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| jasonbar:
bkenobi, I like your logic the best, since it matches my reasoning! :] The fan on the least lame card was busted, so I traded a buddy for an almost-fitting fan, did some whittling on it, then a little zip tie reinforcement, & I'm in business! Windows says that it's a Quadro2 Pro Integrated RAMDAC 64MB , which according to one of my previous searches, is 1 better than the Quadro2 Ultra. Downloading a newer driver now, but it appears to work. Hooray! Thanks, -Jason |
| speedklz:
THe Geforce 2 ultra is going to be a better bet. The Ultra model actually outperforms the first GeForce 3 products in some cases straight fromo the wikki. The Ultra will have a higher clock rate and has more memory, the quadra series was ment for things like auto cad and so. |
| bkenobi:
Correct, Quadra's were designed off of the GeForce hardware with higher specs designed for CAD systems (primarily). The cards are certainly not worse than a comperable GeForce (same model line), but the drivers may not be tuned for gaming. I don't think you would have a problem getting gaming versions of Quadra drivers if you were to look around. I remember a number of threads on certain deal forums discussing buying server level systems for cheap gaming machines. I would be surprised if no one had looked at using different firmware/drivers to make these high quality cards work as well as their gaming counterparts. But, being that these are all really old cards, I wouldn't spend too much time on it cause you can get something newer for less than $25 these days. :cheers: |
| jasonbar:
Howdy- Yup, we're an aerospace design company, & we use Solidworks a whole lot, so our graphics cards are geared towards CAD, certainly. The machine already had a working driver on it. I tried downloading one for a Ultra & the driver installer said that there was no applicable hardware on my machine for it. Then I noticed that it was a Pro, so I got the latest Pro driver & installed it (no complaints from the installer). But I couldn't get the darn thing to display more than 4-bit color!!! =( So I reverted back to the working driver. Thanks, -Jason |
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