Anders Lindgren Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 (edited) Hello! I am going to buy a new computer and I have got an offer on one with Quadro FX 330, 64 MB pci-express. In charts on PNY's homepage the card has an application performance in Pro E-02 and UGS-03 which is twice as much as the best Quadro FX 4000 AGP card. Is it really much faster than all the AGP-cards, which is much more expensive? And it has less memory size? Is it right or have I misunderstood something? I am not sure if the 330 card will perform enough. I need a card for entry level or mid range. Chris or anyone else, could you help me? Do you have any experiance whith pci-express cards yet? Best regards Anders Lindgren PCI-express cards chart (on page two) AGP cards chart Edited September 16, 2004 by Anders Lindgren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lohman Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 We do not yet have any experience in-house with the PCI-E cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EricFoy Posted September 28, 2004 Share Posted September 28, 2004 I recently bought a Gateway 500GR, which is a 3GHz HT 800MHz FSB blah blah blah, with Intel on-board graphics. The native graphics aren't half bad for being the basic built-in stuff, but when I installed my Gigabyte Technology nVidia GeForce PCX 5900, that's when things got interesting. All I've ever run is lower- to mid-range graphics cards, so I can't compare this thing to the thousand dollar boards, but lemme tell ya: for a fast 200 bucks, this card SMOKES. OpenGL renderind is beautiful. Performance is there. It's ON. So Here's my bottom line: ATI: look for trouble - OpenGL won't work well, no matter what they say. nVidia: OpenGL rocks. Go with PCI-Express if possible and enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lohman Posted September 28, 2004 Share Posted September 28, 2004 thanks for the info Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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