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Technical discussions => General discussion => Topic started by: taffyb on September 13, 2011, 01:31:55 AM

Title: NVIDIA Quadro 5000 - How can I utilise its full power?
Post by: taffyb on September 13, 2011, 01:31:55 AM
Hi all,

I've just installed a new graphics card into my machine with the spec of:

Asus Rampage III Extreme,
Processor Intel core i7 CPU, 980@3.33ghz - Overclocked to 4.17ghz,
24gb RAM
64bit Windows 7.

I've just installed the graphics card & i'm noticing that on the monitoring software i'm running to check the cards usage that only approx 25% of the cards power is being utilised in both rendering & usage.

How can optimise the software to make the most use of the card?

Thanks

Brent
Title: Re: NVIDIA Quadro 5000 - How can I utilise its full power?
Post by: PhilippeV8 on September 13, 2011, 02:06:21 AM
KeyShot is CPU based render ... not GPU.  Isn't it ?!?
Title: Re: NVIDIA Quadro 5000 - How can I utilise its full power?
Post by: guest84672 on September 13, 2011, 10:54:37 AM
Yes. CPU only.
Title: Re: NVIDIA Quadro 5000 - How can I utilise its full power?
Post by: taffyb on September 14, 2011, 06:11:12 AM
Cheers both - never mind.

I seem to have another problem now though in that when i hit render an constant alarm beep goes off & only stops when I stop the rendering.

Any ideas of what could cause this? 

Thanks

Brent
Title: Re: NVIDIA Quadro 5000 - How can I utilise its full power?
Post by: PhilippeV8 on September 14, 2011, 07:17:22 AM
My guess is that you have set a max CPU temperature in your bios and as soon as you start rendering and it gets to 100% CPU load it starts to heat up ?
Title: Re: NVIDIA Quadro 5000 - How can I utilise its full power?
Post by: jhiker on September 16, 2011, 12:32:51 AM
Quote from: Thomas Teger on September 13, 2011, 10:54:37 AM
Yes. CPU only.

Don't you need a GPU supporting OpenGL and 'frame buffers' to take advantage of the 'Realtime effects' i.e. bloom and vignetting?
Title: Re: NVIDIA Quadro 5000 - How can I utilise its full power?
Post by: Ralf-S on September 16, 2011, 06:31:31 AM
Quote from: jhiker on September 16, 2011, 12:32:51 AM
Quote from: Thomas Teger on September 13, 2011, 10:54:37 AM
Yes. CPU only.

Don't you need a GPU supporting OpenGL and 'frame buffers' to take advantage of the 'Realtime effects' i.e. bloom and vignetting?

Nvidia -> Cuda (http://www.nvidia.de/object/cuda_gpus_de.html)    :)
Title: Re: NVIDIA Quadro 5000 - How can I utilise its full power?
Post by: guest84672 on September 19, 2011, 08:40:49 AM
Yes - but any graphics card does that.

Ralf-S - what do you mean by Nvidia -> Cuda? Certainly NOT for KeyShot.
Title: Re: NVIDIA Quadro 5000 - How can I utilise its full power?
Post by: taffyb on September 27, 2011, 02:40:46 AM
Hi all,

Thanks for the responses - turns out that the power supply for the computer had a fault & wasn't up to the job - new power supply going in tonight.

I have another problem - but I'll start a new thread for it as it seems not to be related.

Cheers

Brent
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