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Anyone have experience using this motherboard for dual xeon multi-GPU builds? Anything I should be aware of? I'm wondering if it runs 5 GPUs OK. Thanks!

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=asus+Z10PE-D8

That's the motherboard I have. In fact, I just got everything up and running today: 3 Octane GTX 980 Tis, with one more ready to install. I cannot install the 4th one until I get right angle header adapters for the USB ports on the mobo, as they interfere with one of the slots if cables are plugged in. Overall, very easy to put together and configure. I had lots of help from Lewis in the form of some great suggestions. I am currently running air cooled on the cards, with two Corsair CPU coolers on the E5-2687W v3 Xeons. Quiet, unless the cards are under load (I chose "Aggressive" for the fan cooling profiles of the cards.)

I wish I could report more, but after my install and loading Octane, I have yet to get the octane slaves to be available to my master machine. I have read you have had some issues in this regard as well? I cannot seem to find anything wrong, and I have been through the setup numerous times now.

I have Z9PE-D8 WS which is a predecessor of the motherboard you have. It is running smooth for maybe 2 years now. I have 3 TITANs in it and a PCI interface card to connect to 4 more TITANs in a Netstor expansion box. Very stable system, I don't have anything to comlain about. It even survived two trips to the coast and back in a trunk of a car without any special protection.

Wonderfull motherboard!

though I'd say You would have hard time fitting 5GPUs on it as PCIe slots are one slot apart, unless..

A: You choose single slot cards (ussually watercooled GTX cards) or..Single slot PRO cards (that are too expensive for GPU rendering)
B: Duall GPU models like TitanZ (an again watercoole them to shring from tripple slot to dual slot.)

In case of A You might end up with up 7GPU configuration under water giving You 1000+ points in OctaneBench (that equates 10 980s). In B case - taking up to 4x TitanZ would give You around 880 points.

There is option C - use risers & some sort of mining case in order to hook up to 7 dual slot cards =)

the way You choose is up to You, but I have one question: do You need dual CPUs? if not something like X99E WS with single CPU (& the same amount of PCIe slots) would be better deal in Your case for multi GPU monster.

feel free to sahre any other questions =) & we'll try to help You out.

That MBo is pretty much BEST you can get for CPU and GPU render system today in one case, so Go for it if you need CPU power also, otherwise you can go with cheaper single socket system as glimpse recommended .

Thanks for the replies!!

Glimpse, my need for the 12 cores is for 5K R3D playback in DaVinci Resolve.

I have the X99 E-WS and love it and was considering a switch. I ended up getting it in the mail today actually and can't boot it with the Corsair Vengeance DDR4 I have. I think I need ECC Ram. Anyone running non-ECC ram in theirs?

For xeon you must have ecc

smicha wrote:For xeon you must have ecc

I've been running non-ECC on a Xeon 1650 v3 processor in an Asus X99 E WS for a long time just fine.

smicha wrote:For xeon you must have ecc

Not atall. I have 64gb nonecc for last two years without problems. These high end workstation MBs accept ECC and nonECC RAM.

garytyler wrote:Thanks for the replies!!

Glimpse, my need for the 12 cores is for 5K R3D playback in DaVinci Resolve.

I have the X99 E-WS and love it and was considering a switch. I ended up getting it in the mail today actually and can't boot it with the Corsair Vengeance DDR4 I have. I think I need ECC Ram. Anyone running non-ECC ram in theirs?

ou, I see =) now I understand why You spend so much on pair of Xeons =)

sorry, no experience with memory - anyway, hope You'll solve that soon!

..maybe it has something do to with XMP profiles..try to disable those..
if motherboard picked up those automatically as xeons might nnot like them..