Re: Nvidia Quadro vs. GEForce

["Ben Holland" <user=122@nabble.blu.org>]

 As someone who at work actually uses Nvidia Quatro 1.5GB graphics cards... 
they are about $5k and are used to render anything literally we want at 
1920x1080 with 16x antialiasing at 60fps. We actually throttle our card in 
software. People do not need this unless you are doing work like I am. This 
card is even over kill for gaming. At home almost everyone here has a 8500 
with 256MB. It's not bad, it's not grand but it's not bad. Honestly though 
if you are not gaming you can get a really low end card that just has dual 
DVI outputs. Shop on price not quality, and i've always used nvidia but ati 
work just as well for stuff you are looking for. 

On a side note I am actually looking at stepping away from comp gaming into 
like the PS3's and xbox360 for a wide variety of reasons. ~Ben 

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Jarod Wilson <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 11:43 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> > I'm currently specing out a new desktop system for home. I'm not 
> > planning on a gaming or a cad system, but I do want a decent 3d 
> > graphics card. At this point, I'm looking only at NVidia, but I'm not 
> > excluding ATI or Intel. 
> > 
> > Some of the Quadros have 128-bit floating point, but I may not need 
> > that precision. What I do want is the ability to support some of the 
> > newer widescreen or HD monitors. While I have not done any real gaming 
> > in the past, I am bored with lack of 3d support on my current system, 
> > and I will be upgrading to a 64-bit dual or quad core system. 
> > 
> > The bottom line is that the GEForce is the consumer series where Quadro 
> > is the workstation or professional series. The GEForce I am looking at 
> > is the 8400GS 256MB. I think this card should meet my needs and the 
> > Quadro is probably an overkill. 
> 
> If you're not a hard-core gamer or doing high-end 3D workstation type 
> stuff (or running Vista), I think just about any recent nVidia or ATI 
> card is overkill these days. Hell, my 3-year-old+ 256M nVidia GeForce 
> 6600GT can handle a pair of high-resolution widescreen dual-link 
> displays just fine. Well, okay, I haven't actually tested a pair of 
> dual-link displays, but the hardware claims to support it. No troubles 
> pushing a pair of 1680x1050 widescreens though. 
> 
> 
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