Anyone using 3dsmax and Nvidia GTX 4XX?

[johan21]

Hi all

 

I'm in the process of trying to work out the components for an upgrade, and would like to get a GTX 470 or 480. However I have googled various reports of users of 3dsmax 2009,2010 and 2011 having unacceptably low viewport performance of constantly

 

Some of these users seem to have tried a number of different drivers - occasionally with success but often not.

 

However a report on cgarchitect seems to have produced benchmarks that show that the GTX 480 at least has been demonstrated to work well with 3dsmax 2010, and 2011 which I use. It doesn't mention which driver version was used in the tests.

 

http://www.cgarchitect.com/news/newsfeed.asp?nid=4960

 

I guess I wanted to post to find out if anyone here has experience with a gtx 4xx card in 3dsmax. Have you had problems? Did you give up on the card or did a driver fix it? Are you using the latest drivers and do they work or have you had to stick with a particular driver? I'm suppose I'm trying to find out whether issues with 3dsmax and these cards were just an anomaly that has been resolved in a later driver update or whether there is still a problem?

 

Thanks

Johan

[Sketchrender]

I have both, 470 &480 on the the latest max too.

I down loaded the latest drivers and don't have any problem with them at all.

The 480 humms a little louder , but i have them in two Dell precision 690 , which are hugh machines , the biggest i have ever had and there is lots of air space around them.

 

The drivers have been updated again recently.

 

phil

[shy]

The reviews for the new 580 seem to suggest an improvement over the 4xx series. I have one on order, but it's taking a while to land down under!

[AJLynn]

It's true, the 480 always suffered from power leakage and other architectural issues, which is why they never made a version with all 512 shader cores turned on and it ran quite hot when doing CUDA processing. The 580 is said to fix a lot of this. Not that it's low power - they just used the power savings to add more speed. Of course, it's more expensive, and with what's going on with the prices if you don't have CUDA needs the 460 and 470 are very compelling.

[johan21]

Thanks for the responses, everyone.

 

Philip, regarding the below, can you confirm you're runnning the Dell Precision 690's with Windows Vista? Have you tried Windows 7?

 

I'm at the point of trying to get as much info on system specs for machines that work and machines that don't.

 

I have both, 470 &480 on the the latest max too.

I down loaded the latest drivers and don't have any problem with them at all.

The 480 humms a little louder , but i have them in two Dell precision 690 , which are hugh machines , the biggest i have ever had and there is lots of air space around them.

 

The drivers have been updated again recently.

 

phil

[Sketchrender]

Johan

 

I am running Windows XP 64 bit on a Dell Precision 690 4GB ram, max and vray.

All runs fine so i am not changing anything till I really have too.

 

Phil