[citation][nom]eodeo[/nom]edward396,what ever you do DONT get a quadro card. [/citation]
Can you please explain a bit more in detail why not to get a quadro card?
At my company I'm in charge of autodesk licenses, and sort of stopped recommending getting cheaper gaming cards a few years back when I did real world tests to see the effect.
In inventor 2009 professional rendering a short video took 2 minutes and 3 seconds in software, and a whopping 2 seconds less with a geforce card in.
Later we got new geforce 9600gt cards (instead of the aging 6600gt ones), and while some features stopped stuttering, overall the performance increase was only visible on the aircondition and background noise. Not the system performance.
Getting old quadro cards changed the game a bit. They're slow, but actually being utilized by the software.
ps. we use : autodesk autocad, revit, showcase, inventor, 3ds max (all 2011 versions except showcase in 2010), adobe cs4 & arcgis 9.3.
How many of those would benefit from geforce cards and not only quadro?
ps. last year we tried using ati hd4000 series cards instead of geforce (price), and saw a similar lack of performance boost....