adrihalut Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 is it possible that the quadro card which costs 1/5th of the most advanced in its line is preferable for me over the best of the geforce series card? i am looking to build a computer. the salesman i was about to order from stopped me from getting a geforce 7900gt card and told me i need a quadro card (i work 99% of the time with arch desktop 3.3 but wish to design my new computer also for 3d studio max and revit). this was confirmed with autocad and max websites, revit don't specifically rule out the geforce (from what i found) problem is, for the $300 you pay (and this is all i got to pay) for the best geforce card out there, you can only get the lowest of quadro cards. in specs, the quadro will be inferior to the geforce in amount of memory, memory type, pipelines..... so, do i realy get the Quadro FX540 over the geforce 7900gt? p.s. and if so, should i still be looking at the DFI Lanparty nforce4 ultra MB? so far i got athlon 4200 x2 and 2 gigs corsair SMX thanks. ilan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 Get the Geforce. Quado is recommended for Max, but not required. It gives you an advantage, but the 7900 is spec'ed so much higher than the 540 it's definitely going to be faster. Same for ADT and Revit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrihalut Posted June 1, 2006 Author Share Posted June 1, 2006 ok, thanks. and what if i were to consider the quadro fx700 or fx1300 (both for some reason priced similarly) rather than FX540, would the geforce still be the better choice? ilan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 The line starts to blur, each line is good at different things. Most people looking for something for serious Max work go with a Quadro 1400 or more, but if you do more work in ADT than Max, or if your budget isn't huge, don't bother. The new Geforce cards are still quite good, especially in DirectX mode. Later on if you want more power you can find a high-end card by shopping around for a lower price than you'll get from most PC vendors. I did this late last fall, and ended up with a FireGL v5100 (ATI's version of a professional card) new on Ebay for less than half what stores and web sites were asking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrihalut Posted June 1, 2006 Author Share Posted June 1, 2006 the line got blurry for me a few times along the way. i guess i'll go with geforce7900gt and DFI Lanparty Nforce4 Ultra. Thank You. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulctrla Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 I run an NVIDIA QUADRO 980XGL and it great in Max - runs Maxtreme the works... It wont play any new games and its a few years old now. Not the greatest graphics card if your not just using Viz software. It runs applications well - 3D is strong and i get decent viewport feedback. The main thing you may find is that the quadro cards like mine are terrible for games - but as i dont play any - it doesnt bother me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffc Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 I recently had the same dilemma, and went with the 7800 gs oc, which is agp so I wouldn't have to upgrade the entire mobo/cpu system. Works very well for Acad 07, Viz 07 and vray. Plus, being my home puter, once I'm hands down sick of architecture late at night, the 7800 works well shooting down the bad guy in BF2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gods418 Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 the geforce can be used with sli means u can add one more means its twice of graphics power probably much better than the quadro unless you can put 2 quadro in sli mode? i play bf2 also so i go with geforce 7900gt, im using geforce 6800gs with 512mb gddr3 in sli mode - i can revolve around the scene on an hdri background in real time in 3dsmax and i can play any available games out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 The testing I've seen has shown almost no benefit to SLI with 3DSMax. But for games, it's hard to beat. Newer Quadros do have an SLI connector but AFAIK it's not supported by any software yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gods418 Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 yes 3dsmax still not support sli but windows and almost all games supports sli, hope max supports sli because nvidia has already come up with quad sli, imagine 4 graphics card working in parallel..............i just went to computer shop here in singapore and im shocked to find the nvidia 7950 with 1gig gddr3 memory! this must be a lot better than quadro but i never ask the price i know its out of my range ill stick with my 6800gs for the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Don't be so sure - for most architecture work the 1 gig isn't going to come into play, it's going to be about how fast your card can process OpenGL. I'd bet good money a Geforce with 1 gig is not faster than a decent Quadro card in Max. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Knourek Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 I recently started a new Job with a local oil drilling company and the workstation they got me has a dual xeon 3.4ghz with a Quadro FX1400 and lets just say I realy realy want my AMD 4400+ dual core with my 7800 GTX. for the money they paid this FX 1400 sucks A$$. -dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gods418 Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 hey dave what are you doing with that rig of yours in the oil rig? you wont be doing 3d modeling and animation in there will you? just curious..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Knourek Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 Yea Im doing alot of drilling simulations and the like, downhole and surface... -dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnuhong Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 I am using Quadro FX540 and very happy with it so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quique Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 Perhaps no useful info here, just comments: I'm using a Geforce 6800GT w/256 MB Ram. I used a program (search web for RivaTuner) to 'trick' the computer to identifying it as a Quadro 4000 so that I could then install the Maxtreme drivers. I found the Maxtreme drivers to be a lot more useful for me than DirectX/OpenGL. Although I've read somewhere where others don't see a speed advantage. I may or may not get the advantage of all the pipelines that a Quadro 4000 has, but so far, I've noticed no corruption on screen. I'm sure this voids any warrranty,so if you want to play it safe, ignore this option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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