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3D rendering with GeForce Quadro FX370

Asked by rondre in AutoCAD Software, Miscellaneous Hardware, Video Cards

Tags: hardware, nvidia

I built a computer for a client who uses autocad 2006 and suggested that he use the onboard video as a starter and we could add a card later on if he wanted more power. He never used the 3D modeling that much because he was concerned that the computer wouldn't be able to handle it for larger files. He stated as an example a 1.7 MB file that he could spin in 3D and it was pretty smooth using the onboard memory. To make a long story short he asked me to order him a new card and for price point i suggested this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133209

figuring that since the onboard video is an ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 with 128 shared memory (of 2GB) and this is a dedicated card for AutoCad applications and has 256 mb of card memory that he should at least notice a marginal difference.

Unfortunately the 1.7 MB file doesn't appear to be any smoother and when attempting to spin a 3D image of 15 MB the rendering was approx 1 fps and was not smooth at all.

My question is does anyone know more about autocad and these nvidia quadro cards than I do and can they tell me if this sounds likea faulty card or if this card is just not enough for doing 3D effects? Are the firegl series better than the quadro cards?

I would assume that this card should be able to handle a 15 MB file since it has 256MB of ram just on the card and there were no other applications running.

The specs on the computer are:

Motherboard:ASUS M2A-VM AM2 AMD 690G Micro ATX
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ windsor cor
2 GB (2 x 1GB) Corsair XMS DDR667 memory
Western Digital 7200 rpm 160 gb Sata II in Raid 0 array

Any help would be appreciated.

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3D rendering with GeForce Quadro FX370

Asked by rondre in AutoCAD Software, Miscellaneous Hardware, Video Cards

Tags: hardware, nvidia

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