Refractive Software® is discontinuing Cubix Xpander support

[Carl S.]

Price one of these.
http://www.acma.com/acma/CS_PersonalSup ... rkstations

I added almost the same thing for $3,800 to a existing machine. Plus I have a display card.
I have 1,920 in the 480's and another 240 in the 285 totaling 2,160 cores when rendering with Iray. With Octane I only use the 480's because adding the 285 slows it down.

Ah Carl, i see what you mean..

Well, if i answer you, people will say that i make an advertising. Never mind. You say you have the money for buying it, and also because you need it now. Then, you could have chose Arion, and there, with multi CPU, multi GPU and LAN support, you could have bought several computers with graphic cards, and be far more faster with not only multi GPU but also multi CPU... but Arion is not affordable for most of octane's customers.

I don't really like Arion but everything you just said is in Iray.
Buying multiple pc's is more expensive and not as fast as the gpu rendering. The massive speed up in Iray and other unbiased renders that also use the CPU comes in when you add the GPU's which are way cheaper. You can throw CPU's at it all day but when you add the GPU's it is night and day in the speed difference. These boxes eliminate the need for a render farm of pc's for small companies.

[Chris_TC]

I have rendered about 10,000 HD unbiased frames since you have been on here ranting about Cubix.
How would you go about rendering those?

Your sig says that you have 2 GTX 480 cards in your Cubix Xpander. There are plenty of motherboards that offer quad SLI. And they're nowhere close to $1,000.

[bob30]

I added almost the same thing for $3,800 to a existing machine. Plus I have a display card.

For a $3,800 budget, one could buy interesting computers with such motherboards as this one:
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=n0goz6KAhlPOk1kF

If anyone knows good company for building one's computer online, i'm personally interested in the info.

[Carl S.]

I have rendered about 10,000 HD unbiased frames since you have been on here ranting about Cubix.
How would you go about rendering those?

Your sig says that you have 2 GTX 480 cards in your Cubix Xpander. There are plenty of motherboards that offer quad SLI. And they're nowhere close to $1,000.

I actually have two xpander boxes with 4 gtx 480's that were first installed in two machines but now are installed in one machine which also has a gtx 285 totaling 5 video cards. I just haven't updated the sig.

This isn't a bargain basement computer build type situation. My boss wants good hardware from a respected company. I could not imagine if I told him we were going to buy the parts and build these things with no warranty and me being the tech support.
He would simply not invest in that.

[Carl S.]

I added almost the same thing for $3,800 to a existing machine. Plus I have a display card.

For a $3,800 budget, one could buy interesting computers with such motherboards as this one:
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=n0goz6KAhlPOk1kF

If anyone knows good company for building one's computer online, i'm personally interested in the info.

Interesting I look forward to the future. It looks very bright. But right now we don't build computers we render animations, and we are doing such right now and have been since July.

[bob30]

With the latest Asus motherboard, you could place your 4 GTX 480 in one single machine, but in PCIe 2.0 (double speed and bandwidth comparatively to PCIe 1.0). It has 7 PCI-E Gen2 x16 and supports also 4 dual-GPU cards.

And you won't believe it: a dual GPU Nvidia GTX480 is on the go
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... phics-card

So you could multiply by 4 your actual set-up in one computer only.

[Carl S.]

That will be a beast at GPU rendering.

[Chris_TC]

This isn't a bargain basement computer build type situation. My boss wants good hardware from a respected company. I could not imagine if I told him we were going to buy the parts and build these things with no warranty and me being the tech support.
He would simply not invest in that.

I don't build my machines either (and they're certainly not sitting in a basement). I just pick the parts, and the store puts them together, with full warranty of course.

[bob30]

I don't build my machines either (and they're certainly not sitting in a basement). I just pick the parts, and the store puts them together, with full warranty of course.

Hello Chris, do you speak about a future computer setup that you expect to build or do you have already built a machine specially designed for GPU rendering ?

I think it would be useful to have a hardware section into the fora where one could discuss about the possible hardware configurations for GPU rendering. It would certainly help in one's choices.

Regards,
bob30

[matej]

I think it would be useful to have a hardware section into the fora where one could discuss about the possible hardware configurations for GPU rendering. It would certainly help in one's choices.

Just say to the store clerk: "build me something that will run Crysis 2 with 200fps"