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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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