So my 13 year old Mac Pro G5 is the exception ;) Man that machine paid for itself so many times over. Truely sad I cant get excited about the New Mac Pros though ;(
________________________________ From: Raffaele Fragapane [[email protected]] Sent: 12 December 2014 06:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Best graphic card for Softimage? It sounds like you were well past the 15000 hours mark on those components. Practically no non-enterprise gear is guaranteed to work continuously for that long. Most is considered to have a reliable life of 10k, after which you roll the dice. A couple mobos for what sounds like 25k or more hours of active duty is nothing to sneeze at. You could buy/set up better ventilation in the casing, but it's unlikely that just heat, especially if it was never going past 50 ambient, was shortening component life much. And yes, everybody has their stories of hardware that lasted fifteen years, and cars that were still good after 250000 miles, but that's not the average mileage you should expect from consumer level hardware, or even non-server oriented hardware in general. On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 3:08 PM, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Average temp ran around high 50's Celsius and rarely touched 70 C on a major render. It was on nearly continuously for 3 years until mobo died in Feb then Nov (warranty covered both). Any links for better cooling appreciated. Thanks, Henry On 2014-12-11 17:32, James De Colling wrote: thats bizarre, I had a quadro4000 in my old machine for 2 years without a problem. it was on 24/7 now I have a 770TI and again, its on 24/7 maybe look at some better cooling solutions? cheers james, On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:28 AM, hk-vndr <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Apologies to my thumbs. I meant how long do you keep your computer on with a card that generates such heat? In my case, I've had to replace my mobo twice this year from my Nvidia quadro 4000. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Mirko Jankovic Date:12/11/2014 2:32 PM (GMT-05:00) To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Best graphic card for Softimage? "How long can you can your computer on with this card in it?" Sry but clarification please? On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:28 PM, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: How long can you can your computer on with this card in it? On 2014-12-11 05:36, Mario Reitbauer wrote: Got the msi gtx 970 gaming 4g. Quite happy with it. 2014-12-11 10:03 GMT+01:00 Mirko Jankovic <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: right now 970 is best bang for backs. they do not heat too much, power consumption is prety low and they do really good job. and on top of that Redshift as perfect companion ;) viewport performance is not that big issue at all between two cards but being able to utilise GPU rendering with CUDA is way more higher on the list then couple more FPS in viewport On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Christoph Muetze <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I'd stay clear of the ATI/AMD consumer cards if I were you. From our experience Soft becomes generally less stable (crashing a lot more), and the raycast selection is going haywire sometimes. Chris On 11/12/14 04:44, phil harbath wrote: > I went Redshift and have been very pleased. I can get by using a lot less > computers than before on most projects, volume smoke is pretty much all I > use MR for anymore. I have several computers with a combination of 780TI, > 770, and 970, while I think the 780Ti give the best performance, it really > makes more sense to buy the 970 as they are priced better or 980 if you have > more cash. The Redshift say go with the cards with the most ram (that would > be Titan 6tb, if you got even more cash), depends on your needs of course. > > From: David Rivera > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 8:51 PM > To: Softimage Mailing List > Subject: Best graphic card for Softimage? > > I know this subject has been posted a lot over the years, but it happens that > I read a benchmark performance between autodesk products on certain webpage. > They tested Radeons vs Nvidias and turns out that Mudbox and Softimage ran > better on AMD (Radeons) - this is mental ray render. > > > So I was wondering whether to go full on mental ray (CPU) or take my savings > and put it on a GPU renderer? Either case, now a days, which is the middle > ranked graphic card for softimage? 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