rubynet Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 hello, im am doing some architectural presentations for a living, im about to build a new system (LGA 775 Pentium 64 bit with 2GB mem and a good Gigabyte MB 945 chipset) im am breaking my head on what to buy as my 3d Accelerator. a quadro proffesional card (considering the FX 1300) or maybe go for a good 6800 geforce card (the ultra version?) im really in the dark here, im using sketchup, lightscape and artlantis for my work and some photoshop and 2d drafting apps. what is the best card for me? in what do i benefit from a this expensive proffesional card? (the quadro) , ill be happy to get some answers from pepole who know this stuff , and sorry for may non-native bad english. RUby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihabkal Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Quaddro for cad, Geforce for games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isagreg Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Get Quadro FX 1400, it's newer than 1300. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotrod Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Get g6800 den convert it to softquadro 4000 , Work hard & Play hard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kris Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Yes, modify geforce6800 to quadro 4000. Its very easy, I did it. You have to download RivaTuner from http://www.3dguru.com and folow instructions. You can find instruction somewhere on 3dguru forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbr Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Depends on how much money you want to spend. I don't think you get a good value with the Quadros. I have not noticed a difference between my Quadro 1400, Quadro 700gxl, or the Geforce 5900 Ultra. There may be slight differences, but overall nothing really noticeable. The only reason I bought the Quadro 1400 was because Dell essentially gave it to me (although having dual DVI outputs is nice). Could make a difference with your software, but Max's opengl performance is so pathetic, it just flickers and blinks regardless of the card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihabkal Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 seriously guys, I hav a geforce 6800 OC, and a Quaddro 1400, and the Quaddro is better for cad work, is more stable, and consumes less power, which is essential for power hungry dual machines with 2-3 hard drives, 2 optical drives, 2 GB Ram or more that cad users have. Geforce series is so power hungry it's a disaster waiting to happen...anyone for crispy pc? in any case do what you want but don't come back crying when you fry your power supply...Geforce 6800 requires Two power cables inserted in addition to the motherboard connection. what the!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kris Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 Even if you modify geforce to quadro and there is not gain in speed there is one plus becouse if you are user of 3dsMax you can install maxtreme drivers to Quadro and it byselve adds 70% to speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambros Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 ATI FIRE GL. 5100 costs as much as a Gforce 6800GT 7100 is 200€ more and is the high end model. How much does a Quadro 4000 cost? enough said... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kris Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 Check it out. http://uk.shopping.com/xPC-PNY_PN_yuml_Technologies_QUADRO_FX_4000_256MB_AGP_8x_DI_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwhite Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 I haven't been very impressed with the Quadro 1300 for SketchUp modeling. I did install version 5 last nite and things seemed to be ALOT better even with shadows on. So perhaps that will make a difference now. Good luck - do your research and spend your money wisely as I have yet to find the magic bullet for putting a system together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 I've got a quadro 1100 and am thinking of moving to the 1400 with my new system, can anyone tell me it there is a difference in performance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbr Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 ihab - kind a funny, I just replaced my power supply on my new workstation, and it's got a 1400. I honestly can't tell you what is good about the Quadro 1400. Perhaps I am not doing things that would show a performance gain, or perhaps it's just that Max sucks sooooo bad when moving objects around in a high poly scene...don't know. I haven't used it for too long, so maybe things will change. I do have the maxtreme drivers installed, bty. (I still can't understand how Max gets silly 'new' things, but still can't work as good as programs costing half as much with moving wireframe objects around). Personally, next time around, unless I get the same deal as last time (where Dell almost tossed it in for free, as I wanted dual dvi but the cheaper cards didn't have it), I'll be looking for a mid range geforce and putting the savings into faster somethings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 ihab - kind a funny, I just replaced my power supply on my new workstation, and it's got a 1400. What kind of power supply is it? I need one like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcampbell Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 I recently went with a Geforce 6600 GT and I am very impressed with its performance - especially in DX9. OpenGL can start to stutter where DX9 doesn't so yeah - save yourself a fortune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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