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[Rendermedia]

Hi all,

 

Seem like a lot of people are recommending the 8800 GT or GTX,

 

I am currently using a Dual Xeon workstation however I am now going to take one of my Quadcore Render nodes and turn this into my workstation, the downside is my Dell precision is running an AGP Quadro card and my Quadcore only accepts PCIE,

 

I am currently using Max extreme drivers for the occasional zmapped model of town’s etc running on Max9,

 

My question is this I have approx £300 to spend on a graphics card for the quad machine seeing I cannot use my AGP one from my Dual Xeon if I were to opt for the 8800GT are there any drivers similar to Maxextreme that would allow me to comfortably look at large datasets in Max9.

 

Kind Regards

Mark

[AJLynn]

Back up. Your Dell is a Xeon with AGP - which means it's old, it's not a Core2 architecture CPU but a Netburst. Your quad core is much, much faster.

 

Whatever type of Quadro card you have, it's old enough to be AGP so an 8800 is also much, much faster, without needing Maxtreme. This and your CPU together will beat your expectations, allowing you to spend the rest of the budget on beer. Just run it in Direct3D mode.

[Rendermedia]

Hi AJ

 

Many thnaks for getting back, yes the Dual Xeon was an old Captain Scarlet CGI workstation, so quite old now.

 

Cheers for the info on the Maxextreme, just a thought my Quadcore is only PCIE not PCIE2 is there any particular PCIE 8800 you could recomend from experience

 

Kind Regards

Mark

[AJLynn]

There's a PCIE2? Anyway. It doesn't matter much which 8800 you get, they're all fast, just use whatever the British equivalent of Newegg.com is and find what's on sale, or something like an 8800GT from XFX.