Ga-h77m-d3h Cpu Support List

[Fe Kittner]

Iam planning to buy the gtx 650 ti 2gb or the gtx 650 ti 1 gb.

They are great for gaming but not sure for blending.

I know that the 6 series have driver issues and render about 20% slow then 5 series but I am sacrificing that for the games :yes:;):spin:

More VRAM is definitely better. However, putting GPUs in SLI (or crossfire if you are using AMD openCL programs) does NOT increase their available VRAM. The entire scene still has to fit in the VRAM of each GPU.

6xx series are a slight improvement over the 5xx for a little more VRAM on some models and a minor improvement in heat buildup but are no replacement for 5xx series at present. My advice at this point is to wait a little while for the upcomming 7xx as they will have even more VRAM, better thermal output, and finally be faster at compute than the 5xx.

You can render the landscape file with 1 GB but not the opelGT file with 1 GB.

Landscape work with instances, every tree is only once in memory, but opel is highpoly geometry and need about 800 MB.

Your system need about 200-300 MB for Display only!

THe GTX 650 is about 15 % slower than my GTX 550 and is a low-mid end card for GPU rendering.

Keep you money and go for a GTX 660Ti 2 GB or higher or if your mainboard support it, go for a GTX 650Ti 2 GB and add a second later. This is also good for workflow to have one card for display and one for render during setup and use both for final render.

Bur more expensive than one bigger card.

There was a discussion on the Nvidia forums that the 7 Series has been delayed. Was first thought it would be late this year to March next year, but the 6 series has been so popular - people are still paying top for a card with a chip in it that is weaker than the 5 series for rendering (although, not for gaming). If they are still making money, I doubt they will release the next generation until the 6 series sales starts evening out.

The motherboard has only one PCIe x16 and two PCIe x1, i would look for at least one PCIe x16 + one PCIe x4 or x8.

Often you have two PCIe x16 but if you use both they cut to 2 x x8 what is ok but PCIe x1 is to slow.

Rest of your config sounds good.

Intel DH67CL should do fine but i think at the same price range you can get a H77 board which supports pcie 3.0 and high clock rate (1600 mhz) ram without any overclocking. See this link and compare. I am using the gigabyte board in the compare list but i did not buy it from that site though.

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