Graphic Card - urgent advice needed

[P.R.S. Sivakumar .]

Hello everybody

 

There is an offer here in my part of the country for a Nvidia Quadro FX 1500 card with Adobe CS2 Suite bundled along with it.

 

Will this card greatly improve the viewport performance in 3ds Max 9 and in AutoCAD 2007 or 2008?

 

I am not very particular about the bundled Adobe CS2.

 

I infer from some forum threads that the present higher end GeForce is as good for 3ds Max since Max is based on Direct X (and not Open GL).

 

I don't want to spend money unnecessarily. I am using Windows XP.

 

Please advise.

 

Thanks in advance

PRSS

[AJLynn]

A 1500 is a great card but getting old. A lot of newer Geforces wil perform better in Max9 and Autocad 08, but Autocad 07 doesn't have DirectX support so you might get better performance in nVidia Powerdraft for 07 on the 1500.

[P.R.S. Sivakumar .]

Thanks a lot for the quick reply.

 

Can you please suggest an optimum GeForce card for Max9 & Autocad 2008?

I do not want an overkill card.

[AJLynn]

Optimum? It's all just cost/benefit. I've got an 8800GTS and it's quite good.

[P.R.S. Sivakumar .]

Thanks once again.

[visual3d]

You have to decide what is more important to you...

Doing 2d grafics or working in 3d. Because most grafic card in the low end can do well for photoshop or cad...just need the correct driver for the card and addditional stuf for cad

 

on the other hand...if your projects are as big as an airport or township and need to move around the view quickly, the qudro family is the way to go. Because they also run on direct x apart from open gl.....

directx are better and faster in max 8 or nine especially combine with maxextreem driver from nvidia....do a test copy 40x 40x 40 sphere and try to rotate in a single max viewport...if any of your friend comp can do it...just go with the same card they are using....but mostly the computer will hang...if it dosent...go for the same card they use...you might be suprise that cheaper cards do well..

 

by the way it will take awhile for max to generate the ubes but wait...give it some time..

 

this is geforce 7300 le with 128 mb ram... 66 milion poly and it can still turn...just a bit jerky......hehehe...see attachment....max 9 64 bit

[P.R.S. Sivakumar .]

Do you mean to say 40x40x40 = 64000 (sixty four thousand spheres?).

 

What should be the diameter of the sphere - I'd like to test it.

[visual3d]

well diameter was 100, distance between about 200. and yes 40 x 40 x40 =64000 sphere...segments for sphere should be 32

 

but my test was 41 x 41 x 41

[visual3d]

try getting the old 7900 or 7950 from ebay...the fastest available, good enough for any 3d project. but get cards with more than 128 ram.

[neil poppleton]

FX 1500 ,is installed on a few 3d workstations in the office, whom use AutoCad, Viz, pshop etc etcetcet and would say a stable good card to purchase.

[P.R.S. Sivakumar .]

Thank you very much. I can now conclude and take a decision.

 

With best regards

PRSS