I don’t overclock my graphic cards, but with water block I have divided by 2 temperature of my 1080.
I think it’s the same for 1080Ti.
Are there differences in load times using the risers vs plugged straight in th MB?
I’m not totally up to knowledge on transfer speeds on the MB vs riser.
no difference at all except that cards run much cooler
hmmm. so if i bought 6 1070’s and some power I could use all 6 cards? do you know if theres a limit?
you should be able to use all 6, am at 4 now, waiting on the 1080 ti to make it 5
nice. does that mean you’d be limited in ram usage to the older cards? Do you know if processor frequency affects GPU rendering? Or is it just more cuda cores and ram the better?
not sure what you mean by limited on older cards, older cards some of them cannot be used some just have too little vram for use anyway, faster processor means the scene is loaded faster so the gpu can take over but once it starts rendering the cpu doesnt matter much anymore the gpu takes over, more cuda cores and more vram cards are better, the 1080 ti is now the best buy. usually when am rendering with gpu i can work on other projects at the same time because they are more cpu driven and less gpu like for example i have a project going, i can let it render and then start another one at the same time
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.
I would suggest waiting for NVLink to be more available. Then u can share GPU ram…
Yeh i read that article dabarti wrote - amazing. maybe the next gen gtx’s will support nvlink. fingers crossed
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
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
Nice…thank you.
I wonder how well this can work when the new NVLink comes in to play… humh
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
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. 