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Why is manually assigning the curve is better then sRGB button in VFB?

So how exactly you set up your scene for the nodes to kick in instantly? I just got them connected to the same 1gb/s switch. And still most draft renders the dr is not even there to kick in, and in production render it kicks in only in the middle of the 1st prepass. If it is setup wrong, I might actually rethink my philosophy regarding xeons.

In one hand, the distributed rendering is going to take a long time before all machines load the scene every time you render. So forget about quick draft renderings. On the other hand, a dual Xeon, assuming is also your ws, is immediately available for draft rendering with all cores. No time spent on waiting. Also is cheaper to maintain, less power consumption....

Its cheaper to buy one dual xeon then "few nodes", because you need less max, vray, plugins etc licenses.

Windows 8.1. Maybe not better in rendering but its less heavy for the system then Windows 7.

This keyboard will be the last thing I will experiment.

Import only or link capable?

Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical 1.1a. 10 years ago I bought a full box of these. Best mouse in history. And a 70$ Razor mouse pad and a 15$ simple wireless keyboard (no shortcut and multimedia keys at all) I got at OfficeDepot.

Average scene around 10m polys. The driver is a certified I downloaded from autodesk. I think this is more then a proof for me that the age of Quadros is over. I'm not planning on gpu rendering, only need high viewport performance. You sure GTX 760 will be the best choise? Why not 280x?

Hello, I'm getting sick of the Quadro 4000 I already have. It really prevents my employee from working properly (when I found time to test it myself I had to go out and relax. so frustrating) and I want to make a little upgrade. BUT, I don't want to buy another GTX 780, its still an expensive card. We work in 3Ds Max 2014, AutoCAD Architecture 2014. I have these options in mind: Gigabyte GTX760 OC - 475% Sapphire Radeon R9 280X TOXIC - 495$ Gigabyte GTX770 OC - 540$ What do you say?

For these situations I use R-Drive. 5 minutes system image restore and everything's like it was on day one.

500$ is for a floating license... so although its a floating license is still need to buy it per-computer? They can su*k on that

What do you think about archvision rpc cutouts? really worth it or you just stick with Aviz's A2Dimage? I wander if its worth the money but its expensive... (500$ a year )

In your place I would just take a GeForce and ditch the Quadro idea. I don't understand why waisting 1000$ (in my country) on a useless Quadro when you can get a decent GeForce for half the price, if not more.

NO. GTX780 is NO match to Quadro 4000. The Quadro is an overpriced piece of crap. This is my long story told short: I had a huge problem about a year ago with my previous workstation that forced me to buy a new nearly identical workstation and send the broken one to the lab. I was in a lot of pressure and short of time, I couldn't disappoint my clients so I just did things as fast as possible. I didn't want any surprises and wanted to go back to work as fast as possible so both machines ended up the same. The only difference is the GTX 780 instead of Quadro 4000. Since day 1 the new workstation didn't want to work with Windows 7 (I got a BSOD when doing nothing. Even pluging a USB could cause BSOD. It was that bad), so I tried to install Windows 8.1 Preview. Regarding Windows 8.1 - Its magic. This windows literally revived my new machine. All BSODs were gone for good. Anyway. I installed all my software again and continued working. After 10 days my previous workstation came back from repair (I was told they started memtest86 and went for a coffee. When they came back there were like 40K errors. They showed me a picture of it, unfortunately I don't have it today) and only after I launched the same project on it I realized what I have been missing with this stupid Quadro. I recreated the same conditions in both machines (both machines are based on same hardware so I just mirrored the system image) and still the machine with the GTX behaved much better in viewports. For test I made a scene full of GeoSpheres. The Quadro at 25 million poly was already a piss-off. The GTX was great at 25 million poly and at 70 million poly I stopped since I have proved that point to myself. So - the age of Quadro for 3ds max is over.