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Hi!
I'm currently using the Octane Demo on my PC with the following configuration:
Intel Core2Duo E8400 (2x3,0GHz)
2048 MB Ram
NVIDIA Geforce 8600 GT 256 MB Ram

Now I'm thinking about getting a new graphics card when I buy the Octane beta to have a better rendering speed. I read that GFX 470 and GFX 480 perform very well with Octane.
Today I asked a friend who deals with PC hardware and he said that my configuration with my processor and RAM was much too weak to use one of these big graphic cards. He told me there were some huge limitations caused by the frontside Bus of my processor so that these graphic cards wouldn't perform well on my system. So he told me to get a better PC with an i7 processor and more RAM Memory before considering to buy a huge graphics card. So to be honest, he really confused me.
Does somebody of you have experience with these components? I'm really interested if there's really no sense in buying a strong graphics card instead of updating my whole pc system.
Thanks for your help and advice!

Hi,

Octane does not require much speed between the GPU (only for loading the data into it initially), so it should work fine on your system...
It's not sure if other apps like games will run fast...

Radiance

Basicaly you need to ensure your power supply is up to spec.Probably a good quality 600 watt supply and make sure the motherboard has a PCIE 2.0 slot for the graphics card at x8 speed minimum.That should be about right to run a GTX570 which is roughly the modern equivelent of a 480.I would also suggest going for a 2GB card in case of high poly/ high res renders.

Hope that helps

Thanks for the answers.
I'm saving my money to buy a good 570 2GB card I think.
I'm going to order my octane license this weekend, I'm really looking forward to it:)