Vidio card selection? Gforce4 Ti4600 good? platform?

[ZippyMcfast]

We are upgradeing our 3 pro/e seats to P4 1.8's looking for a good vidio card for under $400 to put in them. we are considering the gforce4 ti4600 and windows XP as a platform.
is this a good choice? Please help?

 

[ProEpro]

Are these new systems or old ones being upgraded. Either way you are obviouly on the low dolar route. Here are my recamendations.

Get the fastest ram your system will run.

If you want a card that is certified with Pro/e get a Quadro4 not a Geforce four. They will be faster espeacily with lines instead of shaded. The price of the 700 XGLKL which is what I bought for my system is $450 (

http://www.pricegrabber.com)

If you want the lowest dolar aproach and are willing to use a game card get a Ti 4200 with DDR ram. The Ti 4400 will be a little faster but make sure it has the DDR ram. The Ti 4600 is about $100 more and is not worth the extra cost. I am not sure if you need 128 or 64 megs of ram.

This article will show you the speed difference between a game card and a quadro card.

http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=45000354

Also check out the benchmarks and results at

http://www.spec.org

and

http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/ocorten/

Olaf's bench is better because it runs pro/e not just a bunch of pictures.

This article is the best benchmark of videocards I have read.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,55961,00.asp

ProEpro

http://www.whitelightdesign.com

 

I use a "Quadro4 750XGL" at work and a "Leadtek Ti4600 Ultra A250" at home with a 20" dual monitor configuration. I really don't notice any difference at all. No, I haven't run benchmarks on either but the Ti4600 really CRANKS!!! Even for work I would personally rather have the less expensive Ti4600, which works perfectly for high end graphics such as ProE. The first time I fired up my system, a 1.7 Ghz with 1 gig of ram, with the Ti4600 I was in awe-no kidding!

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/02q2/020418/vgacharts-05.html

 

[Alex822]

We have 8 Leadtek GF4 Ti4600 cards in Pro/e machines and our engineers like them very much. Our old machines had Elsa Gloria II cards and these are every bit as good or better performance wise. Stay away from the GF MX cards, I don't care for them though...