PNY Quadro FX 1800 VCQFX1800-PCIE-PB Workstation Video Card

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Installation was a breeze with windows 7 x64, drivers had been automatically detected and installed. Nvidia web page also has the drivers for windows 7 offered for download. This card, along with a core i7 and seagate 7200.12 harddrives is superior to my workstation machine running dual xeon processors (skt 771), a quadro FX 4500 gpu, and 15k RPM SAS harddrives. Solidworks 2009 x64 does not miss a beat even with full visualization on and genuine view graphics when opening a moderately complex assembly. This card is also 1Ǚ the price of the FX 4500 when it was new years ago. From each assessment on the web it appears as if the quadro cards have drivers better optimized for CAD systems such as solidworks when compared to the FireGL equivalents. FireGL cards appear to be stronger in programs such as Maya. People acquiring this card for the wrong applications then writing misleading critiques on newegg. Individuals comparing this card to gaming cards - apples to oranges. Even the most expensive gaming cards cannot compete with the openGL performance of the lower end workstation cards. Price. We built a computer specifically for solidworks 2009. Core i7 920, asus p6t deluxe, 3x 1TB 7200.12 seagate harddrives, 12gb G. Skill DDR3-1600 memory, corsair 750w power supply. Although windows 7 x64 is not officially supported by solidworks, 2009 appears to run very properly and handles significant assemblies well. Depending on the application, one could almost certainly get away with the significantly less costly quadro FX 580 and still have excellent performance inside solidworks. Workstation cards are high priced; developer expenses and support is what you pay for and its worth each and every penny. These cards do not sell at the identical volumes as gaming cards so naturally they are far more expensive.

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Newegg & Nvidia, of course.Installed without having problem into Dell Precision 390 with three GB and XP Pro. Screws on DVI port unscrewed when I removed the DVI. No biggie. It works! Hopefully the processor (e6300) will be the bottleneck now. I will update later after using for a couple of days. It will be utilised with AutoCAD & MicroStation and also Google SketchUp, which has been my key reason for wanting to upgrade. The models we have been working with lately have gotten fairly big, and it is getting slow.

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SPECviewperf 11 for SolidWorks results at 1920 x 1200 (no FSAA): 32.8. Noticable stability improvement over Quadro FX 580 in SolidWorks 2010 SP2.1.

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This video card is a little expensive, but in turn you get good performance. I chose thismade my decesion on this card from reviews I found on other websites, mostley for video editing. Having the 2 HDMI video outputs was a plus, especially for doing video editing. This is a worksation video card, and performs as such. Videos playback very smooth and I have not experienced any video jittering during the course of editing my video taken with a Canon HF20 video camera. This was a new build system which included the Asus P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard and Core I7-920 CPU. I would reccomend to anyone doing video editing, even though the price is a little high, it is worth it.

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I have had 3 FX 1800 for my machine. First one did not work from day one, I took it to this retailer they tried, still did not work. I returned it. Second worked 6 weeks, when I lost the dualview, I use two monitors at 2048 x 1080 pixels. Third one worked good for 3 weeks, after that worked only on one monitor, I am returning it today. I will switch on FX 4800, we have a few at work and work good.

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If you got money, buy this for amazing performance boost for Photoshop and in gaming.