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Other than name calling and childish remarks I don't see any real proof that geforce is better than quadro for gaming other than the cards are way more expensive. quadro fx-5500 cards sell on ebay for 1000 to 1200, the retail value is 2500, thats only what 400 more than 8800gtx and you get more ram. I have read in the past that quadro's play games with the doom 3 engine better does anyone have any benchmarks with the framerate.
Oh wow now you have me angry I paid for this not my parents!!! Unlike you people I don't live with my parents and on my own! You must find these boards fun to rip on people and remain immature jerks and don't grow up?
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This is a good bit of information from Mr. Spartan, (thanks for the info)

You asked for it, so now I get to rape your eyes and lower your IQ with the amount of data I'm gonna give you.

Regardless of who builds a workstation VGA (ATI or Nvidia), these cards are never designed with the intent of gaming. To put this in perspective my 10 yr old GeForce 256 was able to outscore an FX1500 Quadro in one of the older 3DMark benches (forget which one it was about 5 yrs ago when that happened). But this is just perspective the following is hardcore data.

The 2 VGA's I'm going to be comparing are ASUS 7900GTX and the PNY FX5500 Quadro. Here are the specs for each (links will be provided to each website for reference):

7900GTX:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814121023

Interface: PCI-E x16
Core: G71 at 650mhz
Memory: 512mb GDDR3 256-bit interface at 56gb/s bandwith at 800mhz (1600mhz DDR)
PPL: 24
3D API: DX9 & Open GL 2.0
Max Res: 2560 x 1600
SLI enabled
$500 price tag
no specific driver set

FX 5500

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814133189
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVIDIA_Quadro
http://www2.pny.com/Nvidia-Quadro-FX-5500-PCIE-P1804C36.aspx

Interface: PCI-E x16
Core: G71 at 700mhz
Memory: 1gb GDDR2 256-bit interface at 64gb/s bandwith at 500mhz (1000mhz DDR)
PPL: 12
3D API: DX9 & Open GL 2.0
Max Res: 3840 x 2400
SLI enabled
$2400 price tag
application specific driver set

Now, just going by the numbers you can see that the quality of a frame is the focus of importance in the Quadro cards. The GeForce line is meant for gaming. Now if you can see that the cards have the same core, I'll clear up one of your mis-informations about the Quadro. Quadro's are loosely based on the GeForce cards. The reason I say this is for 2 reasons (large dose of IMHO comes with this):
a) the G71 equipped Geforce came out 1 yr before the G71 equipped Quadro's
b) some GeForce cards do well in CAD applications. This is not by design, rather this is due to "flukes" in how well the hardware works CAD style programs.

Also, Quadro's are designed to run off of the Open GL library rather than the DX library because DX is all about speed and GL is about quality. A CAD render at 2560 x 1600 on my 7900GTX takes about 4-5hrs to complete with all of the Quality settings cranked to max. However if I go to school and do it there on a FX1500 Quadro the render time goes down to 1-1.5hrs and my GTX is 4 times larger than that thing.

In lay mans terms if your worn out by now: The Quadro's are designed with an Open GL CAD application specific driver set and have been built from the ground up to render a single frame in extremely high quality within a reasonable time frame. The GeForce's are designed with DX specific driver set and are optimized for gaming with very generalized VGA architecture.

You wont be making any records in the 3DMark benches (although the Quadro will do nice in the batch and fill PPL/PXLS tests )

Also, you saying the P4D is nice is like saying the sun is cool to the touch. Here's an article chronicling the K8's rise to power over the P4:

http://www.cpuid.com/reviews/K8/index.php

Sad thing about that article is that its over 2 yrs old now.

Hope you save money on your next build.

SPARTAN-117 out.

And also from wikipedia.org
The NVIDIA Quadro is a series of AGP and PCI Express graphics cards created by the NVIDIA Corporation. The cards are designed to accelerate CAD (computer-aided design) and DCC (digital content creation) and are usually found in workstations. This is in contrast to the GeForce line which is specifically targeted at computer gaming. Competing products include the FireGL line of workstation graphics cards by the ATI Technologies, Inc.. Companies such as Matrox and Avid also focus on specialized hardware accelerated graphics cards intended primarily for DCC. Dual-Link DVI ports are needed for very high resolution DVI LCDs such as the 30" Apple Cinema Display, Dell 3007WFP 30" display or the IBM T220/T221 displays (which require 2 Dual-Link DVI connections).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadro


No for the final bit of "proof" go to nvidia.com. Look under workstations and what do you see? You see the quadro cards, what are they used for? You can refer back to wikipedia or look at nvidia's website.

Now, go to the desktop section at nvidia and voila! GAMING CARDS! They are also NOT Quadro cards...
 
Congratulations!!!
Your combination of extreme graphics and meh processor is the equivalent of mounting a jet engine on a Yugo.
Kudos to you on your Cyber-Darwin Award!!!!
 
I beat fear with my pentium 950 and fx-4500 in sli with all the setting at max on 800x600. It played nice at 1024x768 but slowed down with more enemies.
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I haven't played a game at 800x600 in like 3 or 4 years. My old 6800GT can play FEAR at 1024x768 just fine. I will reiterate...all flaccid.
 
If you are using Catia , CAD or any other 3D modeling in severe conditions... you quadro plex model I would be fantastic...and will not overload you PC PS... but if you are only building a Gamming Rig , spend your dollars on 8800 GTX SLi set up , you will spend less and may have some better performance due transfer rate as PCIExpress x16 lane will be used to connect your quadro plex rig...
You should get a better CPU... Core 2 Extreme or Core 2 Quad ... them your system will be a real gamming rig... don't forget to get a Dell 30"monitor ...
 
Just you wait, I'll overclock my Prescott and you'll all be running for the hills!

(And playing FEAR smoothly @ 1280x1024 on my X800XT)
 
*super computer? this is a joke right? Like everyone esle told you,you just waisted $18k on a card you cannot use for gaming.If you do not belive anyone here,email nVidia.they will tell you the same.And whyspend $18k on a card,and buiy a sucky CPU & board? that makes no sense at all,and as far as your memory goes,you need at least PC6400,buy if you have $18k for a card,then go with 4 Gbs of corsairs new PC10,000. Why dont you send us some photos?
 
I will never buy an ati or a geforce they are cheap. I am going to get a xeon quad core system, they don't support sli but now that I have a plex it doesn't matter. Like having the cake and eating it too. 😛
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I agree! That said, can you tell me where I might pick up a Cray Computer? Would love to run Supreme Commander at full resolution.
 
The original poster is either a noob or retarded. Why would anyone even attempt to game with a Quadro? An 8800GTX is both better for gaming and cheaper... And a Pentium D? When are the new R600 cards coming out btw?
 
I beat fear with my pentium 950 and fx-4500 in sli with all the setting at max on 800x600. It played nice at 1024x768 but slowed down with more enemies.
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I can play F.E.A.R. at 1680x1050 with all in game options on the max, 4xAA, 16xAF and Softshadows enabled and maintain a perfectly smooth framerate.

This thread is definitely an unfunny joke.
 
I beat fear with my pentium 950 and fx-4500 in sli with all the setting at max on 800x600. It played nice at 1024x768 but slowed down with more enemies.
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I can play F.E.A.R. at 1680x1050 with all in game options on the max, 4xAA, 16xAF and Softshadows enabled and maintain a perfectly smooth framerate.

This thread is definitely an unfunny joke.
I wish I could pull that on my Radeon 9800Pro. Oh well, I feel an upgrade coming soon, if I manage to land a job here on campus.

Quadro Plex here I come!!

I mean.. 8600GTS or something.
 
Why does everyone dis quadro cards. The drivers make no difference in gaming performance, there is only one vista driver and it supports geforce 8 series and quadro together so the drivers are the same. Quadro is the top of the nvidia line it is more powerful than the geforce and more power is better for gaming. Geforce is like a cheaper made quadro card or they start making the quadro and then use information from it to make the geforce and take out the complex, expensive to make it more inexpensive. I have sli fx-4500 right now until the plex come's out with the vista driver and I have never had any problems with any games except toca race driver 3 which is from cheap codemasters.
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Umm Quadro cards are pure CAD OpenGL cards. This particular setup (the Quadroplex Model 1) uses two nVidia Quadro FX 5500 cards. Each one of these cards is slower then a Geforce 8800GTX (yes I'm not kidding).

They're also based on the GeForce 7900GTX processor and not the newer 8800 series. They only support shader model 3.0 as well.

Here are some specs for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 card:

Memory: 1GB GDDR2
Memory Interface: 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth: 33.6 GB/sec.

Now compare that with a GeForce 8800GTX:

Memory: 768MB DDR3
Memory Interface: 384-bit
Memory Bandwidth: 86.4GB/sec.

Honestly.. which one do YOU think is faster?!
 
Dont forget the 2nd hard drive to load ur games into, and send the paging file and temp internet files folder to.

then use ur 1st drive for other functions.

This technique helps keep ur pc running and loading fast.
 
"What do you think of my new super gaming computer"
LOL! What a great post!

I think it blows. What a crappy computer, waste of money and... I must add a compliment...
you dug your own grave, congrats :twisted: I don't think I have ever seen a deeper burial in these forums...but that's just me. 😛

EDIT: I resisted to post at first sight of this thread, thinking this was all a joke, but to see you constantly defending it... made me realize that I had to make this post:

"Chips" you get the award for being the most computer illiterate NUBCAKE in the forums :trophy:

Props to you dude. :wink:

I'll say it nicely:
You wasted a sh1tload of money on a crappy computer that can't even do what a computer under $1200 can do with ease. Hell, a $2000 computer would outperform your computer 4 times over...at least.

The fact that you cannot take the advice of the most wise posters through over 8 pages worth of posts in the forums clearly shows your ignorance.

I beat fear with my pentium 950 and fx-4500 in sli with all the setting at max on 800x600. It played nice at 1024x768 but slowed down with more enemies.
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That is not something that you ever will want to brag about.
That has got to be one of the most halarious things I have read in a while, what a horrific example of wasted money.

FYI:
Even my old Athlon XP 2500+ and x850xt ran everything max at 1280x1024 with ~30 fps.

:trophy: Thread of the Year. :trophy:

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/agree
 
:trophy: Thread of the Year. :trophy:

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Seconded.

I'd like to thank the OP for being outlandishly ignorant and short sighted. Without his/her blatant disregard for proof, this award would not be possible and I am honored that I had the opportunity to giggle, snicker, guffaw, giggle, chortle, or otherwise laugh at this post.

Thank you!
 
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