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We have a CAD/mech engineer in at work temporarily while they get a visa to work in the US. I've got Pro-E (a 3d-cad program) on a decent PC (3GHz P4, 1G RAM, etc), but it's got onboard gfx. It really gets loaded down with the CAD stuff.
I was wondering if there are cheaper cards out there that will take some workload other than the high-end Nvidia/Matrox cards?
OK, I found this:
http://www.exciteit.co.uk/store/EXCI...Product=100112
The FX-540 with 128Mb of RAM. I was wondering how these would perform, if it would even make much of a difference?
Is the machine AGP or PCI-E?
If you can get hold of an ATI (or partner) 9500/9700/9800/X800 card, these can be modded to be the equivalent FireGL card.
http://www.rojakpot.com/showarticle....tno=105&pgno=0
you could try www.retekdirect.co.uk as a known supplier of cheapish second-hand ATI cards.
That's awesome! Love the mod, I'm going to give it a go.
I think the PC is AGP, but TBH I haven't opened it up yet.
It's probably AGP if you aren't sure :p I take it it's not one from your sig?
No, I have definitely opened them up before :mrgreen: Too many times...
It's a work PC in the office, I'm not in IT so I have never opened up that PC or even really looked at it - I just know it's a P4 with 1G of Ram.
IT at my work are not very willing to try soft-modding, etc, and generally don't know squat about PC hardware, just about networking (which is fair enough).