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Hi, I chickened out. Got an old 5,1 tower and maxed it out with 3 GPUs.

Thanks KGP! That sentence was exactly what I was looking for (perhaps that is worth adding to the Famous Last Words section).

KGP, Are you using this system on a daily basis? Any regular issues or would you say it is well suited for 24/7 use?

Hello mate - this machine is meant for rendering, not games. SLI is not used in render plugs. They address multiple cards using CUDA instead.

Two 1080 TIs are crazy fast, yes indeed. But four (three to render and one for system accelleration) are near light speed. I will lurk around for some weeks and see if anyone else guinea pigs such a setup.

With the Pascal news today this inquiry becomes ever more serious. Has anyone come across any 3 or 4 double-wide GPU motherboards that might play nice? So far it seems the likely options are (although I've not found any builds using them):- ASRock Formula OC GA-X99-SLI Rev 1.0 PS perhaps this...

Indeed, four if possible. I've gone through all the motherboards on the buyers guide and it seems the ASRock Formula OC is the only one that could hold four (or at least, going by the photo it can). It is unfortunately yellow, which is something I can get over, but Z170 rather than X99, and my...

Hey BoomR, I've been toying with the idea of using your build as a template for my own and wondered if you could recommended another "approved" x99 motherboard that can fit 4x double width GPUs? Also, are you using this beast on a regular basis - would you say it was reliable as a daily...

I have an Akitio Node that works in OSX, and it apparently works the same in windows too. So I would assume so

Hello there I have no idea what I'm talking about so take this with a grain of salt (where does that saying come from anyway): If octane uses up all your vram it'll die. Regardless, octane is generally buggy in OS X. If the issues are purely with that plugin I wouldn't chalk it up to your system

Interesting. What if I went for 2x double width cards (non SLI) and Thunderbolt eGPUs - is there a recommended motherboard for that?

Hello there, I'm interested in building a hackintosh for rendering. Are there any example builds that are running at least four GPUs? Preferably dual-width monsters like the 980 TI/Titan X Hybrid.

Hi, I'm trying to put together my first build using (pretty much) a Tonymac recommendation and have a few questions. The build is as follows: CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K (as listed) Motherboard: GA-Z77X-UP5-TH (as listed) GPU: eVGA Geforce GTX 680 2gb (as listed) HDs: 4x Seagate 1TB, 1x Samsung...