New member & new render rig build

[haknslash]

New to this forum and looking to try Octane Render. I've been using Bunkspeed Shot Pro and iray for rendering but after trying out the Octane Render demo on my home rig using a single GTX 780 I was pretty impressed. The 1.5 release looks very promising so i'm hoping that comes out soon!

Anyways happy to be here and as soon as I get this machine built I'm going to buy the Octane Render standalone + 3DS Max and Blender plugin's. I'm guessing after I activate the product I'll have access to post in the licensed forums?

My current workstation is a Boxx 4920 Xtreme using a Quadro 4000 and Tesla C2075. Obviously that setup isn't fast for GPU rendering so a secondary dedicated render rig was in order to free up CAD design on my Boxx rig. I would of loved to find some 580's as they still seem to be the king of the crop for fast GPU rendering but I went with the Ti's to keep IT happy as they were opposed to buying used lol.

Specs:
Corsair Obsidian Series 900D super tower case
ASUS Maximus VI Extreme motherboard
Intel Core i7 4770k processor
3x EVGA Superclocked ACX-cooled GTX 780 Ti graphics cards
Corsair AX1200i power supply
G-Skill Trident X Series 2400 32GB (4x8GB) RAM
1x Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD
1x Western Digital Black Series 1TB HDD
4x Corsair Air Series
12x Corsair SP120 120mm high performance static pressure fans
Corsair Hydro H100i liquid cpu cooler
NZXT Sentry-2 5.25" touchscreen fan controller
ASUS Black DVD/CD optical drive
Windows 7 Professional 64bit

[womble]

I just drooled a little

[r-username]

3x EVGA Superclocked ACX-cooled GTX 780 Ti graphics cards
Corsair AX1200i

GTX 780 Ti
System Wattage with GPU in FULL Stress = 372W
x3 = 1,116 W

Keep an eye out for power issues, if you can, you may want to think about the AX1500 psu

[prehabitat]

System wattage x 3?

shouldn't it be card wattage x3 plus system overhead x1 ?

Try this to double check: http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp
I got 1004 Max consumption (card + system) with the i7 overclocked to 4.5ghz @ 1.4v.

[glimpse]

now that's going to be a nice rig =) Welcome to forums!

Yeah, when You get Your licence You'll be able to access all forum =)

[polytek]

droolllinggg

[voon]

Great Rig ... I'm one 780Ti behind that As long as you'er within the VRAM, you'll be so pleased with this ... these cards are really fast.

As for the Power: 1200 on a good PSU is enough. Sure, it's not FAR above it and it's not in the efficiency Sweetspot while under load, but it should work.

Then again, I had a Fractal Design PSU 800W for my two 780 Tis .... it would work in Blender, but crash when running an SLI game .. the PSU would power off. It seems render load is smaller, than game load. Now I have a replacement PSU, a Seasonic 860W, but the second GPU is in repair (one of the fans was crappy) ... I'll see how this turns out, but in theory, it should be good.

[haknslash]

Started on the build. This case is massive and that's really an understatement heh. Planning to start some Octane renders next week! Sorry for cell phone quality pics forgot to bring my SLR.







I am glad I went with a motherboard that had wide, equally spaced slots...