Nice. I'm drafting on a Radeon 2400XT. Maybe I can convince my boss I need a 380LP, so that my computer won't chug as hard on a 30 MB county map.
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You can get an FX580 for nearly the same price. It's just not low profile.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...quadro%20fx580
The regular 380 is even cheaper, although I wouldn't really recommend such a low end card personally if you do any kind of 3D...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133274
The 580 is sufficient for most 3D CAD related tasks.
Maya on the other hand is a completely different beast.
Originally Posted by MrDeodorant Nice. I'm drafting on a Radeon 2400XT. Maybe I can convince my boss I need a 380LP, so that my computer won't chug as hard on a 30 MB county map. |
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...quadro%20fx580
The regular 380 is even cheaper, although I wouldn't really recommend such a low end card personally if you do any kind of 3D...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133274
The 580 is sufficient for most 3D CAD related tasks.
Maya on the other hand is a completely different beast.
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Sadly, I'm drafting on a crappy fireGL.
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Too bad I can't bring something from home or pick hardware for my work.
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Get a card with more memory?
Low end cards that have a crapload of memory are very common.
Originally Posted by MrDeodorant Every day I'm on my drafting computer (q6600 + Radeon 2400XT) is a day I'm not on my other computer, a 1.7GHz Pentium 4 with 768MB of RAM and about 300MB of free space on the hard drive. I don't take it for granted, I just get frustrated when AutoCAD tells me it has 'run out of memory' and dies. Like when I need to delete 1 million+ property lines and forget to do it in little batches. That's not the video card's fault, but I could make this machine sing and dance if I could use hardware from home. |
Low end cards that have a crapload of memory are very common.
Two is nice, but we all actually wish for three, so that we could have one for AutoCAD, one for Properties and Layers, and one for Outlook/Adobe.
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It has 512 MB. I wouldn't mind the faster memory on the new cards, but that's not exactly a lightweight (in that one, single respect).
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Originally Posted by sLowEnd Get a card with more memory? Low end cards that have a crapload of memory are very common. |
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It's not a video card memory issue usually, it's either system memory or the fact that it's a 32bit application.
I use UGS NX daily and I regularly push 1-2gb memory usage per instance of NX, while running 2-3 instances at a time at minimum. Most of my memory issues deal with the fact that we're still using 32-bit XP, can't wait to move onto 64-bit Windows 7 with Core i7 workstations in a few months.
Originally Posted by sLowEnd Get a card with more memory? Low end cards that have a crapload of memory are very common. |
I use UGS NX daily and I regularly push 1-2gb memory usage per instance of NX, while running 2-3 instances at a time at minimum. Most of my memory issues deal with the fact that we're still using 32-bit XP, can't wait to move onto 64-bit Windows 7 with Core i7 workstations in a few months.
i got a V8700 for sale in the for sale thread if u guys are interesdted
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Don't bother with a quadro if you are using AutoCAD. Like a lot of autodesk products it runs under DirectX so will see little benefit from using a workstation card over a gaming card. Indeed a good gaming card will walk all over the low end quadros. Maya & Revit are different as they still use OpenGL as their primary graphics API and thus benefit from the quadro cards more
Originally Posted by MrDeodorant Nice. I'm drafting on a Radeon 2400XT. Maybe I can convince my boss I need a 380LP, so that my computer won't chug as hard on a 30 MB county map. |
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