Hi,Hello. I want to buy this kit (deal from Natex: dual 2670 - 128GB) to build a rendering workstation, but rendering in GPU mode (Octane, basically). The xeons will help my work with 3D (viewport and simulations + after effects) and I like the 6 (5+1) PCIe slots.
I already have a gtx 1080 + 1070 + 980ti and probably will upgrade all to 1080 as add a 4th one.
You guys seem to know how this kit works, so do you think it would be a good idea to buy to GPU rendering?
Cheers!
The issue with this setup for your GPU requirements, is that 4 GPU will not work in this motherboard. If you look closely at the 8x PCI-e ports, only 2 (the blue ones) are open to allow a 16x card fit in there. The others are closed. My guess is the most high performance GPUs that will fit in this motherboard is 3.
As far as the the 2670 Xeons being good for viewport/simulations, I suggest a lower number of cores, with higher clock speed. As great as 16 cores/32 threads sound, I've found very few instances where I'm happy with the scaling. For After Effects comps, these would do well as long as you forgo multithreaded renders and send multiple single threaded batches. For this, I use RenderPal.