I want to add, it is also hard to find GPUs that blows the air out the
back of the card.
If you have 3 to 4 cards, it is important so the heat doesn't stay
inside the case
The EVGA reference model are one of them, but they are on back order.
There generally is a shortage on some models of the 970.
I bought a couple of Zotac 970, initial testing is very promising.
The Redshift forum is also very helpful.
Leoung
On 12/12/2014 4:04 AM, Mirko Jankovic wrote:
well I do have 4 titans stacked in one cmp and 4x 970 on another, they
do heat up the room :) but cards itself are fine. 970s rarely go over
60, titans can hit 5-10 degrees more.
but good cooler room and cases and all ok
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Dan Yargici <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The Quadro 4000s are TERRIBLE when it comes to cooling. I seem to
remember that they were idling at ~90 degrees C...
DAN
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Raffaele Fragapane
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
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? (My budget is around 1k).
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> David Rivera
> 3D Compositor/Animator
> LinkedIN
> Behance
> VFX Reel
>
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