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What's occupying your PCI-e slots?

What's occupying your PCI-e slots?

1. GTX Titan Black
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2. GTX Titan Black
3. blocked
4. Velocity Solo x1 SSD
 
What's occupying your PCI-e slots?

What's occupying your PCI-e slots?
1. NVIDIA GTX 780
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2. CalDigit USB 3 card
3. Areca ARC 1880 SAS Raid controller
4. ATTO Express PCI UL5D
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2009 Mac Pro: 2 x 2.93 GHz 6-core, 32GB RAM, RAID 0/5 Tower with 8 Seagate Cheetah 600 GB, and 4 SSD's
Software: OSX 10.9.3
 
1- AMD R9 280X
2- Inatek USB 3 card
3- Sonnet Tempo SSD
4- ASM 1061 SATA-III card (to be replaced by Sonnet Tempo or Apricorn Velocity Solo x2)
 
pastrychef said:
I thought it would be fun to see what you guys have in your PCI-e slots...
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3x ATI 5970;
9x ATi 4890;
1x ATi 6870;
8x GTX Titan;
8x GTX 780 Ti;
2x GTX 690;
5x GTX 680;
7x GT 640;
22x GTX 590;
5x GTX 580;
6x GTX 480 and
2x GTX 295,

distributed into 21 two, three, four and eight double wide PCIe slotted Mac, Windows and Linux systems, but the vast majority are four double wide PCIe slotted. My four Mac Pros are currently filled with GT 640s, GTX 480s and a GTX 580 and a GTX 680, i.e., 2 double wide cards and a GT 640 per system.
 
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Tutor said:
3x ATI 5970;
9x ATi 4890;
1x ATi 6870;
8x GTX Titan;
8x GTX 780 Ti;
2x GTX 690;
5x GTX 680;
7x GT 640;
22x GTX 590;
5x GTX 580;
6x GTX 480 and
2x GTX 295,

distributed into 21 two, three, four and eight double wide PCIe slotted Mac, Windows and Linux systems, but the vast majority are four double wide PCIe slotted. My four Mac Pros are currently filled with GT 640s, GTX 480s and a GTX 580 and a GTX 680, i.e., 2 double wide cards and a GT 640 per system.
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LOL ! sooo many GPU ! your work does not need fast storage ? I wonder what you use for that ;)

Also are your 4 mac pro linked up in some way that you can say you have 206 cores available for one job ? or do you divvy up manually the workload on separate machine ?
 
shindom said:
LOL ! sooo many GPU ! your work does not need fast storage ? I wonder what you use for that ;)

Also are your 4 mac pro linked up in some way that you can say you have 206 cores available for one job ? or do you divvy up manually the workload on separate machine ?
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My two 32-core systems each have 15+ T of raid storage, in addition to the various raid HDs and SSDs that I have in other systems, and that's more than fast enough for my storage needs. Yes, my 4 Mac Pros are part of my render farm and I sometimes do render using their CPUs, as well as the CPUs in my other 17 systems, on one job. My GPU renderers allow me to render separately from the rendering being handled simultaneously by the CPUs. However, usually I divvy up the workflow based on clusters of systems and some CPU-based and some GPU based rendering so that I can simultaneously do other things, such as compositing and/or AE rendering and/or render some parts of a job with one renderer and other parts with another renderer.
 
Tutor said:
My two 32-core systems each have 15+ T of raid storage, in addition to the various raid HDs and SSDs that I have in other systems, and that's more than fast enough for my storage needs. Yes, my 4 Mac Pros are part of my render farm and I sometimes do render using their CPUs, as well as the CPUs in my other 17 systems, on one job. My GPU renderers allow me to render separately from the rendering being handled simultaneously by the CPUs. However, usually I divvy up the workflow based on clusters of systems and some CPU-based and some GPU based rendering so that I can simultaneously do other things, such as compositing and/or AE rendering and/or render some parts of a job with one renderer and other parts with another renderer.
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Impressive ! .. so for the storage does it means that you have your RAID arrays connected in SATA 2 or extrernal via USB3/FW ?

wow, if I may ask, on a average day at work, how many renderings do you end up doing ?
I imagine you must be running/checking between all your machines quite a bit :D
 
shindom said:
Impressive ! .. so for the storage does it means that you have your RAID arrays connected in SATA 2 or extrernal via USB3/FW ?
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Currently running:
1) MacPro2,1s and 4,1->5,1 (swapped in 2x5675s): Usually (i.e., when I'm not running 3 double wide GPUs in them) 2x 3 drives raid-0, native SATA;
2) Gigabyte UP4's (clock tweaked 2011 - SandyBridge 8-cores) [ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128562 ]: 2 drives raid-0 - native SATA 3;
3) Gigabyte UD3's, Gigabyte UD5's and EVGA SR2s (clock tweaked 1366 - 6 cores - mainly x980s, W3670s, and W5680s for the SR2s): 2 drives raid-0 + SSDs- native SATA 2;
4) Tyan FT72B7015 (B7015F72V2R) Dual LGA1366 2400W 4U Rackmount Server (8-double wide GPUs) (performance enhanced dual X5650s) [ http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=TS-B715V2R ]: 3 SSDs raid-0, native SATA 2;
5) Supermicro SuperServer SYS-8047R-TRF+s (performance enhanced, emulating underclocking on quad E5-4650s) [ http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=SY-847R7FP ] : 15+ T - native SAS.

Each self built system has one or more external USB2 or USB3 - 1.5, 3 or 4 T Seagate backup drives for portability.

More often than not and especially when the weather outside is nice, my 2008 MBP controls this network of systems.

shindom said:
wow, if I may ask, on a average day at work, how many renderings do you end up doing ?
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Isn't every day a work day? I truly don't know what the average is now. Some days there are many thousands, some days several hundreds, and a few days maybe a hundred or so. It just depends on the job.

shindom said:
I imagine you must be running/checking between all your machines quite a bit :D
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I can do more than just imagine it - it's one of my exercise forms, constantly going up and down the 3 flights of stairs of my building. That, pumping iron three times a week and playing basketball four times a week help to keep my 60 year old body in shape.
 
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I just noticed that Apple's Feedback form has the question "How many PCI slots do you use?" That's interesting to me, considering they don't sell a single computer with PCI slots any more.

Every single person in this thread should go to that form and answer the question "How many PCI slots do you use?". Also, fill out the comment field with something like "bring back PCI slots".

http://www.apple.com/feedback/mac-pro.html

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In any case, here's my entry:

4 -
3 - Sonnet Allegro
2 -
1 - GTX980
 
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1 - Radeon HD 5770 1GB
2 - Empty
3 - Inateck USB 3.0 Card
4 - Sonnet USB 2.0 Card

In that SATA slot above is a SanDisk 256GB SSD that I use for Win10. It's so tiny outside the housing that it just sticks in there on its own :)
 

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Mac Pro 2010
PCIe 1: EVGA GTX 680 (Flashed to Mac Edition)
PCIe 2: Intel X520-DA2 10GbE NIC (Flashed to Small Tree)
PCIe 3: Samsung XP941 512GB SSD
PCIe 4: Sonnet Allegro Pro USB 3.0
 
ActionableMango said:
I just noticed that Apple's Feedback form has the question "How many PCI slots do you use?" That's interesting to me, considering they don't sell a single computer with PCI slots any more.

Every single person in this thread should go to that form, answer the question "How many PCI slots do you use?". Also, fill out the comment field with something like "bring back PCI slots".

http://www.apple.com/feedback/mac-pro.html

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In any case, here's my entry:

4 -
3 - Sonnet Allegro
2 -
1 - GTX980
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Done, I request they bring back the PCIe slots and add some SATA 3 port on the next Mac Pro :D
 
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Here's what's in my 2006 Mac Pro.

4 - Empty
3 - Inateck USB 3 (2-port) - PCIe 1x
2 - Empty
1 - ATI Radeon HD 5770 - PCIe 16x

Yes, not very exciting. But at least every one of the internal SATA ports has something connected to it. :D
 
4 - Marvel 9230 SATA RAID 6Gbps 4-port Controller (to 5.25 bay 4x2.5 Icy Dock MB324SP-B)
3 - Inateck KT4004 4-port USB 3.0
2 - Waiting for PCIe storage
1 - ASUS Strix GTX 970 4GB
 
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ActionableMango said:
I just noticed that Apple's Feedback form has the question "How many PCI slots do you use?" That's interesting to me, considering they don't sell a single computer with PCI slots any more.

Every single person in this thread should go to that form and answer the question "How many PCI slots do you use?". Also, fill out the comment field with something like "bring back PCI slots".

http://www.apple.com/feedback/mac-pro.html

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DONE!

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Thanks for the heads-up!

Cheers
 
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In any case, here's my entry:

4 -
3 - Sonnet Allegro
2 -
1 - GTX980
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One system is:
  1. GTX TITAN X (EVGA 12 GiB 12G-P4-2992-KR overclocked)
  2. GTX TITAN X (EVGA 12 GiB 12G-P4-2992-KR overclocked)
  3. GTX TITAN X (EVGA 12 GiB 12G-P4-2992-KR overclocked)
  4. dual port 10 GbE / FCoE / iSCSI SFP+ controller
  5. (blocked by card in slot 6)
  6. GTX TITAN X (EVGA 12 GiB 12G-P4-2992-KR overclocked)
  7. PCIe 3.0 x8 to PCIe 3.0 six by x4 switch for NVMe disks (five 1.6TB disks for 8TB of NVMe)
  8. empty
  9. dual port 16 Gbps FibreChannel HBA
  • mezzanine slot - dual port 10 GbE / FCoE / iSCSI SFP+ controller
  • mezzanine slot - 16 lane 12 Gbps SAS RAID controller, 4 GiB battery backed cache
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Maybe the better question is "What would you *like* to have occupying your PCIe slots?". ;)
 
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1 - Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX 580 8GB
2 - Sonnet Allegro USB 3 Card
3 - Angelbird Wings PX1 PCIe x4 M.2 adapter with 512Gb Samsung XP951
4 - Addonics Quad mSATA PCIe card with 3 x 500GB Samsung 850 EVO in Raid0
 
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With possibility of PCIe returning, I think this thread needs a bump.

4 -
3 - Sonnet Allegro
2 -
1 - EVGA GTX 980 (MVC-flashed)
 
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