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Im looking to building a new HP rendering power horse Workstation. Im sortof interested in the new Revit option for
GPU rendering and also using the Video card for 3Ds max design 2013. So has any tested the different versions of
Quadro cards for Revit 2013 in GPU rendering? Only looking at 2000, 4000 and 6000 Quadro cards. We have a few
workstations here that has 2000 and 4000 cards but I havent used 6000 quadro cards and I just need to know if its going
to be over kill for GPU rendering in Revit.
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maybe I am behind the curve, but GPU rendering in revit!? WHAT?!?! can you please point me to this "new Revit option for GPU rendering" because I feel like a lot of people could reallllllllly use this. Especially my SLI rig at home ;-)
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SLI has no affect on GPU Rendering. Revit does not GPU Render either. 3ds Max iRay, Vray RT and Octane Render all do. If you have large complex scenes you will need a large memory GPU like the 6000 or a Tesla as you have to load the entire scene onto the card and are limited to the capacity of the smallest memory used card used.
i have Geforce GTX 660 ti GPUs at home and they scream on Octane Render
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that is kind of what I thought he was saying... I have never used any rendering software that utalized the GPU. So it is all about the memory? How much memory is on your 660? I am guessing that my 768mb gtx 460's would not stand up then.
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scene size is related to memory. if you do fairly small scenes within max a couple 460s would do decent. that gives you 660+ stream processors rendering at once. Another important thing with geforce cards and rendering is keeping them cool, they get pretty hot so lots of cooling is vital. if you invest in something larger like my 660 youll boost your cores. mine is currently almost 3000 processors if i remember correctly.
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yea my opps. I thought it was the GPU rendering but I did a test the other day and when I did that rendering my CPU went to the max and the video card really didnt do anything but again my intel 2700k crashed on the revit demo file.
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so if I were to ever render with GPU rendering software, should I have my cards in SLI or not? And yea, even with the slight overclock they are mad cool. I have a 230mm 150cfm fan intake right on them for gaming :-D
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SLI does not help gpu render. you can just disable the SLI in the Nvidia control panel i believe. my current machine has a quadro 600 for my touchscreen and max viewports and i use the 660 TIs when rendering. my box gets insanely hot though when rendering, i dont expect my geforce cards to last long
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so disabling SLI would just make each card do a different portion of the work and be more efficent than SLI?
if you learn to overclock and your cards are at stock speeds you can most likly undervolt them and tell the fan speeds to be faster for cooler temps. What case do you have?
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if i remember correctly with iray and vray rt if you SLI it will only read one card, search jeff patton iray, i think he had a blog about it. i had overclocked my 560ti quite nicely but have not had the need with my 660ti, i will have to research how to use the msi afterburner on it since i currently only use it for the fan control. i have a cheap antec case but over the weekend added a 120mm fan to the side of the case aimed at the gpu and now my idle temps are 30 degrees celsius.
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Would any of you guys be interested in starting a Kickstarter.com project creating a super GPU expansion box with me?
No, seriously would anyone contribute? Then we could settle the GPU argument once and for all. 
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