pre sales question

[Squiggles]

hi

I'm interested in getting an i3 processor with a gtx470 on a h55 motherboard. would i be able to select the gtx470 as the gpu to render with, or will this not be possible with octane render? i ask because the intel i3 processor has a build in gpu and am worried that the octane render would only be able to render using the i3's builid in gpu, as opposed to the gtx470!

cheers

[[gk]]

Im pritty sure that if the laptop has a 470 in it, it should be able to be detected in octane.

[havensole]

Octane will automatically detect and use 470 as it will only use CUDA enabled GPU's, which the intel is not.

[radiance]

it will work but you might have to connect your monitor to the 470 instead of the intel onboard graphics.

Radiance

[Squiggles]

but why would i need to connect the gtx to a mointor? Surely isn't it just like having 2 GPUs sitting in your compuer?-one for the display & one for rendering?!?

[radiance]

because the opengl / cuda communication does'nt always work when you're displaying on a non-nvidia GPU.
it's not easy to tell, for some people it works, for others it does'nt.

Radiance