El Cheapo Video Card

This just in from the head MIS drone:

He wants a Video card, capable of running SolidWorks with no "severe
limitations", that is AGP 2.0 compliant, 1.5v, and is as cheap as possible
("My God! Over $100 is way too high", would be a quote), from a vendor, not
from eBay.

I almost told him to kiss the padded blarney stone, but figured I'd ask the
faithful......


Mr. Pickles
SW 2004sp2

 

GeForce 440MX (8X AGP) with 128 Mb of DDR costs less than $60 now.

 

Well Mr. Pickles, it depends on his definition of "severe limitations". If
he wants it to run Solidworks, or to test SW and to determine what's at
fault when things go wonky, etc. the best bet is to go with a real Quadro.
I used Geforce's with the softquadro hacks for a long time (my laptop still
does) but it's hard to get people to listen to you when something crashes,
even though it was never the cards.

On www.newegg.com you can get the cheapest Quadro4 for $145 shipped.
Anything less will likely suffer the multiple window slowdowns, etc. If
that won't matter then go with a cheapo Geforce4, as Sporkman suggested.

- Eddy

 

Or a GeForce4 Ti 4400, still better than a lot of Fx.

 

my VP560 cost me 120 quid from Kelkoo a few months ago. That's about 200
dollars. Since you guys always seem to have dollar to pound parity with
electronics, you might be able to get one for $120.

Working very well with the 0655 drivers...

Chris

 

You can still get new a Quadro2 Pro for under $100

 

Before you buy, check the solidworks website for graphics hardware
testing.... they test most cards for compatability (Pass/Fair/Pass with
limitations). Geforce cards have limitions....read up! BTW, tell your MIS
person to quit buying shit. When it comes to productivity, a quality video
card matters.

Tim