What is a "RELIABLE" video card you've used with SOLIDWORKS
What is a "RELIABLE" video card you've used with SOLIDWORKS
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Question 1) Is your card supported by solid works?
Question 2) How much did/does your card cost?
Question 3) Does your Solidworks crash regularly?
We have 5 designers at my work, running SolidWorks 2005, SP2.0 windows xp pro, with AMD Sempron 3000 chips, 1gb ram, ATI Radeon 128mb 9200 SE video cards (and yes i know they suck)
We have probalby 2-5 crashes of solidworks per user per day. This obviously sounds like more then it should be. We are looking into buying new video cards (we are thinking its the vids that are giving us conflict) Unfortunately we dont have a ton of $$$ to spend on cards now. only want to spend between 200-250$ per card.
Anyone an expert in this area?
What cards should we get? Im having trouble finding any cards that are SW compatible under 500$
Thanks.
Derek
Question 2) How much did/does your card cost?
Question 3) Does your Solidworks crash regularly?
We have 5 designers at my work, running SolidWorks 2005, SP2.0 windows xp pro, with AMD Sempron 3000 chips, 1gb ram, ATI Radeon 128mb 9200 SE video cards (and yes i know they suck)
We have probalby 2-5 crashes of solidworks per user per day. This obviously sounds like more then it should be. We are looking into buying new video cards (we are thinking its the vids that are giving us conflict) Unfortunately we dont have a ton of $$$ to spend on cards now. only want to spend between 200-250$ per card.
Anyone an expert in this area?
What cards should we get? Im having trouble finding any cards that are SW compatible under 500$
Thanks.
Derek






RE: What is a "RELIABLE" video card you've used with SOLIDWORKS
Check the FAQ link under this forum
http://www.eng-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=936
This will give you the 411 on video cards. This topic has been talked about at least twice a month.
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Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 2.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NIVIDA Quadro FX 1400
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RE: What is a "RELIABLE" video card you've used with SOLIDWORKS
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Chris
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RE: What is a "RELIABLE" video card you've used with SOLIDWORKS
Question 2) How much did/does your card cost? $220 US
Question 3) Does your Solidworks crash regularly? NO
We use the Nvidia Quadro FX500 here. For the most part we do not work with exceptionaly large assemblies.
I am assuming that you have AGP slots for the vidio cards.
Check out zipzoomfly.com they offer that fx500 for 209 us
RE: What is a "RELIABLE" video card you've used with SOLIDWORKS
John
RE: What is a "RELIABLE" video card you've used with SOLIDWORKS
No problems almost 2 years running. I cannot remember a video problem since using this card.
Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
RE: What is a "RELIABLE" video card you've used with SOLIDWORKS
2) I have 2 computers so I have 2 cards
a) http://www.digitallyunique.com/vcqfx500-pb.html
b) http://www.digitallyunique.com/c99719.html
3) No - they both Run SW extremely well an fast.
FYI - video card is n't the only thing to be concerned with. Drivers, daily computer Mantainence, HDD speed, Network, CPU speed, etc...
See FAQ's on more information.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
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www.scottjbaugh.com
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RE: What is a "RELIABLE" video card you've used with SOLIDWORKS
2) Retails for ~$580 but came with refurbished Dell Precision 370 that cost $1700
3) Crashes are very rare
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