[deadalvs]

hi ..

there are some PNY cards that have the same NVIDIA chipsets on them .. what's the main difference to the «originals» ?

is it just the price ?

[deadalvs]

.. hmm .. i'll ask somewhere else .

[numerobis]

sorry... i think i missed this thread

PNY is nvidias only partner for quadro cards since elsa had become bankrupt in 2002(?) - here in germany and europe i think, i don't know about the rest of the world, but i think it's all the same.
PNY cards are the "original" quadro cards on retail market. oem partner are getting their parts directly from nvidia... i think.

i've read that for 2009 nvidia plans to cooperate with elsa again and there should be new quadro based cards from elsa...

[deadalvs]

soso, die kuh elsa ..

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thanks for the input ..

well i was thinking to buy one of them, but i may also wait for sometime in 2009 .. i guess it's worth the wait, right ?

[Bubbaloo]

I want the 4 Gb Quadro FX 5800!

[deadalvs]

that's the one that also waters my eyes ..

[Bubbaloo]

That's the one that reddens my boss's face when I tell him I need it.

[voxelpictures]

The high end Quadro cards are more usefull when competing with high end visualization: Scientific and film and parametric modeling etc.

I use two PNY quadro with 512 MB onboard each on two workstations and i can assure you that i puch over 3,000,000+ poly's on Maya in fullscreen textured. On Autodesk Inventor and AliasStudio, things works very fine, assuring that you use the qualified drivers tested and approved by Autodesk on their site fot Maya, Alias and so on....any new drivers doesn't mean that it works better...beware...!

Now, 4 GB on a Quadro is.......Good! What can i say....it's good.

[polynurb]

personally (if i could) i would get the fx4800 with 1.5 gb
or the Quadro cx (basically same thing)

HP and Lenovo also sell quadros, sometimes HP is cheaper to get than pny

deadalvs, if you're still on european soil check this:

hp:
http://geizhals.at/eu/?such=HP+quadro+4800&a=46658188

pny:
http://geizhals.at/eu/a389253.html

[deadalvs]

if just there were FINALLY a glance possible at new rendering technology that would port engines like maxwell over to the GPU side.

it's so frustrating having to wait hours and hours for cg-images. it should be the art behind the images, the design that takes the time, not the rendering process !

i've invested in art vps a couple of years ago and it'd been more than a setback. i've lost so much money in old hardware and near-zero software development. those fuckers promised a good radiosity solution «render in minutes not hours» for maya and what i got was catastropic.

i'd have loved that hardware and would have been proud of using their stuff, but they just let down everyone except those paying the very big bucks. this is the reason why i know it's hard to assimilate standards (like CUDA) that may vanish again in months, leaving hopes behind after vast amounts of money and development had been invested.

where to go ? even gelato died after a year or so !

damned, ATI and Nvidia, find a damn standard !

[deadalvs]

cheap:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... No=4311512

[ivox3]

and maybe cheaper ......


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... EF:US:1123

[Mattia Sullini]

if just there were FINALLY a glance possible at new rendering technology that would port engines like maxwell over to the GPU side...

This should be something similar to a standard. I'm not an expert, but it sounds like!
http://www.khronos.org/opencl/

Sul sito non compare ATI che però utilizza STREAM che viene dichiarato pienamente compatibile con le specifiche OpenCL...potremmo esserci

[deadalvs]

hmm ..

on this link:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... No=4311512

there's a sign of pci xpress 2.0 .. would that even be compatible with my mainboard ?

http://www.intel.com/Products/Desktop/M ... erview.htm

it's got a x16 slot ... a little too technical for me (yet) ..

[Fernando Tella]

You guys are paying for your graphic cards more than I pay for my whole PC... (I think more than I paid for my both PCs together).

I would go for FX570 (~164€), but I don't know if it's worth it compared with a GeForce 8800 GTS.