NVIDIA Quadro FX 560

Advantages: veyr fast, good processor speeds, beats any card on the market, 256 MB RAM
Disadvantages: very, very, very expensive, not really anything wrong with it

...▲How it came to me ▲ Well, my graphics card before this one was, quite frankly, rubbish, to say the least. I brought some new games that demanded a faster and reliable graphics card, so, I told them I wanted to get the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX, which I was very happy about buying after I received it. I paid something in the region of £2,250, from Dabs.com, I’m not joking either, I was fed up with graphics cards that don’t work and that most games aren’t compatible with. Well, I was in one hell of a surprise with the quality of this card, and how quick it was as well. I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t going to be ripped off, so I went for Dabs.com, because I know that they deliver quickly, and that it would come to me on time. I waited four days for this to turn up, I made dabs.com pay for recorded delivery so... Read review

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Advantages: Resolution
Disadvantages: struggle at times in PRO-E when you have a part with lots of faces and edges mainly around the fillets

...Nvidia Quadro 2 MXR/EX 32MB AGP 4x I haven't had any major problems with my graphics card. It does tend to struggle at times in PRO-E when you have a part with lots of faces and edges mainly around the fillets (rounded edges). The model becomes transparent in these areas and looks rubbish. I use print screen quite a lot to get images out for reference purposes or for design reviews and that doesn't look good when I do that. The resolution is more than enough I can get this card to go down to: 1600 x 1200 and I do use this facility sometimes if it's a big assembly then maybe a higher resolution would be good but I wouldn't use that very much. I don't know whether this problem is associated with the graphics card but I get terrible colour differences between my screen and printouts. I also find when I'm moving large... Read review

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Advantages: Good all round OpenGL performer. Great software app support too.
Disadvantages: 512Mb of RAM shows when using heavy scenes with lots of textures

...I decided to join the Nvidia camp, and buy a 'professional' card, as opposed to a gaming focussed card. I work in the field of 3D using various 3D packages (Maya etc) and some 2D packages. OpenGL performance is key, and the need for ZERO time lag when doing delicate 3D manipulations of geometry is essential. I went for a brand new mid range card. meaning a good price (just over 300 pounds), yet with great performance. Check out this Nvidia comparison chart to see where the card sits in its product family http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO11761.html Having used it extensively for over a month now, this card is stable, reliable, and very easy to get up and running. The latest Linux driver is perfect in every way for my uses. Wireframe/shaded views are great, the tiniest bit of slowdown occurs in highres textured mode. Fully... Read review

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