[mikhael]

Originally posted by USS Alexander
Ok tommorow i'm gonna buy a new graphics card.

i now run on a:

4.2gig
4gig ddr
Nvidia FX5200 128megs

I want a new graphic card wich is the best at rendering and the fastest on the market and suites my system well, i need it for high end graphics and heavy rendering enz so i need the best of the best.

Wich one is it?price is no problem.

If you care about Lightwave, stick with Nvidia cards for the low end and Oxygen or Wildcat cards on the mid to high end.

If all you care about it games, get the top end ATI or the top end Nvidia (with Lightwave preference going to the Nvidia, naturally).

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Windrunner
IN the words of Homer J. Simson "SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP"

7 000 dollars for a graphic card, you sir are nuts i tell you nuts

At least you save $4,391.99.

[Jetmech Jr.]

Originally posted by DragonClaw
If price isn't a problem, here's your solution Alex:

http://www.pcnation.com/web/details.asp?item=C20553

For $7000 ($11000 if you look at the 'retail price'   ), that thing had better be able to magically transform my pc into solid ****ing diamond

[mikhael]

Actually, that Wildcat has more raw processing power than your PC, easily. Buying workstation caliber graphics cards is very different from buying gaming graphics cards, in much the same way as buying a race car is different from buying a get-you-to-work car. You're paying for raw, unadulterated power.

[DragonClaw]

Oh, mind you, the Quadro FX 4000 is very likely to be more expensive. Unfortunately, I could not find that for sale anywhere.

[edit] and seeing that the most expensive wildcat I could find was this one:
http://www.pcnation.com/web/details.asp?affid=303&item=901564

I'd imagine the Quadro is far better

[USS Alexander]

Originally posted by Flipside
Notebooks and Laptops aren't really recommended for render work, they tend to not like being on and computing hard for more than about 19-20 hours per day. The Sony Viao seems to be pretty sturdy for this, but if you are using it for rendering, I would still really recommend a Desktop.

On that note, I'm looking at getting a Render Server for exactly this job, graphics card/sound card would be cheap ones, Motherboard, Memory & CPU are very important. I've got about £1000 to spend. Ideas/suggestions anyone? I'll be screamernetting it to my 1700XP I'm using now.

well i use my notebook also for rendering and study from time to time but my desktop is purly for rendering(it's more a server then a desktop).

my noteook is a DELL inspirion 2.8gig 512 meg

i also want to play games with it so, and LW and Maya3D enz so it has to be a proffesional/gaming card, you think the FX6800 is that kind of card?

[vyper]

Guys, while we're on this topic:

Do you think a motherboard limited to 4x AGP is significantly slowing down an 8x capable video card?

[01010]

Originally posted by vyper
Guys, while we're on this topic:

Do you think a motherboard limited to 4x AGP is significantly slowing down an 8x capable video card?

Personally, I remember reading an article that states that even the latest video cards aren't even fully using 4x AGP at the moment, but I can't recall where I read it or how accurate it was.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by vyper
Guys, while we're on this topic:

Do you think a motherboard limited to 4x AGP is significantly slowing down an 8x capable video card?

No, its not, because almost nothing uses the AGP on-the-fly fetching that the AGP bus was meant to allow. nine times out of ten, your AGP card has enough memory, that the speed of the AGP bus is not slowing down the resource fetches except ONCE during intial load.

Long story short? don't worry about the AGP multiplier, except to be sure that you AGP card can handle the lower speed slot and that your motherboard can handle faster boards (some 4x mobos get a bit fruity when you put an 8x card in the slot, even though the card works just fine at 4x on another mobo).

[Flipside]

Originally posted by USS Alexander


well i use my notebook also for rendering and study from time to time but my desktop is purly for rendering(it's more a server then a desktop).

my noteook is a DELL inspirion 2.8gig 512 meg

i also want to play games with it so, and LW and Maya3D enz so it has to be a proffesional/gaming card, you think the FX6800 is that kind of card?

True, I've always had in inbred distrust of Laptops, but then, that's probably because the only one I ever owned was years ago, the thing weighed a ton, and ran for about 2 hours before the battery alarm went off They're probably a lot better than my tainted opinion suggests

I hate ScreamerNet, I would very much like it to curl up and die like the unfathomable piece of ****e that it is. Although I have 3 computers on my Network, the only way I can get another computer to help me with my rendering is to copy lightwave onto the other computer, together with all the content files, and then load the scene into that

Sorry, just spent the evening trying to set it up again and this seemed like the best place to rant

[.::Tin Can::.]

I've had a 9600 XT and never will go back... no problems and runs every game like a dream. Frames on Freespace 2 never ever drop bellow 60... and it runs about 100 to 140 bucks.

[Stealth]

it's sad that nowadays your graphics card has as much or more 'memory' than your computer