Recent content by GeoffCoope

I think this new GPU pricing will make users decide that the rest of the system needs an upgrade first. As a result Ray Tracing is not going to get the consumer demand NVidia want. Yes it may be great, wonderful and the future but its going to be a slow take up so no need to rush is there...

Marketing has a way of sounding better than it is, take Magic Leap for instance. Yes they are selling out in many places, maybe the initial batch was very low to make it appear this way. Another batch will come. Where are the independent game benchmarks why was this not shown. The Siggraph...

It has no 10GBase-T port? so not really a board that could be used in a workstation with 4 x GPU's.

Of fthe top of my head I would also like to see: SLI vs CrossFire vs Multi-GPU (non SLi) support for rendering or real-time path tracing. OS support for drives, e.g. Linux, Mac, PC Long term hardware compatibility, yes this strays into CPU territory too but if somebody goes all out Intel vs...

Also need a motherboard that can take this 32core cpu and 3 or 4 x GTX 1080Ti's. Hybrid rendering with CPU+GPU is part of my render pipeline.

So looking forwards to this as a render slave. Not bothered about overclocking but certainly want to know if it can run flat out at stock speeds 24/7

Not directly relevant to your question but If you ever want to do 3D CGI rendering on the GPU then NVidia is the way to go at the moment. Most of the realtime 3D rendering engines that support GPU rendering have better support for CUDA on NVidia rather than OpenCL which AMD target. It could...

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This is not feasible, a lot of these technologies are still being worked on and when one appears it is superseded by another very quickly. It is far too early for standards to emerge.

Thank you. What did you get for the Mac Pro? Thinking of selling my D700 6 core. One consideration you might look at is mains power to the room you put these in, two or 3 is generally not a problem but 4 or 5 of them running could stress your electric circuit if it is poor quality. For...

No problem. I have been a technical 3D artist for years and love it when we can have our own render farms (or GPU central heating!). Good luck and please post back in the future if you get this up and running, I would be interested to hear your experience.

The dual Xeon in your choice gives two x16 pci slots so you would think the 825w PSU has the cables and efficiency to manage that? (see link below) This is server grade so I would assume a decent PSU. With rendering it needs to cope with 24/7 load too so whatever graphics cards you get, make...

Put your spec through a PSU calculator like: http://www.coolermaster.com/power-supply-calculator/