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Just some random stuff post. I'm still digging around trying to figure out what memory would actually work with what possible system, knowing full well that some of it is not finalized yet to the best of my knowledge, and I'm sure I'm misreading something regarding ranks vs number of dims, lol.
Yesterday a new CPU was announced that looks like it may have potential over the older server processors. The days of twice the cores at half the clock of the desktop siblings may possibly be over (just looking at the core count in the vid). In order for Naples to not be better then the R7 (pure CPU FLOPS), the R7 would have to run at 4.0GHz stock and Naples at 1.0GHz with 32 cores on Naples, I don't think Naples will clock in that low to be honest unless it is a ultra low watt variant. I have no idea what the clocks will be, tho my gut tells me it must be better then 1.0GHz, lol. This is almost like looking at the specs of the Power from IBM with enthusiasm of what is possible for scientific simulation machines (when a supercomputer is just a bit overkill for the task).
As for something a bit smaller, cute, and great for displaying chip PDFs as I lay out PCBs on my workstation (or watching vids while the other comp is on it's knees in 3delight).
The wire rats-nest mount came out of the mothball fleet for deployment
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I've had the Aavid "375124B00032G" on the XU4 for a day and change now, and it looks like the gray goop has squished flat under the heat sink. Siting at the desktop at 34c at around 3.8watts with the room at 76.1F (24.5c), that's a idle at desktop temperature delta of around 9.5c with the fan not running (fan only starts to run at 65c, and when the XU4 is booting up before the desktop loads). The amount of air that went threw the heat sink when the XU4 booted up was phenomenal compared to all the other heat sinks (I have yet to test the blue one). The pin-fins are a bit fragile looking so I did not seat the copper heat spreader onto the heat sink with a vice like I did with all the others, so Ive been taking it easy to let the it gradually settle down the past few days from the mounting spring force.
I put the Aavid on the Odroid so that wider channel in the center is exhausting air across the NIC chip, and it appears to be ding better at that then my former attempts with the other heat sinks. BTW, ignore that white surgical glove powder stuff, that was just a keep the gray thermal goop off my hands side effect. And the sticky white thermal cloth-pad that came on the Aavid, came off like pealing a screen-protector film off a brand new calculator display with no scraping required at all (my initial concerns was unfounded about it being a ceramic adhesive pad super glued on, it's not).
I'm guessing the thermal profile of the Aavid "375124B00032G" with the Delta (AFB0405MA-A) running is a bit closer to the "3751320-PAM04010-P0". Simply because the other chart dose not go up to 20watts and the Odroid dose have a thermal controlled fan (5V not 12V) power plug. You would still need to make a wire rats-nest mount for the Odroid XU4. Relax, that was a dead Pentium-533 fan I diced up into a Transition Duct, not a new fan
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To missquote Scott Manley, "Unleash the Coolers", lol.
OK, a bit of a status update before I head off to finish the 'Transplant' of the A75M-HVS dumpster-find motherboard and A8-3850 donated CPU. It's getting 16GB of Ballistix DDR3 memory, a GT740, a new copy of 64bit windows instead of the 32bit that it originally came with, and what you see here. BTW, mom dose not exactly 'Game' on her comp, unless you consider mine sweeper and bejeweled a watt-hog GPU demanding game, lol.
The two big pitfalls of the old computer case was that there is no intake vents at all on the thing, and the motherboard stand-offs are the wrong height. The new Core 1300 is vastly better in that regard, and will let the GPU actually plug into the PCIe slot properly. It just took far longer then I wanted scraping up pennies in the "Eat Ramen noodles for mom's computer parts jar" to get the OS and SSD (Utmost thanks to Paul's Hardware for the advise there, it saved a few months of scraping by.)
I brainstormed for some time on how to mount the fan controller, and this is the best I came up with (It works). It puts the PCB where it can get some cooling, and that PCB dose not require an app running in windows just for the fans to run,
KISS, lol.
I need to dust that off some, as it sat here far longer then I wanted mom to put up with the auto-play slam face in book Website crashing windows after a page or so of vids. I suspect that the browser may also have a limit as well, however with an OS that can see all 16GB of ram it should not blue screen the comp.
There is some more to do, tho that stuff is at mom's house already (for her to chose colors of the sound absorbers and stuff). I will do my best to get good photos, however do not expect a epileptic inducing RGB farce, it's the one thing mom explicitly did Not want. She wanted an inexpensive quiet cool running low-watt computer for web browsing (face book and other on-line shopping like stuff).
Hello, still alive, just been hanging out over at GamersNexus learning all kinds of stuff about computer cooling and what-not. And I think I have something remotely, if not vaguely, daz related, to post here, lol. I was looking at the clocks and thermals of my GT730 display driver card and contemplating something kind of cool.
Here I'm doing a cool test on the card's OpenGL capacity under load (at least it is not throttling, there is that). I have two G3F figures in the test chamber and I'm spinning around them at warp speed just to load down the GT730 with an over the top ZDG type load. The card is going from an idle temp of around 43c at a room temp of 77.4F (25.222C), to upwards of 56c near peak OpenGL load. And that honestly is the most extensive load the card is exposed to, video playback is nothing close to that and I usually do not spin around stuff that fast in a scene setting stuff up, lol.
I can't help but to think that putting a copper heat spreader under that aluminum heat sink would drastically stabilize the load to no-load temps, dramatically for the 23 watt card. I'm just not ready yet to risk a mistake during surgery killing my only low watt display GPU, not yet.
As for other stuff. My camera is still over my mothers house, and I need to finish her computer sooner rather then later. I also came down with a nasty head cold for almost a weak, and didn't do much other then watch vids and look at beta-stuff I can't talk about yet
, lol. Hopefully things will get back to normal mass mayhem here soon enough, I am feeling a bit better now and it's just a mater of catching up on a few things.
Oh, one other note. After hearing a nasty rumble like tone from the Noctua fans at low RPM, I decided to try out some NZXT Aer F fans. At first glance the airflow is sufficient for moms computer, and there is no tonal noise at all from them, just the sound of moving air. I have No pics of them yet, because my camera is not here, it's on the other side of town from here, lol.
I so wish I was skilled enough in hex and Daz Studio to rapidly model stuff like this out. Oh well.
I really like the concept of the Define C, it just has a few minor difficulties that I wish could be worked with for a larger version of the thing. The smaller mid-tower ATX will be quite good for most non-workstation builds, and the style for once is not over the top
I have a SSD obj, I think I have a HDD obj somewhere, and I can scale that 40mm fan up to 120mm easily enough. That ATX motherboard tray will be the PITA to model in hex with accurate dimensions, and that's the critical bit for laying out computer case layouts, lol.
Morning y'all. I have been a bit busy caring speakers and digging around the stats of new stuff of late. Today I'm relaxing a bit and catching up on GN vids I've missed the past two days.
As for Daz3d stuff, I've ordered some new keyboards as this K120 keys are getting so sloppy that working in Headus is difficult if not tedious, lol.
Also there is that GTX1050Ti that found it's way into the shopping cart. It is not a sub-100-watt 8GB GTX1070, however it will be interesting to see how that 75watt card dose against the 120 watt GTX960 that can't keep it's cool in Iray, lol. Oh, and is that an AM4 cooler in there as well, it is. The AM4 R7 system upgrade jar is not full enough to get a system upgrade yet, tho I can get some stuff to test out for the eventual upgrade. The other cooler I'm going to be looking at is the five-pipe Noctua AM4 cooler. What would be really nice is to drop a sixteen-core or thirty-two-core Naples CPU into a AM4 x370 board, tho I'm not holding my breath.
Oh, and on a side note, that Aavid pin-fin array cooler has been on the Odroid XU4 with the makeshift transition duct for a bit over a month now, and it is very impressive. It is in fact keeping the temps under 65c with the 5V Delta fan on the Odroid's fan header. I'm very very very pleased with it, now I just need to work on a bracket that is not bailing wire, lol.
after noon. well some stuff has arrived, and I'm still looking at stuff. yet I am very happy to say the POS keyboards have been evicted from my premises, lol.
I'm currently on the Logitech G610 giving the keys a try before trying the more Disco floor looking Corsair K70.
At the very least it is easy without software to turn off the breathing lights on the G610, and the keys are vastly better then the former dozen POS things that have been on this desk after the Saitek Eclipse gave up the ghost. I almost wonder if the k70 will be any better or if the disco lights will make it impossible to work with, lol. I will find out soon enough when I attempt to UV map that tablet PC in the former posts render
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I'm also looking over the EVGA GTX1050Ti ixt PCB, and over all it looks ok. I would have liked the PCIe-12v plug to be in use to alleviate the power load on my aging M5A97 motherboard, and I'm not totally sold on the intel stock cooler looking heat sink under the shroud. And it would have been nice if Nvidia had given parental permission for more then just 4GB of memory on the 75 watt card. However at only 4GB, I'm not sure if it will be any better at all then the other rather limited 4GB cards I've looked at so far. I will test it shortly after temps cool down in here a bit, it got up to 80F today, and that was a tad uncomfortable to be doing stuff, lol.
While I try out the K70 that already has two strikes against it, today is a holiday is it not. So, I guess the question to consider for today is weather or not something started as a cleansing ritual, or a prank of toss the new guy in the pool.
I will say that I had a lot of fun with the outfit. Even for non related stuff.
And the outfit really looks good.
Yet I should also actually look at the stuff the outfit came with as well, there is a lot of good stuff that came with the set.
So let me back up a bit and get some screen-caps of the cool stuff in the Egypt Bundle.
Because I'm sure the Asgard had nothing to do with the bundle, lol.
One other note. Don't forget to get a good stone shader with the bundle. because I'm sure Liam will gladly sell you some stone that may or may not be genuine. lol.
Unlike the stone featured by Liam, the outfit has Iray shaders that also look fantastic (the above is 3delight without any cloth presets on the outfit).
Ipo is a large framed fellow, and it did take some adjustment dial work to get the skirt to fit his muscular thighs. Also had to rotate his arm just a tad to get his thumb out of the belt for pose "03m".
over all Ipo was the most difficult figure I had tried the outfit on, most others simply needed some pose adjustments for the variation between the pose preset and the shape of the figure.
It's a nice outfit that will not having you praying to some Goa'uld that it will function.
Love the "prank" render, it's so cool how you play with the traditional Egyptian art in those poses =D
Thank you Kettu and Fisty. The prank render was just fooling around with posing the outfit to see If I could break it, lol. the rest sort of just happened. As for other stuff, I think I ran into a rather interesting glitch, and I'm not looking forward to cycling back threw GTX10 drivers till I find one that behaves with Iray.
When I first installed the GTX1050Ti, I ran the Iray test scene to make sure it was running on the correct card and not the GT730, and it was. It had also cranked out that test render in about 5 minutes and 16 seconds. Of course after a reboot, the cards have been getting stuck at idle clocks in odd ways, and that kind of makes testing the GTX1050Ti a bit difficult when it is not cranking up it's GPU and memory properly. I have tried a few things the past few days, and all that remains is the nvidia driver version 381.65 is just not working properly. and I have no idea how far back I need to go before I find a driver that will let the cards actually work at something other then minimum idle clocks.
Also, about a day in on the K70, and a few keys are sticking electrically, producing double and triple key strokes. It looks like the G610 is the far better keyboard for production work.
And he's really good at breaking stuff.. I swear he finds the smallest things to complain about. LOL But thats (one of the reasons) why we love him.
Yea, and most of the time I stumble on to them. I got an email today that was flagged as not sent by the sender. Long story short Sabby Fynne over at renderosity had been updated for some Iray stuff, and I forgot she was in my runtime. I'm often quiet about stuff from there for a few reasons, not the least of is it is not Daz3D and the PAs don't get much if any thing at all from stuff sold there. Makes me feel horrible about even mentioning bad stuff about the products there.
Total Rendering Time: 56 minutes 8.90 seconds (solo on the GTX1050Ti)
Over all not a bad figure, and no broken stuff. Just two things that I sort of prefer to have. One I think I can do my self now that I am sort of aware of that ERC frieze thing (no body dial), should be easy enough to make, I think. The other will be a bit of hell for something that is incredibly minor and just not worth the effort. We are talking a ten USD figure before rendorosity takes there commission, so I'd rather not bother sabby over a minor issue that I feel the time would be better spent on other things (there are other figures of hers that I like a bit more). As for the new Iray mats, If I can get this GTX1050Ti to work properly that will be very nice to see, as of now the GT740 is performing better then it in Iray. Yea, I'm a bit more concerned with the stuck at idle clocks of the GTX1050Ti then anything over at another retail outlet.
ok, one more for the fun of trying stuff. FWSA 3DS Karrie in Iray, with Izabella 7 ears
Total Rendering Time: 15 minutes 31.23 seconds (solo on the GTX1050Ti, same settings). The GTX1050Ti render times are just so all over the place, even with back to back Iray benchmark test scene runs. I'm not sure what is better, the GTX960 that cant keep it's cool, or this thing that is just all over the place, lol.
(EDIT, that is just the head shape, oops). OK, here is all of FWSA 3DS Karrie in Iray, with Izabella 7 ears.
nothing other then the body dial adjusted for the figure shape (it is not the figure), and the GTX1050Ti started drooling on it's self again. Total Rendering Time: 31 minutes 20.37 seconds.
I think I have an idea of where the culprit is, I'll need to do a bit more testing I will not bore y'all with until I figure out exactly what it is. As a side note, this is FWSA 3DS Karrie in Iray, with the V7 body dial backed off to 25% and Izabella 7 ears.
Total Rendering Time: 15 minutes 9.4 seconds, Ah yea
Something is a tad haywire with the EVGA GTX1050Ti fan speed control app I think.
It keeps going into limp mode sporadically and I need to nudge the OC dials back and forth to prod the card back to normal clocks.
Morning, working on my first cup of coffee. I've just read about a hack to make windows 7 do updates normally on Ryzen and Kaby Lake processors. It is a hack of a sorts that just bypasses the CPU check, and I'm sure Microsoft will be super quick to patch it to Sith Force Choke people into using Windows 10. lol.
My win10 gripes are super limited to two basic interface things, that literally make win10 painful to use with my handicap (combined mouse and keyboard origami clicking stuff is not my thing). I like my thumbs to not be aching after a few seconds of using my computers, lol. So I'm not sure what will happen in the future, tho I do know that the win10 interface as it is is not for me, and I have other things more immediate to be worrying about any way.
I think I know what the mistake was with the GTX1050Ti, tho I'm not sure how much of it is just a glitch I stumbled on to. After that first test run to make sure Daz Studio was running Iray on the correct card, I set up a slightly more aggressive fan curve in the EVGA app and saved that to a profile. I did not touch any thing else at all, just the fan curve.
Then like an idiot, I assumed CUDA/Iray was considered a 2D thing and left the 3D profile blank. I jkust assumed the ccard would do it's normal thing with the other profile set to 'Not Assigned' with only a modified fan curve in the 2D thing'.
I'm still not sure how that triggered the card to go into lobotomized mode when doing CUDA/Iray stuff, tho apparently the fix (so far) is to set up two profiles and set each of them in that 2D and 3D thing. 
I don''t know if the second profile needs to be there for the same settings of the profiles, I decided to not confuse things more and saved the second profile with the same settings as the first. I've yet to reboot the comp to see if things stick, yet for now Iray appears to be working fine on the card at full clocks, for the moment at least.
It may be that the nvidia 381.65 driver is just lobotomized, and it takes a profile in the OC utility to override the drivers goofy clock settings.
morning. the GTX1050Ti appears to be doing ok back at normal clocks with seti@home running on it. so as soon as the temps get below 80F in here, I'll resume the Iray testing I was going to do on the card.
I also got a shipment of fan RPM thermal controllers, and it looks like a grab-bag rather then four of what I ordered, so that is a bit of a setback.
I am absolutely sure that the units I ordered had 10k ohm TNC plugs on the PCB, not random impedance pigtails on some and a stub on the others.
I guess the hint should have been the watt and amp output ratting that did not match on the product 'Frustration free packaging' page listing, lol. Much to be doings not much time.
ok, just a quick recap as I clean things up a bit around here before testing the viability of that commodity fan thermal control board. over a year ago, the A2029 on the exhaust side of my CPU cooler gave up the ghost. The mother board is useless, as it ramps all fans up to max RPM the instant you disable the power saving stuff for better performance. In a hurry I grabbed a fan out of the moth ball fleet that at least has a RPM control knob, yet it is a pain to need to babysit the thing, and the SilverStone FM122 is incredibly old (over twelve years and some) and need to be retired permanently.
So, enter the days of no TNC plugs on fans, and all looks and no CFM designs. Or is there something that can work without sounding like a helicopter under your desk. I know this fan has been running full tilt next to me the past month, and is in audible next to the GTX1050Ti fan.
It can move some air, just not as much as the discontinued A2029's at full tilt. And it is not a thumper blade vein angle design
. As long as you do not need over a hundred CFM on hot days, you should be fine with the Aer F fan by NZXT. It just dose not have a TNC plug. I was hoping the fan thermal controller in the former post would be better then initial impressions, some soldering will be needed to make that work.
I have to upgrade my system soon and looking at your photos I'm just thinking to myself "what a pain in the ass"
yes. even just swapping out that fan is a bit of a pain. replacing a power supply or doing something to the motherboard is even more daunting. Yet, if it goes well it can be quite rewording to have something working just a tad better.
Thanks to some kind sole at a Russian overclockers forum, I now know the full calamity of my situation with the motherboard I have. mostly because I was unwilling to remove the board to start stabbing it with a multi meter, lol. It's not a lot of fun to be working on your workstation when there is not a spare to use for looking stuff up on, and that is something I will need to address soon enough.
It looks like the USB traces are a tad close to the VRM fets, and there is no fixing that. And it also dose not look like it will be easy to tack on another 12v plug for power to the PCIe slots. It looks like the reason for the board not posting with a high watt card in the top PCIe slot has nothing to do with over current monitoring (I'm not seeing any thing like that on any 12v plug).
fyi, the original unmarked up pics are from here. Kettu may have no problem reading this, others will need to translate it, and it is a rather dated board at this point. http://www.overclockers.ru/lab/45122_2/Obzor_i_testirovanie_materinskoj_platy_ASUS_M5A97.html
I'm still looking around and trying to figure out how many months of ramen noodles it will take to replace the current workstation. Memory is still a bit of a hit or miss on R7, and the better x99 i7 systems are far to pricey for me. I am not a gamer, so a 7700k will not be better then what I already have, especially for the price, lol.
OK, I've done my preliminary Iray testing on the GTX1050Ti (GP107), and it is now time to attempt to get the motherboard to boot with the card in the first slot (the only one that the BIOS display works from).
As for Iray, I think I had goofed and was running my initial dose the driver work off both the GTX1050Ti and the GT730, and that gave me that impressive 5 minute and 16 second renter time. I have since reinstalled the driver, and run a bunch of test runs that all came in at the 12 minute mark even with a hundred or so MHz fluctuation in boost clock of the card. Times consistent with the earlier runs except when the card fell asleep on the job and went into idle mode in the middle of rendering, lol.
So, I've taken the numbers and put the average into the magic horsepower per watt calculator spread sheet I made a mess of, and here is the results.
While the GTX1050Ti is not a complete disaster in Iray, compared to the far more efficient GT730 and the much more capable GTX960 watt-hog, the GTX1050Ti falls a bit short. Being the newest generation card of the bunch makes it a bit pitiful that it is not available with more memory then what former generation cards maxed out at
4GB is all you can get. For a budget gaming card, or something to just get by for the simplest of scenes in Iray, the GTX1050Ti can do the job, so long as your ok with not having the best in either raw horse power or getting the most Miles Per Gallon out of your electric bill.
If your interested in how the GTX1050Ti fairs with gaming, Gamers Nexus, and others have some fantastic articles about the Ti and non Ti models.
http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2658-gtx-1050-ti-and-1050-review-benchmarks-vs-460-more
And here is a good set of vids that shows the game play of the card on various generations of i5 CPUs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ovUyNQpoc
ok, just a small bit of some more testing.
The OpenGL performance of the GTX1050Ti is quite acceptable and will probably be fine for a display card to go alongside your dedicated Iray crunch card. Now I'm not surprised by the results of the Cinibench R15 OpenGL test, I am surprised that the 75 watt card posted at all in the first slot of the M5A97, given that other high watt cards with power connectors failed to post. I have a few more things to test not related to Daz3D, especial given the card actually worked.
I will close this "I am alive post" with a small note as of now. If you have a GTX960, then the GTX1050Ti (and nonTi) cards are mostly a downgrade, unless you're willing to sacrifice performance for lower watts on a card that must have a fan to keep it's cool. The 6GB GTX1060 and the 1070/1080 cards are a much better upgrade from a GTX960. And under no circumstance can I recommend a card with less than 4GB this day and age, and that includes the 3GB GTX1060. The 6GB 1060 is not that much more, and it will work with more game HD add-ons than a 3GB card, not to say Iray.
Oh my, Zarcon, this is a "King's Quest" size of job, all that testing and reading and whatever.
Yea, and thanks, Kettu. I know I'm not the only one trying to do stuff on a very limited budget that has almost no room for failure of even trivial stuff to actually work. There are lots of reviews and charts that show the render performance of multi-thousand dollar graphics cards and processors. Yet as soon as you dip below the thousand dollar mark, finding non-gaming benchmarks on the more affordable computer stuff is rare at best. It is a case of what gets the most views for the particular market, and for PCs, it is games not production oriented stuff.
I want to help others avoid making mistakes they can not afford with limited budgets, and I just happen to be in a position where I need to get a few low-watt budget oriented items anyway to replace dead computers. My HTPC has a dead AM2 motherboard that is a tad bit old at this point, and my crunch box also has a dead motherboard that happens to be a tad old to be doing 3delight stuff on. There all AGP, and thus I must get a collection of PCIe cards to toss in them anyway. There is a rumor about a possible GTX1030 that has perked my interest as a hypothetical fanless GT730 DAW replacement, however, it is just rumor at this point and any specs as of now are just speculation. There is an RX550 that I keep hearing about in passing, however, I have doubts that the ATI/AMD drivers will play nice with a Nvidia CUDA compute card in the same box. So for now, the 384 CUDA core GT730 is staying in my DAW as the display card. The GTX1050Ti may go into the HTPC, if it is quiet enough to not be distracting when watching movies. The GTX960 may end up in the crunch-box with a yet to be determined low watt display card (pending on how the GTX1030 pans out).
BTW, I have not forgotten the other thing, I just ran into a bit of an SSD space issue, as "World of Tanks" and "World of Warships" will not fit on the spare 60GB SSD I had sitting here (I will get yet another drive on the third). So that SWRC thing has mostly been a passive sit back and watching the vids thing. Mostly SWRC is a fan of star wars that is more into reading novels than me, and has accumulated a vast knowledge of the non-cannon universe. He hosts various short what is what vids on youtube, and invites discussions there and on twitch regarding such, from the movies to games to the cartoon series, and books.
Speaking of, AM4 motherboards. There are a few that I would avoid at all costs for render stuff, there not designed to handle that kind of consistent prolonged workloads (not just overclocking). One would be the Asrock B350 boards (AB350M Pro 4, AB350 Pro 4 and AB350 Gaming K4) with six inductors on the CPU VRM, the others would be AM4 boards from MSI as the no-brand FETs are willfully incapable (they are so bad, you simply can not get them at reputable component distributors. I called around and checked.). I simply can not thank Buildzoid enough for the heads up on that one. Just replace the word "Overclocking" with "High workload Stability" every time he sais it in his vids, unless you're into overclocking.
So, noticed that you are running EVGA's overclocking utility. I tried it once on an older Dell Precision notebook. and it locked the card down to the safe mode 100mhz speed when I tried overclocking it. From the research I did while trying to fix it, I found that it's a pretty common issue with that software.
Normaly I use MSI Afterburner and have had no issues with it. (Quadro 4000M, Quadro K5000M, GTX 760, GTX 560M, GTX 965M, and GTX 1060 are all cards I have overclocked with this software) It is a little more conservative in how far it will let you OC your cards. I was trying to squeeze a higher clock out of that Quadro 4000M, with Afterburner I maxed the settings out and had a GPU temp of 72c under full load. So I downloaded and installed EVGA's utility and cranked up the OC a bit, it worked fine. Tried a second time with the next step up OC and as soon as I hit apply, 100mhz and it wouldn't budge. Tried uninstalling the drivers, reinstalling, tried older versions, nothing helped. Ended up fixing it by uninstalling the GPU drivers and then uninstalling the EVGA software with no GPU driver installed. That was a very frustrating evening.
On a side note, just for your info. The GTX 1060 6GB version is very nice for Iray renders. Stock clock on the benchmark scene
GPU only = 4min46sec
GPU + CPU = 4min4sec (Computer = Dell Precision T7500 - Dual Intel Xeon X5570 @ 3.13 GHZ 24GB RAM)
And here is the kind of work my GTX 1060 is getting in Studio. Every single bit of light in the scene is a shader. Every single light fixture in the ceiling, the ring of lights in the baseboard, and all of the screens and consoles are emithing light.
Onward to a question! Is there any way with the figure setup tools to set alternate geometry? I'm trying to have one figure that can just switch out the chair back as needed. geometry is not the same, so I can't use a morph.
Those are incredible looking renders JamesJAB, and I suspected the 120 watt GTX1060 would be about in line with the 120 watt GTX960 or 145 watt GTX970 with possibly a little better performance. Thanks for the render times, I was debating if I should get a GTX1060 just for testing, or skip straight to an 8GB card to see if it can be under clocked to save power. It will not happen this month as I need to do some hard drive upgrades. As for the EVGA tool vs other tools, as I have mentioned other places, the other tools will not run unless you have a card from that manufacturer, regardless if it is Zotac Evga Msi etc (so what tool is used on founders edition cards directly from nvidia, lol). I do agree that the EVA tool is flakey at best, tho it is not the only one with flaws, lol.
I did do some clock testing on the GTX1050Ti, and the GTX960. overclocking ran temps much higher than I wanted in my computers, and running the clocks the other way only had a pointless effect on iray render times. a difference of around twenty seconds at most on multiple minutes renders. less then one percent for the amount of fan noise and power draw truly is not worth the trade off. Just like the GT730 vs the GT740, just with a far less improvement in 0.1% fps lows per say, lol.
Let me get some coffee and think about the viable ways to have a chair with multiple backs. multiple objects, or invisible zones on the unused seat backs. I don't think there is another way reasonably speaking aside from "shrinking" the unused seat back inside something to hide it.
I have not found an Nvidia card that MSI Afterburner will not run on. I've used it on 2 Dell Laptops with Nvidia Quadro cards, one Ibuypower (Sager/Clevo) laptop with a GTX 560M, One Cyberpower laptop with a GTX 965M, and several desktop cards from various manufaturers (GTX 560ti, GTX 760, GTX 1060, GT 720 and others thaht I can't think of right now).
I know there is a way to set up a morph dial that swaps geometry, it's an old trick that's been used since the old Poser days (before Daz Studio existed), I just have no idea how to impliment it.
ok, it may just be easiest to make a morph dial that shrinks each seat back to 1% scale and moves it down into the seat. Somewhere in the past 60 pages was a hint that Fisty posted for selecting surface zones rather than fussing with D-formers to do that if you're rigging the seat back with bones. Otherwise, if it is just a stack of objects, then other ways may be just as easy. I know a few hair styles use the shrink thing to hide bangs, so it can't be that difficult to fumble through. Then set up an erc freeze dial to control the two shrink deals to swap between them. it may take some dsf file notepad++ editing as well.
I don't think you can have a daz studio dial tied to opacity of multiple zones like that, to have one fade out as the other fades in, I don't think.
I've just been a tad distracted this morning with paying bills and other stuff.
I don't know about other manufacturers, but the MSI software does not seem to care who makes the card.
ah, wow.
I hope that gets sorted out soon enough. It's kind of difficult to see what that is a demo of.
ok, a bit of a promising day, I hope.
Oh, y'all don't care that much about the new GN shirt, even tho it is quite comfortable, lol. I got some stuff to do some transfers, been running low on disk space of late.
I did need to do some significant mods to the Sandisk Ultra II drive as it was getting a tad warm for my comfort. Significantly hotter than all my other drives. The much older Extreme II was built much better than the new budget SSD's.
The next task I have yet to decide what direction to take it yet. Either the DIM cache folder or my documents need to be moved from the existing 1TB drive onto a new 2TB drive. That should free up enough space for me to check out some stuff that has been tormenting me the past month, lol.