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smicha wrote:Thanks seeker.

I am leaning towards asus rampage IV black edition. Anyway, I'll post some info soon about the new machine.

Wishes,

smicha

Hi Smicha-
Well, if you want my opinion, I would steer clear of any Asus board. This is purely my experience but the ones I've had have almost all gone bad. I can't even remember how many I've RMA'd in the last 12 months. I've got a dozen of these Octane rigs here and Asus was the initial brand I bought (Rampage 4 I think). Since these started blowing up (just frying for no good reason) I switched to Gigabyte. Not one problem with these boards. This one is the X79-UP4. Super solid board. I've since swapped these into at least 6 other computers with dead Asus boards.

So there you have it. My vote is Gigabyte. Hope this helps.

Alec

smicha wrote:Thanks seeker.

I am leaning towards asus rampage IV black edition. Anyway, I'll post some info soon about the new machine.

Wishes,

smicha

I think that's quite a popular board for Octane users.

pixelrush wrote:Ah! I wish I could afford such things...
I am still waiting for Boris to post a video of his in action. Perhaps you will do that for us so we can all marvel at the speed of 7 Titans. )

Hey Pixel-
Sure. Here's a sample from a project we just finished. It's for a window manufacturer. This was the set for a training video. AO Kernel. All seven Titans fired up and blazing through it. 18,816 cores! Over 13 million polys. Fun stuff. Looking forward to blasting through new projects in 2014!

Thanks
Alec

http://vimeo.com/82836433

Alec,
As you see in my signature I also have a gigabyte. Rock solid for now. I'll think about it.

Smicha,
I have a gigabyte x79 board and it doesn't want to run memory at 2400 with 4 slots filled.(32 gb)
Best I can get out of it in that case is 1866 stable, although to be realistic there is only a few percent difference in actual performance. It might just be the particular memory I have but I looked around on the internet for others experience and it does seem as though because of the architecture it isn't happy to run overclocked profiles. The more memory you stick in it the more conservative the timings need to be it seems. HTH.

Alec,
Thanks for the video. That's a monster rendering machine! .... if I ever win Lotto....

Hi guys,

wanted to let you know, that using Octane Standalone 1.36 with more than 8 GPUS is possible!
Here is a benchmark screenshot, pathtracing and alpha shadows disabled... with 9 GPUS, on Win7 64bit with 64GB RAM, NVIDIA driver 335.23.

3x GTX590 beast
2x GTX580 beast
1x GTX780 Ti SC

37.91 Ms/sec

All watercooled... I even have one dual slot empty for another GTX.

However I didn`t get all 9 GPUs working with C4D and the octane plugin yet... only 8 GPUs are working right now. Hope to get it fixed.

Little outdated Rig in terms of VRAM (cause only 1.5GB usable), but in terms of performance I am very satisfied... and a bit disappointed about the GTX780 Ti overall performance compared to the almost 3 years old DUAL GPU GTX 590 card... not that much of a performance improvement.
GTX780 Ti SC - 6,55 Ms/sec
GTX590 - 6,22 Ms/sec

Hope we will see better performance improvements from NVIDIA with the High End Maxwell cards end of the year...

Greetings,
ChrisVis

last post was pure (NERD) poetry =DDD..

Hello! I'm wondering if It's worth changing my rig (2x GTX 590) for a dual Titan.
I have those 2 GTX 590 watercooled and got to the benchmark scene : 9.65 ms/sec with Octane 1.36.

marchermitte wrote:Hello! I'm wondering if It's worth changing my rig (2x GTX 590) for a dual Titan.
I have those 2 GTX 590 watercooled and got to the benchmark scene : 9.65 ms/sec with Octane 1.36.

If You need more of vram or need to house more textures, then YES, otherwise for speed NO =)
TitanBlack will output the same performance as 780Ti, that's just a bit more than 590 - so it all depends on what You need =)

Ok, that's what I thought. If I really need more memory, then Titan,(or 780) but that's about all there is to It in term of performance. I've been suprised when looking at the benchmark results, I thought 1 titan would be as fast as my 2x gtx 590 rig... my whole rig + the watercooling cost me as much as 1 Titan and renders faster.

thank you for your input.