c, with the middle card hitting that temp, while the outer cards are somewhat lower. I have not yet installed the 4th card due to the USB 2 and 3 header arrangement on the mobo -- they are too close to the slot to allow me to install the 4th card without getting a right angle header adapter (or water cooling the GPUs, which would thin down the card profile as I understand it.)

Once my current job is completed, I will get started on water cooling my system. Given the size of the current CPU Corsair cooler radiators, I may just replace those altogether and add the CPUs into the same water cooling loop(s). But that is for another day.

Good luck on your build. I could not have done mine without reading the great posts here in the forum, along with some extra guidance from Lewis (I basically just copied what he was doing). FYI, my case is a Caselabs Mecury S8, which I picked up from MicroCenter. They had one in stock, and I nabbed it. I needed to order a new mobo tray, as the one included with the kit was for ATX-sized boards. No biggie, less than $20, and they got that part to me in less than 5 days. Much better than waiting the 5-6 weeks as quoted on the Caselabs site. FYI, I was told that the lead times will likely go down to 5 days in another month or two....

[garytyler]

My build went very smooth. The only hiccup I had was a bad USB key that I was using to load Windows for the install. New key, no problemo.

I am still having trouble getting my master computer to see the octane slave, however, and as a result, I have moved over to the slave machine as my workstation. I may just leave it like this, but I hope to get the network issue resolved. I would like to have that as an option, and if things go well, to add another machine similar to this one for more render power.

My setup uses two E-5 2687W v3 Xeons. I will be using this system for Octane, Marvelous Designer, Turbulence, Arnold and Vray, in addition to Cinema, of course. 64 GB for now. I have installed 3 of 4 GTX 980 Tis, currently air cooled on the GPUs, but water cooled on the the CPUs. Under load, my 3 GPUs hover around 83c, with the middle card hitting that temp, while the outer cards are somewhat lower. I have not yet installed the 4th card due to the USB 2 and 3 header arrangement on the mobo -- they are too close to the slot to allow me to install the 4th card without getting a right angle header adapter (or water cooling the GPUs, which would thin down the card profile as I understand it.)

Once my current job is completed, I will get started on water cooling my system. Given the size of the current CPU Corsair cooler radiators, I may just replace those altogether and add the CPUs into the same water cooling loop(s). But that is for another day.

Good luck on your build. I could not have done mine without reading the great posts here in the forum, along with some extra guidance from Lewis (I basically just copied what he was doing). FYI, my case is a Caselabs Mecury S8, which I picked up from MicroCenter. They had one in stock, and I nabbed it. I needed to order a new mobo tray, as the one included with the kit was for ATX-sized boards. No biggie, less than $20, and they got that part to me in less than 5 days. Much better than waiting the 5-6 weeks as quoted on the Caselabs site. FYI, I was told that the lead times will likely go down to 5 days in another month or two....

Thanks for the info. You could just pass up the USB 3 ports in the case for now! I will be installing 5x GTX 980 tis, with 3 spaced across the slots and 2 riser cables coming out in between them. This works beautifully on my X99 E-WS. I'm running 2x Xeon 1650 v3 3.5 Ghz CPUs. And also, for the record, I have read from many sources now that ECC memory is specifically required for this board to work properly and that "Error 61" (VRAM initializing) is the error code that appears on boot when non-ECC memory is installed.

[Lewis]

Thanks for the info. You could just pass up the USB 3 ports in the case for now! I will be installing 5x GTX 980 tis, with 3 spaced across the slots and 2 riser cables coming out in between them. This works beautifully on my X99 E-WS. I'm running 2x Xeon 1650 v3 3.5 Ghz CPUs. And also, for the record, I have read from many sources now that ECC memory is specifically required for this board to work properly and that "Error 61" (VRAM initializing) is the error code that appears on boot when non-ECC memory is installed.

You are running DUAL Xeons on single socket MB ??? How ? I probably misunderstood somethign but I've read it 3 times and i can't see what did i read wrong .

Also Z10PE-D8 officially supports non-ECC RAM so there can only be some incompatibility with specs or faulty RAM, no need for ECC only RAM.

[Dizern]

For xeon you must have ecc

I've been running non-ECC on a Xeon 1650 v3 processor in an Asus X99 E WS for a long time just fine.

hi from 2017
How many GPUs you've put there?
I;m trying to put 7 1070....but it fail to boot with more than 5cards. Does anyode faced that problem?