Video Card Upgrade

[mikes8500]

I currently have a Quadro 2000 card that can't seem to handle some of my larger scenes. I'm looking at viewport performance only. What would be better, getting a second quadro 2000 (am I assuming correctly that a second card would improve viewport performance?) or should I replace the existing quadro 2000 with a 4000? on EBAY I can get another 2000 for around 200.00 and a 4000 for around 350.00

 

 

Thanks

[Dimitris Tolios]

I currently have a Quadro 2000 card that can't seem to handle some of my larger scenes. I'm looking at viewport performance only. What would be better, getting a second quadro 2000 (am I assuming correctly that a second card would improve viewport performance?) or should I replace the existing quadro 2000 with a 4000? on EBAY I can get another 2000 for around 200.00 and a 4000 for around 350.00

 

 

Thanks

 

"Second" or Third cards do nothing for viewport acceleration.

3DS, Maya and pretty much all CAD I know of doesn't utilize more than a single card - it being SLI paired with other cards make it irrelevant: SLI is utilized by games only.

Moreover, the Quadro 2000 doesn't even support SLI, so it is imposible to combine 2x 2000s anyways.

 

The Quadro 4000 is definitely an upgrade - around 50% faster than the 2000, and having double the size and more than double the speed of RAM.

 

Woot...we might be checking different ebay's - haven't seen a 4000 below $410 for months.

[paneli]

I got a Quadro 4000.

No improvement over the old Quadro FX1700 or even Quadro FX580 in 3ds max 2011.

 

I think the future is behind the geforce for 3ds max.

only problem i have no idea which model or what, the only thing i know that i am very disappointed with quadro.

(and yes im aware of 3ds max performance driver - maxtreme in case someone is wandering)