<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi </span><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sebastian,</span></font></div><div><br><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></font></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></b></font><div id="yiv1947870195"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div
style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>Thank you </span>Sebastian for your helpful questions and Brecht for your helpful replies!</font></div><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>> Thank you as well for your work</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2">Thank you also Brecht for your advice about using an older graphics card for display. <br></font></div><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2">I followed your advice about 4 weeks
ago, what a liberating experience!</font></div><div style="
font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2">Now using an 9600GT for display and a GTX 460 for Cycles. <br></font></div><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2">No more Operating System slowdowns while rendering, able to use the computer as if nothing was happening.</font></div><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2">Recommend this to anyone who <span style="font-style:italic;">(isn't a gamer)</span> has an older NVIDIA GPU and two graphic card slots, <br></font></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>> lol, why (isn't a gamer), just wondering</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica,
sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2">or possibly even try Onboard GPU for your OS and dedicated GPU card for Cycles.<br></font></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">
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</span></font><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2">David</font></div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">I mentioned not a gamer because, the older graphics card is now providing the display, </span><br style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">there is no monitor connection to the most powerful CUDA graphics card, </span><span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br><span style="font-style: italic;">unless someone has two monitors and doesn't mind the secondary display from the powerful graphics card slowing down during CUDA rendering</span>.<br></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">So </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family:
verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">(depending on the older graphics cards architecture)</span><span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"> things like Direct X 11 might not be available, </span><br style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">there may not be as much display memory, or there may not be enough raw GPU power for modern 3D gaming.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">The powerful graphics card now handles just the CUDA computations, </span><br style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">possibly easiest to understand if it is consider it more like another CPU within a computer, rather than a GPU. </span><br style="font-family:
verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"></font></div></div><font size="2"><br style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hope this makes sense and helps explain!</span><br style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">David</span></font><span class="tab"></span><span class="tab"><br></span></div></div></div></body></html>