graphic card recomendation

[jimmyd]

any suggestions, i have a NVDIA Quadro2 EX 32, need to upgrade

[Hipcheck]

stay with nVidia and get as much as you can afford

[dgon64]

Ditto! Nice avatar hipcheck-wish they played as good as they looked.

[Fredux]

I got Ati Radeon X800 XL works good.

[jimmyd]

at home i have GeForceFX5200 128mb

[AbnRanger]

Unless money is no obstacle, I would go to a gaming card due to the fact that, in many cases, they outperform their workstation counterparts and are MUCH cheaper. Plus, gaming cards top model usually hit the market months before their workstation siblings do.
At this moment, ATI's X1900XT is the fastest thing going, and is surprisingly cheaper than what they normally go for.
I have an ATI X800XT platinum edition, and it rocks....and yes even OpenGL2...rocks. You can't go wrong with either the Nvidia 7800GTX or ATI X1900XT.

[Sande]

Like said before, fastest gaming card you can afford is a safe bet, even safer if you choose Nvidia. Although they have made some progress, I still wouldn't recommend ATI for OpenGL-applications (and I am using ATI's X800XL at home).

[jimmyd]

Nvidia 7800GTX was 1 i was looking at,also i have a compaq computer at work with 1 gig of ram

[mattclary]

See the other thread asking about "which of three video cards" near this one.

Stick with an nVidia gaming card.

[jimmyd]

thanks for all the input

[MarkG]

On this subject, is anyone running Lightwave with a Geforce 7800GS card? It looks like it should be about three times faster than my current card in graphics-hungry games, but I've no idea how well it handles non-game applications like Lightwave.

Don't want to switch to PCI-Express as I'd have to replace pretty much my entire PC and I'm intending to do that in about eighteen months anyway.

[mattclary]

You won't see a big difference in LW. LW uses the CPU to process manipulation of geometry, the video card does very little of the heavy lifting.

Hopefully that will change in 9.

[jimmyd]

would GeForce 6800 ultra be ok for a new card

[RedBull]

Yeah i just bought a Leadtek 6800GS Extreme....
No problems on an X2 running XP and LW64 and LW32.

The ATI X800's are faster in D3D, but in OGL the Nvidia is a better card.
It was fairly cheap and fast, and will be outdated and replaced so fast,
i'd prefer to buy one of them, than a way over priced 7800GTX.....

[Stooch]

Like said before, fastest gaming card you can afford is a safe bet, even safer if you choose Nvidia. Although they have made some progress, I still wouldn't recommend ATI for OpenGL-applications (and I am using ATI's X800XL at home).

my radeon works awesome with all 3D tools and is passively cooled so i dont have to put up with a racket.

[jimmyd]

I went ATIRADEON9550, 256MB DDR Memory

[fasang]

Hi there...

I do know what there is need to know about software.... bud hardware; thats not my thing.
The problem is i'm puting a new compu togehter (so don't have any graph cart laying arround) .

http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstation/3dws/products/mill_pseries/millennium_p650_pcie.cfm
is this one anny good ore are there anny other good recemendations (not above 300-USD i'm a student..)

Love,
fasang

[mattclary]

http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstation/3dws/products/mill_pseries/millennium_p650_pcie.cfm
is this one anny good ore are there anny other good recemendations (not above 300-USD i'm a student..)


Matrox cards are not that great for OpenGL. Unless you have some special need that the Matrox card fufills, take the advice given above (unlike the guy who strated thie thread), and get a consumer level nVidia card.

Now go buy your Matrox card, I'm sure you have your heart set on that. :rolleyes:

[jimmyd]

I have just purchased the ATI RADEON 9550 256mb DDR memory

[mattclary]

I have just purchased the ATI RADEON 9550 256mb DDR memory

Yeah, I saw that in your last post. That's why I said, "take the advice given above, unlike the guy who started this thread". ;)

[fasang]

Heheheh,

Yhx for the advice... you agree with others sorces and helpt me make my decision eheheh~~ no matrox for me ehheeh~~

i'll be doïng some more searching and come back in wa short while to ask if the next cart i fount somhow fits the discription ^^

(i told you guy's eheheh i'm a reall noob in hardware)

Thx a lot and cu soon


(in the meantime you can take a look at http://www.sitework.be/sven/kettingzaag.mov ehhehe some schoolproject... if this is againt regulations i'll remove it)

Love
fasang

[Qslugs]

I have a 7800 GT on my LW machine. I replaced a ati x800xt board that was having display issues with LW.