nVidia 1080 ti

[mitviz]

Sorry I meant if you mix 1080's and 1080ti's, are you limited to the 1080's ram? And not utilizing all of the 1080ti's? I do a lot a arch renderings that take a LOT of ram and I want to use GPU in production but I'm not sure how much ram I need.

correct, your limited to the smaller cards vram but in each renderer there is the option to pick which card to render at which time

[biochemical_animations]

no difference at all except that cards run much cooler

Just a question on install to double check myself...so power goes to the 16x board as well as the graphics card as it normally would, and the 1x board plugs into the 16x slot on the MB, replacing the graphics card...do I have this right?

Also, I'm tying to brainstorm ways to hang the graphics cards externally...I've seen some youtube vids of crude wood frames...is that what you went with?

Right now one card in my boxes are running 84 degrees C top, as summer approaches and ambient temps increase, it would be nice not to have to air condition the room, and allow to fans to adequately cool the cards if mounted externally. I think I'll have to implement ths solution.

So far the reviews on these are adapters are much better than the ribbons.

[mitviz]

Just a question on install to double check myself...so power goes to the 16x board as well as the graphics card as it normally would, and the 1x board plugs into the 16x slot on the MB, replacing the graphics card...do I have this right?

Also, I'm tying to brainstorm ways to hang the graphics cards externally...I've seen some youtube vids of crude wood frames...is that what you went with?

Right now one card in my boxes are running 84 degrees C top, as summer approaches and ambient temps increase, it would be nice not to have to air condition the room, and allow to fans to adequately cool the cards if mounted externally. I think I'll have to implement ths solution.

So far the reviews on these are adapters are much better than the ribbons.

yes, the gpu plugs into the pcie slot of the psu and the extender as well has a port for pluging into one power cable from the psu as well, forgot the type, then the extender plugs into the slot of the gpu on the mother board, i have a simple wood frame as my setup as well, didnt bother doing anything fany for now but here is something like what i did

[biochemical_animations]

yes, the gpu plugs into the pcie slot of the psu and the extender as well has a port for pluging into one power cable from the psu as well, forgot the type, then the extender plugs into the slot of the gpu on the mother board, i have a simple wood frame as my setup as well, didnt bother doing anything fany for now but here is something like what i did[ATTACH=CONFIG]36750[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]36751[/ATTACH]

Nice...thank you.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

yes, the gpu plugs into the pcie slot of the psu and the extender as well has a port for pluging into one power cable from the psu as well, forgot the type, then the extender plugs into the slot of the gpu on the mother board, i have a simple wood frame as my setup as well, didnt bother doing anything fany for now but here is something like what i did[ATTACH=CONFIG]36750[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]36751[/ATTACH]

I wonder how well this can work when the new NVLink comes in to play... humh

[mitviz]

[QUOTE=Dariusz Makowski (Dadal);729644]I wonder how well this can work when the new NVLink comes in to play... humh[/QUOTED Dont here much talk about NVlink really, will it ever be available to us normal people over the next few years, knowing NVidia, probably not

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

[QUOTE=mitviz;729692]

I wonder how well this can work when the new NVLink comes in to play... humh[/QUOTED Dont here much talk about NVlink really, will it ever be available to us normal people over the next few years, knowing NVidia, probably not

Sure it will.... just wait for lease servers to expire and ull be able to buy them secon handed for penies.

[kosso_olli]

Who is the manufacturer of the aluminium frame construction? Can I buy these as shown?

[mitviz]

Who is the manufacturer of the aluminium frame construction? Can I buy these as shown?

not sure, these parts you can usually easily buy at an local hardware, the plastic corner caps and hollow steel, atleast here anyway and they cut it for you, all you have to do is fit it

[biochemical_animations]

Who is the manufacturer of the aluminium frame construction? Can I buy these as shown?

Wow, your gettin fancy...I'm gonna hang mine on a couple 2x3's, sure won't look nice, but nobody's gonna see it.

[biochemical_animations]

you should be able to use all 6, am at 4 now, waiting on the 1080 ti to make it 5

Is this for your workstation?

I'm curious as to how the 1x adapters effects things like working in active shade.

Im still learning all this, but the way I understand it, that if you run a 40 lane CPU, you can have four gpus plugged into the MB, at 8x each, that's 32 lanes for the gpus.

What if you went with a regular 28 lane gpu, and plugged one gpu into the MB running at 16x for running the monitors ( I'm assuming graphic output cards need the 16 lanes on the MB), then added cards using the risers plugged into as many pcie slots as your MB supports? I'm guessing you'd still want a MB with as many 3.0 pcie slots as possible, so the 1x adapter gets the fastest transfer rate as possible. But would your workstation benefit the same with the 28 lane cpu setup with risers, as it would with a 40 lane cpu non-riser setup?

So lets say, one gpu at 16x plugged in the MB, then 4 more at 1x, that's only 20 lanes...am I getting this right?

[biochemical_animations]

hmmm. so if i bought 6 1070's and some power I could use all 6 cards? do you know if theres a limit?

I'm wondering if power could be split up between psu's? The two expensive pieces of the puzzle are a large psu and a ups large enough to handle 4-6 cards. I guess you'd need a thing plugged into the psu ( I think it's called a tester) that allows the second psu to be powered first before turning on the psu for the MB. Then you could run each psu on a separate smaller ups.

[glorybound]

For us laymen... The 1080 Ti is FINALLY here and, while expensive, it's actually kind of amazing..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L34Z...ampaign=buffer

[Morbid Angel]

Just ordered one of them for testing. If it goes well, and vray gpu behaves I'm planning to switch entire farm to all gtx 1080ti Will see how this goes

[glorybound]

That NVlink sounds like something to wait for. I wonder if it'll be backwards compatible, or it'll need a new kind of card.