Recent content by finalcutjoe

i may be wrong... but... XP won't let you use a CD for updating RAID drivers... it needs to be a floppy you'll need to transfer those pesky RAID drivers off the mobo disk

you can find the files here- http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=A8N-SLI

6800GS has enough horsepower (PCIe) only problem i'm having with it, is the incredibly noisy cooling fan.

sweet i took an air compressor to my old QUADRA 840 A/V after it started flakin, runs like a charm now theres no dust....

If you payed 3000$+ for a Quadro FX3400, you did get ripped off. Even the Quadro FX 4500s don't price that high. the DELL workstation w/ the QUADRO was $4000 OTHER 'workstation' cards cost upwards of $3000.00 RBP

yes. my evans & sutherland was unstoppable with AutoCAD and Lightscape 10 years ago- forget about trying to run it on some HP Pavilion with a TNT RAGE GPU. The opposite was true also, the RAGE had great FPS with quake, while the E&S barely squeezed out 2-3FPS. now, the modeling technology that...

it's more likely Dell gives the big company's more attention, over the home or small business user- for obvious reasons so i can see your point, from a management POV. IT departments can spend alot of time/$$$ running around maintaining machines, so shifting the overhead to companys like Dell...

furthermore....plugin the 6800 into the Dell wouldn't show much difference at all! 3Dmark06 heavily favors the GPU, and the P4/3.6 doesn't have much on the P4/2.6 Prescott, anyhow :roll:

you must have missed my post (msg. 9) above... read it. and to couch it in your analogy, it's more like my tractor performing just as well as my ferrari race car (AND the tractor combines the wheat to boot).... the QUADRO FX3400 has lousy gamer stats, good CADD performance. the GeFORCE 6800 GS...

i understand the AMD is choice for gamers, OC'ers... however, in addition to playing HL2, i use my setup for CADD and visualization apps like AutoCAD and Lightwave, which seem to favor the intel's (in everything but raytracing/radiosity) here's what i don't get- i understand the QUADRO's a...

lemme qualify- the $675 includes 500PS, 10k SATA/150 system drive, ANTEC case, aux fans, rounded cables, and 17" LCD btw- i'm hearing more and more horror stories about poor chumps who've bought Dells- no customer support, wasted hours in phone hell, fried systems, etc....

i'm having a really hard time believing dells are really as bad as the performance numbers look... DELL Precision 370 Workstation P4/3.6, 4G RAM, SATA system drive, NVIDIA QUADRO FX3400 running 3Dmark06 gives me a score of 1901! WEAK just threw together an MSI 915PL Neo-V, P4/2.6 503, 1G...