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Doesn't look like anybody else is wanting in so I'll call it tomorrow is that ok with everyone?
It is always nice to see someone engage in such a generous act. Gives me hope for humanity. Thank you for your generousity.
Sure. Thanks! And I thank you again, regardless.
There is always hope. I know of a lot Techies who do this.
Low And Max wattage my card ran at doing a stress With 3DMark Time Spy Stress test.
Forgot about low and max load.
Speaking of high & low voltages, a couple of weeks ago the insurance company I have my dwelling insurance through said they will give me a free "Ting" (Whisker Labs) device that I plug into my regular wallsocket and then connect to my WiFi network. The Ting device monitors my dwelling electrical circuits and watches for errors that might cause electrical fires. So far, less than 2 weeks, there have been no warnings. Best of all I didn't have to or will I have to pay anything for the Ting device or their monitoring of my electrical circuits. I suppose my insurance company got some sort of bulk discount rate for all of the people that use this Ting service via their offer and the insurance company saves money via fewer burnt down homes. So try it if your insurance company offers similar.
Wow! AgitatedRiot that is so kind of you! The people in the Daz community are just awesome and you are proving that right now.
Wow, an open box GIGABYTE - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GAMING OC 12GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card at the Best Buy closest to me. Because it's open box it goes for $479.99 - $96.00 open box discount + $23.04 taxes = $407.03. No shipping though. I'm broke now and by the time I get the money that card will be gone but I just chatted with a Best Buy worker and for your others that have been trying to get an nVidia RTX card he said it's as simple as:
a) Install the Best Buy app on your smart phone, allow notices, create a Best Buy account & log in.
b) Shop for the GEForce RTX cards you are interest in. Most likely they will be all Sold Out. Now for the ones interested in "Save" them in the app.
c) He said then the Best Buy app will notify you on your smart phone when the "Save" RTX cards come in stock.
d) When in stock, buy it & then drive to pick it up.
You'll have to wait 3 - ?? minutes when you put it in your cart initially but it won't actually put it in your cart. When the shopping cart timer ends, click to put it in your cart again and it will go into your cart the 2nd time.
Also: be on the lookout for Open Box GEForce RTX cards. Open Boxes don't happen frequently but maybe people don't like to buy them and so they stay available longer when they are available. It's a big blue button that says "Shop Open-Box".
So glad to figure that out in case I don't win the drawing. As I've read of many people complaining about a legitimate way to buy a GEForce RTX card at MSRP I thought I should pass this on to you all. You have to be prepared to drive & pick the card you buy though at the nearest Best Buy. Different Best Buys will have different cards and different, if any, open box cards to buy.
And the winner is
PM me your address so I can get shipped to you
congratulations dartenbeck
I did install the BestBuy app on my smartphone so I can get noitified when they get RTX stock at MSRP. Truth be told, until I finish intensive training of myself to do a good job at keyframe animation in Blender, and I won't be so trained at least until March 2022, me owning an RTX is a waste of money. So have fun dartenbeck.
Don't give up. I have feeling that this isn't my last card to donate. Nvidia is about to release the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 series cards next year. then prices of the older cards will drop.
That's awesome! Congratulations, Dartanbeck!
Awww, thank you!!! And thanks for the Congrats!
What a thing to come home to!!!
I just told my Ryzen, and we decided to celebrate tonight as well as to have a pary with the card when it arrives! My RAM, SSD and PSU all agreed, so we're on!
I tried to tell OctaneRender, but he's busy rendering so I'll have to wait until I won't be interrupting to get him to join in.
Wow. AgitatedRiot, I cannot thank you enough!!! Thank You!!!
You are Amazing!!! Truly... from the bottom of my heart:
Thank You!!!
I am happy too, will be lots of Rosie and Dart iray renders coming
Congrats Dartanbeck ... enjoy that!
Not something you see everyday on the internets, cheers for such a generous initiative. And congrats to the winner.
I'm not giving up, no, I didn't mean to sound like I did. I've decided after evaluating the video card market that is makes more sense for me to save my money and buy a new laptop between November 2021 - January 2022. I've compared them and the laptops with RTX 3060 are at a reasonable price I think. I don't need the fastest RTX, just the RTX capabilities that at any speed that allow me to use nVidia Omniverse software or at least see how helpful that Omniverse software is.
My render is still running by the way and the drawing is over, but I had to restart it as I've found the old 3DL way of doing rain & fog with old planar geometry with translucent images applied does not mix well at all with iRay volumetrics. Instead I turned on the new DAZ Studio feature Matte Fog and it looks like I'll get to let the render finally finish all 5000 iterations.
There are some things that simply don't render in OctaneRender, like this strand-based hair.
When I tried in Iray, no matter how long I let it cook, there were always a whole bunch of fireflies left behind. So I kept that one as a base plate backdrop, then rendered the beast and the beauty separately and brought it all together in Affinity Photo. I've been noticing that most of these "Amazing" renders we see are actually highly worked over afterward in PS or the like.
Even with better GPUs, we still always have to think and work outside the box to get our visions to turn out.
Chip shortages are affecting prices at this point. Hold off sounds Like a good idea.
Yes. The specific model laptop I have my eyes on actually was grossly overpriced until recently. Will the pricing and supply I saw this week for that specific laptop hold out until I have enough money saved around Thanksgiving? Who knows, but at least I'll have the cash on hand to get a same or better equipped laptop at a fair price then. Getting the laptop then at a fair price I can hunker down and wait out the pricing on the PC Desktop video cards, which might take past 2022 too, which is just way too unreasonable.
I know you know this already, but just to put it out there: A laptop will never stand up to a tower when it comes to full time CG work. They just don't cut it.
They make really nice ones that are great for doing such work when one is on the move, but if you're having high render times, the poor little laptop without the luxury of internal air movement will quickly begin to decay.
My first CG computer was a laptop, and it performed admirably. Gurus of CG enlightened me to the fact that I'd get a lot better performance from PC-grade hardware over that made for laptop - and they were absolutely correct on that front.
Again... I'm sure you're already aware of these things - When things come around for me, and I can invest in a new laptop, I was looking at some of those HP Omen, with the added airflow room and interchange-ability of components... and their half-way decent price point.
If you want a laptop you might well as buy an external GPU. for the heavy lifting of rendering.
Edit:12 Best External Graphics Card For Laptop (eGPU) 2021 - GamersLens
Yummy device arrives at its new home tomorrow!!! :)
I can't thank you enough!!!
Thank You!
Do a render dedicated to the benefactor.
I've seen the Omen and I've really liked the quality of HP laptops (I've had 2 used and 1 new since 2015) I've had over the years but I'm buying a Gigabyte laptop in this special use case.
For my purposes, it's like my car will go over 120 MPH but I never drive it over the speed limit anywhere anyway, so a modern laptop will stand up to a tower quite nicely, especially since the value added part I will be adding (if I am successful) is in the labor it takes to learn & do my own unique keyframe animations. If I can't do that, I really have nothing which with to create original games or animations so I'd be done for anyway. That might up being the case, but I'm trying otherwise.
When it comes does to rendering the product even with a Quadro 6000 and 48GB of RAM I'm almost certain I will NOT to be rendering via iRay, Cycles, or similar renderer as I'm pretty certain I'll need to ability to create more dramatic lighting and FX than those can do, being 100% natural world based lighting. I also know that what I render as an animation needs to look nearly the same as if it was being playing in a realtime game render engine. So my renders will be "dumbed" down. For my occasion DAZ renders an RTX 3060 laptop is way more than enough.
Epic Debate: Laptop vs Desktop PC.
Laptop vs desktop for gaming
Winner: Desktop
A gaming rig. is another genre of computing that requires overclocked speeds and supreme processing power.
Desktop gaming rigs allow gamers to utilize larger monitor displays than laptops can offer. When it comes to RAM, storage, graphics, and CPU, a gaming rig easily outperforms a gaming laptop.
Settling the Epic Debate: Laptop vs Desktop PC | HP® Tech Takes
Oh, yeah. They've done reaction time testing with game I/O controllers and the good desktops win. I'm going to be upgrading my desktop too, but when the prices are more reasonable.
They left out, or missed, that laptops have easier and higher resale value than desktop PCs but even so, laptops take a drastic cut in value as soon as they are bought. My new one, well now 1 year old so not new, HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop year 2020, is being auctioned as I speak for $650, less than 1/2 it's value last June. It's well worth it though, for the eventual buyer, and for me, because I will get 1/3 of the funds I need for the RTX 3060 laptop I want, and they will, lacking a specific need for RTX hardware, get a laptop that has at least 5 or more productive years in it before software bloat claims more hardware casualties. Video cards and my interest in 3D software means the buyer of my current laptop will probably have it long after I felt I should upgrade again (but that is in nVidia's and AMD's court maybe their advances will not be so great in the next few years?)
Already part of the plan, my friend!