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I'm look at next year getting new machines cause our lease is up at the end of 08. I know the FX 3700 is alot better than the FX 570, but is the boost worth the money for Revit?
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Good question and one I believe is not easily answered. The main reason being does Revit support the better graphics card? Then of course you will have to ask yourself will the better graphics be a better option in the long run because they might be upping the the performance in Revit 2010. Well that is what I have heard anyway.
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I talked with someone at a Revit Seminar the other night. His opinion was that the videocard doesnt really matter except for shadows. He told me the most important thing to consentrate on is processor(s) and RAM. RAM most of all. I guess I'd like to know from others who have upgraded recently or knows more about this stuff what their opinions are. Thanks Elmo for responding.
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Well it is true that at this time only processer and ram are the major factors for rendering. This of course makes things a little difficult. So what I've recently upgraded was my motherboard processar and ram since those 3 work in close relation to each other.
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honestly check out the wikipedia page on quadro fx cards. tells you in a nice chart the chipsets used in all the cards. then you can see whats really under to hood without a lot of research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadro_FX
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Hi, Thanks for the information, I've only just come across the dilema of GeForce or Quadro for my new intended computer. Just wanted to knwo whether you guys were talking about Revit 2009? Does anyone know whether Mental Ray has a preference towards GeForce cards or Quadro cards, or whether it's just the beastier the card the better? I'm having trouble deciding what how much each affects rendering times, the processor or the graphics card, can anyone help? Cheers, J-P
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The graphic card it's very important and you must spend some money in that but to improve time in render you must focus in processor and ram, until now Revit it's not MULTI-PROCESSOR (YET) but with OS 64bits (XP, Vista) "He" takes all RAM you have in your machine so...
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ati just announced a new line of firepro workstation cards. one of them is supposed to only be $99. I would probably just go with that if you don't want to spend a lot of money. Otherwise their next step up is $599.
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Hi Putting aside Revit for a moment, i'm having problems with the resolution with Quadro FX570 & Dell 2009Wt widescreen monitor. I had the Quadro with a regular screen & it was fine at 1600x1200. 1600x1200 stretches on the widescreen so that circle appear ovoid. At 1440x900 (non stretched) the screen space is less than with a regular aspect screen. The quality of text, say, within Outlook is very poor. Tried another PC with the widescreen & a Radeon X1300 PRO which have 1680x1050 (didn't stretch) screen space was good & text quality sharp. Given that the Radeon wins for general windows appearence, is there any preference for either when using Revit? Cheers Dave F.
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you need to use a widescreen resolution when using a widescreen monitor. 1600x1200 (4:3) is not widescreen and will make everything look like crap.
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Turns out the IT dept. connected them using VGA instead of DVI. Still not convinced about the benefit of widescreen for CAD use. Or any use come to that, other than watching DVD's.
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DaveF, I'm with you there. My firm has been using 20" widescreens and I'm going to be seriously pushing for dual 19"LCDs. The widescreens are good for comparing word docs and websites, but not CAD or Revit. Are you happy with FX570 performance now that you know it was a connection issue? I'm not really a fan of ATI. I really hate their drivers.
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Early days yet but it seems OK. also had a ram upgrade so it's difficult to tell which gave the preformance boost but the images/lines appear sharp. I've noticed I have to do more scrolling with widescreens when using pdf or word docs. I'm asking for my old monitors back!
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