nvidia quatro 280 PCI video card? *desperate poster*

SCfuji · #1 03-02-2005, 09:54 PM

pci? dude get a motherboard that has an agp slot!

radeon vid cards are fine too.

BeantownCaller · #2 03-02-2005, 09:59 PM

the Quattro cards are for video editing of some type I believe...might be important in some lines of work but you don't need to pay a premium. No need to stress over video cards. Maybe 5 years ago, not now. Unless you're a hardcore gamer any budget card is going to work fine for you, and a budget card used to be like $100, now it's cheaper and far better.

hate · #3 03-02-2005, 11:24 PM

Nvidia's quatro/quattro however you spell it, cards are used by 3d modelers, a lot of CAD stuff. If you're looking for a cheaper good card, just get a VGA and DVI Geforce 4 Ti4200/4400/4600, Geforce 3 would probably work fine too.

phuc · #4 03-03-2005, 01:25 PM

If you are using LCDs, I highly suggest against what hate said because there usually is a huge difference between using a DVI connection and an analog (VGA) connection. your screen will be a little blurry with the VGA and you won't be getting the stellar quality that your LCD can produce.

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Nvidia's quatro/quattro however you spell it, cards are used by 3d modelers, a lot of CAD stuff. If you're looking for a cheaper good card, just get a VGA and DVI Geforce 4 Ti4200/4400/4600, Geforce 3 would probably work fine too.

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Also, if you buy one of these from ebay, you can definitely get it for under $100, probably under $50 (but you'll have to buy the dual DVI cable as well).

aflaba · #5 03-03-2005, 03:18 PM

My computer has an AGP slot. But there I already have one (old) 3d graphics card with a VGA port. I use that for my CRT (until I buy another LCD).

So I was figuring I'd leave the old card and get the new one on PCI. I understand PCI is slower, but does that affect this particular graphics card in any way? Or does that only affct better graphics cards.

Also I don't understand why people say it's for 3D and CAD.

At http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadronvs.html it says that it is specifically for multidisplay 2D graphics. Is there something I am missing? That was namely the reason I "desided" on it.

hate · #6 03-03-2005, 03:41 PM

The quadro line has better processing power for 3d modelling and CAD. Apparently this is some cheap desktop quadro and not the ones I deal with. As for DVI vs VGA, in general the only difference you'll see is when you're using a substandard VGA cable, and the cards I were referring to are usually DVI+VGA. The "quality" of LCDs is still suspect, they were substandard from inception, and are only now exceeding CRTs for picture quality.