My New Computer 1

[macduff]

Hi,
I'm purchasing a new XPS 9000 computer for home and need to know which is a better G Card?

nVidia® GeForce® 310 512M GDDR3
nVidia GeForce GT 220, 1024MB

It seems to me that more memory is a better G Card, but wanted to check with you folks. I check the customer portal and did not see SW aprrovals for these cards. Can someone help me out?

Thanks,


Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2009 SP 4.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

 

[ctopher]

I'm not familiar with them. Are they for use with SolidWorks?
I don't see them on the certified list.

http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/videocardtesting.html

Chris
SolidWorks 09 SP4.1
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Neither of those two is better for SW ... they are both equally bad.

You may be lucky and have little or no problems, but the chance of that is somewhere between slim and none.

 

[macduff]

Thanks. Can you recommend an inexpensive one that I can run with SW?

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2009 SP 4.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Try

http://www.nvidia.com/content/HelpMeChoose/fx2/HelpMeChoose.asp?lang=en-us

It depends on what you will be trying to do with SW, and how much you are prepared to spend. I would suggest an FX580 or FX1800 as a minimum ... or their ATI equivalents.

 

[macduff]

You rock CBL, thanks!

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2009 SP 4.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

 

[mjcole]

I had a GeForce card on my old machine and SolidWorks ran okay but RealView didn't work for it.

I've seen some posts about tricking your system into thinking you have a certified card but my card didn't have a compatible Quadro FX driver it would work with.

Check some of CorBlimeyLimey's links relating to GeForce cards

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=255730&page=3

Beware of the Quadro NVS card which is designed for multi screen setups for Security Systems and not the CAD systems Quadro FX cards were designed for,

I now use an ATI Fire-Pro card which is their latest version of cards.

Michael

 

[BodyBagger]

For the best results stick with a card in the Nvidia Quadro FX line. The level of the card depends on your level of expected SW model/assy complexity.

1800, and 3800 models can be picked up new on Ebay for a respectable price and will give great performance, IMHO.

Regards,
BB