Solidworks & Radeon video cards

Does any body have any experiences, good or bad with Radeon gameing cards
such as the 9600 & 9800 pro.
I can get either of these cards fairly cheaply for a new computer i
am building and want a card that will do most things well enough.I dont
really want a specialist cad card.
The Solidworks site gives these cards a "red mark" useing winxp but doesnt
really say
if they are seriously bad for SW,or have just minor annoyance issues.
Thanks in advance.

 

Red means serious problems, don't use these cards.

Richard

 

Hi,

I had a Radeon 9800 Pro 128meg, and had nothing but problems
in Solidworks, for all other multimedia and games that card was
exceptional, but when using "real" OpenGL application nothing
would work right, I got myself a Leadtek GeForce FX5900 256mb
all was pretty good when I installed it, but now with RivaTuner I have
a Quadro FX3000.. and this rocks..

Regards,

Louis.

 

Robert,

For a few years I've been reading all these wonderful reviews about these
ATI (Radeon's and Fire) cards versus Nvidia and others. The normal
experience that myself and a number of my friends that use SolidWorks is
that these cards just don't work well with SolidWorks. Slow performance, to
many minor annoyances, and so on. To me it seems like the drivers are never
quite right. I would suggest that these cards be used for graphics apps,
multimedia and games. Nvidia Quadro 4' XGL series and Quadro FX's seem to
be the way to go. I personally think the Quadro FX500, FX1000, and FX2000
are as good as it gets for SolidWorks. In addition now they have recently
added the FX1100 and the FX3000 to the FX line.

Adding one of the above Nvidia cards to a motherboard that has an AMD
processor (Athlon or 64) and the Nvidia nforce motherboard chipset is I
think a very good overall system.

 

i have a duel monitor system at work. a 3dlabs card apg and a radeon
pci. my radeon will not work with solidwork. not even if i set it as
my main graphics card.

 

Thanks for the input guys looks like i will be going with Invidia.


Robert