Graphics card for home design which to go with here??

[VParis85]

Quick queston A bussiness owner has a guadro fx 3000 for redeing his home designs in 3d but is a slow and choppy process when he wants to move around. I was thinking of going with one or two 7950 gx2 but dont know if those cards are good for that or should he stick with an fx based card im a game not a designer but would think 2 7950 gx2 would destroy that fx 3000 for that. what do you all think here?

[MaxxxRacer]

From what I have seen the 79XX series based quadro cards are the best for 3d studio.. The ATI variants dont do nearly as well.

The 7950GX2 would do ok, but the drivers are totaly NOT designed for 3dsmax and might give some problems..

[deathman20]

Well first off SLI nor Crossfire work in these programs. They don't help speed up the viewport at all. Best suggestion for that would be to get either more ram or split the scene up more so it can be easily viewed.

As for cards the gaming cards work (i know i've used them in the past), professional cards do sometimes add extra features (all due to driver support). Truely gaming and professional cards are exactly the same, only difference is that the professional card has a different bios to detect it as such which can utilitze the professional drivers that are optimized for the programs.

Also the CPU can be the culprate for slow downs as such with ram if you don't have enough. The CPU needs to be fast, because when modeling it doesn't utilize dual cores that I know of currently. But then again thats only 2 programs that I know of (3D Max and Maya) XSI I don't think it does either but it all depends on what hes using.

[VParis85]

Thank you he has a quadra fx 3000 right now so i think im going to move him to a intel core 2 duo and 2-4 gigs of ram and see how it fairs