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Hi,

I have at the moment one GTX 280, the price of another 280 isn't much lower than the price of a 480
so 2x280 or 1x480 ?

Also when using multiple nvidia cards do they need to be absolutely identical ?

last question, and i hope not a stupid one i have a second machine, could Octane use the other card over a network? sort of like GPU-X only cheaper (seriously i had to check it wasn't april when i saw the prices!)

thanks

Dave.

Hi,

One GTX480 will be better as it renders faster on low-resolution / directlighting modes.
I'd take the fermi instead of 2x GTX200.

Currently there is no network transparency in octane.

Radiance

At one moment, Gainward produced GTX280 with 2GB of VRAM, it seems that it is very difficult to find them now. It was interesting for big scenes and I was thinking of purchasing two of them before we got informations about GTX 480 release, but if I remember well the images seen, Gainward GTX 280 had big heat pipes on a side, and it is a thing to take in account for Cubix box owners, I think ?

Probably not really a problem for most desktop computers with big towers but in Cubix Xpander there is very few room in the box on top of the graphic cards, and I may be wrong, but I am almost sure that Gainward cards don't fit in the Cubix box because of their vertical dimension.

Just a precision for people who would make this choice before purchasing the Cubix or would have not seen photos of the Gainward GTX 280.

EDIT : Hmm, I got a doubt, and so I have given a look at the site of a hardware seller, and they don't sell GTX 280 any more, so I have only seen Gainward GTX 285 1GB with big pipes. I can't verify if GTX 280 had big pipes too. Anyway, be careful if you want to purchase one.