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Hardware Upgrade
Good news, everyone!
With Nvidia looking to want to get rid of more supply of 3000 series parts, at least near the top end, prior to the launch of 4000 series later this year. I manged to get my hands on a 3080 12GB for a decent price, ~$800 including taxes. It is expected to arrive on Saturday. However I won't be able to install it right away due to me needing to buy a new PSU, my current one is a fully moduler one with only 2 8-pins connected and I don't know where the other cables are, plus it is near a decade old now and is an 80+ Bronze, so I said screw it, it's easier to just buy a new one. Sadly though Amazon is claiming that it likely won't arrive until August 1st.
The good news for this project is, that with this upgrade, I should be able have longer updates thanks to scenes rendering faster, as well as have higher quality images thanks to being able to achieve higher render iterations in the same amount of time (currently I get between 500 and 1,000 iterations in a 2 hour render depending on how busy a scene is). I should also be able to use dForce when I want after this upgrade, technically dForce works with AMD but due to a bug with Daz, that I reported but that they seem to consider a user issue, it fails to load the OpenCL Kernel with more recent AMD cards when using recent drivers, in theory if I used an old ~2019 driver dForce would work on my system but since I use my system for more then just this project I have no desire to use an ancient driver.
With Nvidia looking to want to get rid of more supply of 3000 series parts, at least near the top end, prior to the launch of 4000 series later this year. I manged to get my hands on a 3080 12GB for a decent price, ~$800 including taxes. It is expected to arrive on Saturday. However I won't be able to install it right away due to me needing to buy a new PSU, my current one is a fully moduler one with only 2 8-pins connected and I don't know where the other cables are, plus it is near a decade old now and is an 80+ Bronze, so I said screw it, it's easier to just buy a new one. Sadly though Amazon is claiming that it likely won't arrive until August 1st.
The good news for this project is, that with this upgrade, I should be able have longer updates thanks to scenes rendering faster, as well as have higher quality images thanks to being able to achieve higher render iterations in the same amount of time (currently I get between 500 and 1,000 iterations in a 2 hour render depending on how busy a scene is). I should also be able to use dForce when I want after this upgrade, technically dForce works with AMD but due to a bug with Daz, that I reported but that they seem to consider a user issue, it fails to load the OpenCL Kernel with more recent AMD cards when using recent drivers, in theory if I used an old ~2019 driver dForce would work on my system but since I use my system for more then just this project I have no desire to use an ancient driver.
