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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

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

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

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

Radiance

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?!?

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