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Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:08:24 PM | Video cards that work with 2009 & 3 meg switch

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I know Mr. Spot has stated in the past that mid quality gaming cards work best for him but where are most of you at.  We are wanting to expand memory but the 3 meg switch won't even let 2009 start on one of our machines.

 

Who has what using 2009 and the 3 Meg switch succesfully?

 

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Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:37:35 AM | Video cards that work with 2009 & 3 meg switch

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A few months ago i try to do that and my PC crash with XP 32Bits, so i buy Vista 64bits and now i'm working with 8Gb Ram and no problem....

 


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Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:46:47 PM | Video cards that work with 2009 & 3 meg switch

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Thanks Typhoon but we are still using XP. 

 

Does anybody else have anything to share?

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Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:26:27 PM | Video cards that work with 2009 & 3 meg switch

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Come on guys .... someone has some thoughts about this.

 

All imput is greatly appreciated.


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Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:51:24 PM | Video cards that work with 2009 & 3 meg switch

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I think it's time to Upgrade man.... lol

 


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Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:42:50 AM | Video cards that work with 2009 & 3 meg switch

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We don't want to " upgrade " our office of 50 to VISTA since we are still hearing about too many problems with that system.  But we do want to upgrade our systems and that's why we want imput on the video cards.

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Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:26:52 PM | Video cards that work with 2009 & 3 meg switch

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I tried the /3gb switch and all the other /PAE, /USENV, etc switch combinations but ran into all sorts of problems with my video card (ATi FireGL).

Am about to upgrade my OS to 64-bit WinXP. Will be interesting to see if this improves things. For now, I will keep my RAM at 4gb (system sees 3.25Gb) but may throw in another 4gb later.

I don't want to upgrade this machine too far as it may make it hard for other users in the company on non-upgraded machines to work on models generated on my PC.


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Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:03:14 AM | Video cards that work with 2009 & 3 meg switch

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I am using the 3GB switch daily with no problems on my DEll Precision desk top with a quadro 3700 card running XP 32 bit. I work on hospitals and some smaller projects but the 3GB switch is almost necessary with the size of the files to move at any sort of pace and have multiple windows open in Revit.

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Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:15:36 PM | Video cards that work with 2009 & 3 meg switch

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Strange. After all the video hassles, I stripped all memory-related startup switches out of my BOOT.INI file and the system ran a lot better/

 

Then, for other reasons, Dell replaced the entire box under warranty - the new one came in preconfigured with a pretty bare startup string - I left it like that and was surprised to see that it reports 3.25Gb of available RAM

 

I'm in the process of moving to 64-bit WinXP - will see how well that works. If it pans out, I'll add another 4 Gb of RAM - only problem is that mine wil then be the only desktop in our organization with so much RAM available so other users may have problems working on bigger models that I create. Might then have to upgrade all the others too.


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Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:04:23 PM | Video cards that work with 2009 & 3 meg switch

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The IT dept. wasn't to happy about adding in the 3GB switch to our systems but they let us try it anyway and we have not had any problems. 2 others in my dept. have Dell laptops with the 3GB switch installed and they have not told me about any problems using the 3GB switch. I have XP 64 bit at home and don't use the 3GB switch, I have 6 GB ram and 10000 rpm hd in that computer and it works so much better than the Dell.

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Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:08:14 PM | Video cards that work with 2009 & 3 meg switch

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Strangely enough, my Dell laptop running 32 bit Vista seems to run better than the desktop - Will have to see how much better things are after I complete the upgrade to 64-Bit WinXP

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Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:45:25 PM | Video cards that work with 2009 & 3 meg switch

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Thanks ... There are now some video card recommendations on AUGI:

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=70735

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