Quadro

[knightsilver]

Has anyone used the Quadro 1500 or 3500 in Maya.
Where I am still in the learning stage,( I'm still using Maya PLE) would the 3500 be overkill?
Or could I get away with a geforce 7800GTX that I've heard that would work with Maya?

Like alway, you guy ROCK.

thanks,
shane c.

[Jak_Carver]

ive used a 3450, and there is little difference between that and a 7800GTX. Theres this myth that you need to have a quadro to run maya real good, but its not true. "They" especially like to get this crazy idea into the heads of newcomers to the industry. Theres alot of stuff you can do with a quadro, so they are good cards. But things arent how they used to be, some years ago, you really couldnt run maya well with something like a radeon 7000LE or a MX4000. Nowadays though, gamer cards like the 7800GTX are so powerfull and come with such high end GPU's that they can rival quadro workstation cards. Times have changed to the point where you can get the same performance from a 7800GTX 512MB video card for only $500 as you would from a quadro 3450 256MB video card which costs around $1,200. "They" dont want you knowing this because the small market there already is for workstation cards would prob dwindle away and die. I know a fellow animator who bought a $800 WildCat 512MB workstation card for personal use in his home system, yet one of my systems has an old FX5600 256MB AGP card and it runs 3d apps, games, and can handle screen recording programs while his cant.
My advice, dont be easily suckered into the hype of Quadro video cards, yeah theyre great, but why pay thousands when you can get the same hardware performance from a video card that can cost you only $500?

[Fatal_Films]

Hey Knightsilver,
What Jack Carver says is true man...
Thats exactly what I am running on...
I have a dual xeon server setup, yet running it with a 7800 GTX!
and guess what?
it works great!
I have to admit, that it will get a little jerky when u overload your scene with paint fx or allot of pollys, but hey? they all don't they?
at the end of the day... you'l pay so much less... for not that much difference in performance.

Hope this helps.
Regards
-Martin

[dennisn8tkk]

I have a Desktop AMD64x2 2.2 gig with a Quadro FX 4500 and a laptop with a Dual Intel 2.2gig with a 7900GX And there is only a slight diffrence between them. So I would say save the cash to get other things you might need. Like MAYA 8. Have fun rendering :)
Regards,
Dennis

[knightsilver]

thanks guys, Ill go with the 7800GTX.

thnaks,
shane

[knightsilver]

For the price of the 7800 GTX, I can get a 7900GTX 512MB.
So, would ya go, 7900GTX??

thanks,
shane c.

[dennisn8tkk]

7900GTX is a better card