Lucidguy_3000
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Ok, heres the deal...
I use sketchup ALL the time. Im a Landscape Architecture student and use it for almost all of my projects. That being said, here's my dilema.
I recently bought a Lenovo T61p with a 256mb Quadro card. It runs sketchup fantastically fast. After noticing this performance gain, I decided it was time to upgrade the graphical power of my desktop. So, i went out and got myself two Visiontek 3870s and have them running in Crossfire. Now, both the laptop and the desktop are Core2Duo 2.4Ghz with 2GB of ram, but the laptop, even with the 256mb card, runs sketchup faster.
As some of you may know, Sketchup is an OpenGL based program. My thoughts at the moment is that ATI has cut some OpenGL support out as almost no game uses it anymore, while the quadro keeps full OpenGL support, hence the performance gain.
So heres the question... the 3870's say they have OpenGL 2.0 support, but do they really? And, if I were to return these 3870's, would a FireGL or Quadro card have supperior performance over the 3870s?
Lastly, what to buy? I have an operating budget up to 700 dollars, FireGL or Quadro?
thanks so much for the input. I realize that most people on here will vote for just keeping the 3870s as they are the best gaming option, but the performance is terrible, just barely superior to setting sketchup to software rendering mode.
Thanks again
I use sketchup ALL the time. Im a Landscape Architecture student and use it for almost all of my projects. That being said, here's my dilema.
I recently bought a Lenovo T61p with a 256mb Quadro card. It runs sketchup fantastically fast. After noticing this performance gain, I decided it was time to upgrade the graphical power of my desktop. So, i went out and got myself two Visiontek 3870s and have them running in Crossfire. Now, both the laptop and the desktop are Core2Duo 2.4Ghz with 2GB of ram, but the laptop, even with the 256mb card, runs sketchup faster.
As some of you may know, Sketchup is an OpenGL based program. My thoughts at the moment is that ATI has cut some OpenGL support out as almost no game uses it anymore, while the quadro keeps full OpenGL support, hence the performance gain.
So heres the question... the 3870's say they have OpenGL 2.0 support, but do they really? And, if I were to return these 3870's, would a FireGL or Quadro card have supperior performance over the 3870s?
Lastly, what to buy? I have an operating budget up to 700 dollars, FireGL or Quadro?
thanks so much for the input. I realize that most people on here will vote for just keeping the 3870s as they are the best gaming option, but the performance is terrible, just barely superior to setting sketchup to software rendering mode.
Thanks again