- May 2, 2015
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Hello
I am relatively new to this forum and I posted a support question some time ago but did not get much of a response. I think that I may have made the question too complicated.
I have a number of Dell Precision 490 workstations that have served me well for architectural CAD over many years. They are reasonably well configured with dual Xeon 5160 CPUs (4 cores in total), 16 Gb of RAM and Nvidia Quadro FX4600 graphics cards. Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. These computers are now starting run a bit slow with 3D (mainly Trimble SketchUp) and I would like to update their graphics cards so as to get a couple more years of service out of them. I would prefer to upgrade using Nvidia GeForce or AMD Radeon cards rather than their workstation equivalents due to cost and my past experience being that Nvidia Quadro cards do not seem to perform any faster than their GeForce mainstream cards. I would like to limit the cost to about $100 to $150 per graphics card.
I am hoping to get some feedback from members who have successfully (or otherwise) installed newer graphics cards in Dell Precision 490 workstations. I was hoping to be able to upgrade to something equal in performance to either a GeForce GTX 750 or a Radeon R9 270. From my reading, I understand that there may be some compatibility problems between the PCIe 1 bus that is provided with the Intel 5000x chipset on the Dell Precision 490 and the newer graphics cards which all seem to be PCIe 3. I would be willing to use older PCIe 2 graphics cards if someone has had success with these.
Many thanks to all the members who read this posting and especially to those who are able to offer some advice and assistance.
I am relatively new to this forum and I posted a support question some time ago but did not get much of a response. I think that I may have made the question too complicated.
I have a number of Dell Precision 490 workstations that have served me well for architectural CAD over many years. They are reasonably well configured with dual Xeon 5160 CPUs (4 cores in total), 16 Gb of RAM and Nvidia Quadro FX4600 graphics cards. Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. These computers are now starting run a bit slow with 3D (mainly Trimble SketchUp) and I would like to update their graphics cards so as to get a couple more years of service out of them. I would prefer to upgrade using Nvidia GeForce or AMD Radeon cards rather than their workstation equivalents due to cost and my past experience being that Nvidia Quadro cards do not seem to perform any faster than their GeForce mainstream cards. I would like to limit the cost to about $100 to $150 per graphics card.
I am hoping to get some feedback from members who have successfully (or otherwise) installed newer graphics cards in Dell Precision 490 workstations. I was hoping to be able to upgrade to something equal in performance to either a GeForce GTX 750 or a Radeon R9 270. From my reading, I understand that there may be some compatibility problems between the PCIe 1 bus that is provided with the Intel 5000x chipset on the Dell Precision 490 and the newer graphics cards which all seem to be PCIe 3. I would be willing to use older PCIe 2 graphics cards if someone has had success with these.
Many thanks to all the members who read this posting and especially to those who are able to offer some advice and assistance.
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