New computer

[PIERSON]

Our company is upgrading all workstations and laptops. They have ordered for me the Dell XPS 710, W/ Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.67GHz), 4 GB RAM, with a 768MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX Graphics card, and dual hard drives. I see that this box is for gamers and is more than what I need. I just want to know your opinions on if this will work well with Solidworks and MCAM X2.

[Guest]

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I see that this box is for gamers and is more than what I need.

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and you're complaining?

 

 

Take it and say thank you very much IMO

 

 

I would

[Steve Zirtzman]

You can never have enough computer! I would go with the Nvidia Quadro FX series graphics Card.

[Kannon]

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I see that this box is for gamers and is more than what I need.

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I have just the computer for you then...god I hate to part with this one, but to be a pal..I can take that one off your hands and I will give you mine.

[John13]

lol @ Kannon

 

You think X2 is coming with it Kannon?

[Troy Gossett Indepak Inc.]

Unfortunately you can build an entire system for less than the price of 1 Quadro FX card... Is there really that big of difference compared to the card he has listed?

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

The 768MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX Graphics card he's getting is about as good as you can get for a gaming card. I'd like to see a side by side with a few Quadro FXs sometime.

[Zero]

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The 768MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX Graphics card he's getting is about as good as you can get for a gaming card. I'd like to see a side by side with a few Quadro FXs sometime.

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you could probably soft-mod that card to perform just like a quadro fx....

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Here's an article on Nvidia's site talking about advantages of the Quadro line.

 

http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_geforce.html

[gms1]

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You can never have enough computer! I would go with the Nvidia Quadro FX series graphics Card.

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The Quadro is what I would go for.

[Troy Gossett Indepak Inc.]

So since MCAM overlays windows the Quadro series cards have more channels to support the windows within windows. Does this mean a card with say 128MB

Like this one:

PNY VCQFX1400-PCIE-PB Quadro FX1400 128MB 256-bit DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail $349.99

 

Would handle perform beter then the one described above? Can anyone confirm or deny this?