M6500 Video Card Choice

[CNCGUY]

Looking at a new M6500 and wondering if the Quadro FX3800M is worth the extra $470 or will the FX2800M work fine. Both are 1gb which is already an improvment over what I have now. Should the $470 be spent on some other upgrade???

[Thee Rickster ™]

FYI

 

I got a New GTS 250 gforce in my box at home.

It replace my fx1500 and I got 10X the improvement

with MC. ($190)

 

Quadro cards, IMO, are overrated for what is out there that works excellent. Ever since the 'video'

verify issue with X4 patch came out you should not

need specific Cad/cam cards for MC.

 

BTW how big do your MC files get?

 

HTH

[Guest]

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Quadro cards, IMO, are overrated for what is out there that works excellent. Ever since the 'video'

verify issue with X4 patch came out you should not

need specific Cad/cam cards for MC.

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I COMPLETELY disagree with this.

 

You can get a GeForce card to work OK but at the end of the day the Quadro's are just flat out better for the CAD/CAM purpose.

 

There's a reason why Solidworks doesn't qualify a single Geforce card to run SW's

[Thee Rickster ™]

Interesting.(but i knew you would)

 

I have zero issues with solid works and MC on my GTS

card. Files are huge in both softwares. Every thing

runs smooth and 10x quicker.

 

But you probably have more experience with this

type of issue as I have only two identical P.C's

at home and at work(Quadro)that I compare with.

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

We just purchased our second ASUS G72GX laptop for here in the office. 1 Gig Nvidia card standard with 6 Gigs RAM 64 bit OS. $999.00 at Best Buy. Upgraded OS to Ultimate

[Scott Lundin Shopware Inc.]

When using Mastercam X4, my Geforce 9800GTX+ card works just fine. I recently installed Solidworks and Mastercam for Solidworks. Now the Geforce 9800GTX is unusable in Mastercam for Solidworks. Backplot and Verify freeze up, the desktop shows through in various parts of the Solidworks interface, and the only way out of it is to restart Solidworks. Its a mess. I installed a Quadro FX 580 and now both softwares are working just fine.

[Scott Lundin Shopware Inc.]

Todd,

 

I have had my eye on that same laptop. I would be very interested to know if that new laptop will handle mastercam for Solidworks without the video flaking out. Please keep us updated.

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

Its 64 bit so no.

[Scott Lundin Shopware Inc.]

(64 bit)...Oh yeah, I forgot about that little issue.