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Gawd
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Hello everyone, just a question.

I was wondering if anyone had any experience loading dual videocards / hardware profiles.

I'm building a new rig because my 9800 pro is going the way of the dinosaur and have a wide variety of needs.

I need gaming awesomeness, with large res support(8800 GTS 620, possibly a GTX if I can save the l3wt).

I also am going to need a Quadro, for design renderings from Cad and Autodesk, other design programs.

I'm thinking of a single Dell 24" as opposed to 2x21" Dell's and I'd like to put both these cards in my system and setup 2 hardware profiles.

I'm wondering if the Nvidia drivers in Windows XP get squirrelly if you have seperate profiles, or if anyone has any experience/advice working in this particular realm of system. Thanks in advance.
 
with the dough u are gonna spend on a Quadro u can buy a Geforce 8800GTX SLI rig with a watercooler solution, it is just way to expensive and it not THAT good, u might wanna try a nice ATI FIRE GL, that is the best bang for the buck for CAD right now
 
So, would you say running an SLI system would satisfy speedy rendering/draw time needs?

As opposed to having a seperate card like a FireGL or Quadro?
 
My understanding was that the Quadro/FireGL type cards were not differentiated on speed, but on the fact that the drivers enforce major levels of precision. CAD/CAM can get very complicated, and standard video game rendering "short cuts" compromise the accuracy of representative renderings of parts from a CAD/CAM package.

I will say that is just what I remembered from shortly after the introduction of the Quadro series, when one of the major sites (possibly this one) took one apart and called nVidia to account for the fact that you need to pay so much more for essentially the same board. Their response was along the lines of what it costs them to maintain drivers for the issue in my first paragraph.

Based on feature lists for Quadro boards in reviews I just found with google, I believe the accurracy is the main selling point to the CAD/CAM market for the Quadro series.
 
So, would you say running an SLI system would satisfy speedy rendering/draw time needs?
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no, i´m saying that a 8800 GTX SLI would cost less that the new Quadro.

In CAD applications such as Autodesk Inventor or Solidworks having a "gaming vid card" would not be that great, cuz several features that are "on" in the Quadro vid cards are "off" in the GeForce.

the Quadros are way too expensive, an ATI Fire GL, would not cost THAT much and it would give you good performance in CAD.

Remember that both CAD cards from ATI or nVIDIA are not for gaming.
 
leSLIe said:
no, i´m saying that a 8800 GTX SLI would cost less that the new Quadro.

In CAD applications such as Autodesk Inventor or Solidworks having a "gaming vid card" would not be that great, cuz several features that are "on" in the Quadro vid cards are "off" in the GeForce.

the Quadros are way too expensive, an ATI Fire GL, would not cost THAT much and it would give you good performance in CAD.

Remember that both CAD cards from ATI or nVIDIA are not for gaming.
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Thanks, I'm always dreaming perhaps that DirectX and Vista will force design tools down a road that OpenGL is no longer the dominant force, and 1 card can be utilized for both purposes...

I mean, wtf why can't an 8800GTX handle EVERYTHING? It's a powerful device....

but I appreciate the info on the FireGL I'll be getting one of those instead. The quadros are looking pretty damned expensive.
 
well the 8800GTX can do all that stuff if nVIDIA wants it to, but they don´t want to. The Quadro is basically a Geforce that has some features off, that way nVIDIA is forcing companies to PAY a lot of money for the Quadro, so it is just marketing, if they can squeeze more money out of the consumer, in this case companies that can afford it, they will.
 
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