Thinking about getting a 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 500
Thinking about getting a 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 500
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This card looks to be a good mid-range card. The reviews look promising, faster than my current (problematic) Quadro FX1400.
The card is reasonable affordable (570 euros) over here, not much more than a Quadro FX 1400.
Is there anyone here that has first or secondhand experience with this card and the 3Dlabs drivers?
The card is reasonable affordable (570 euros) over here, not much more than a Quadro FX 1400.
Is there anyone here that has first or secondhand experience with this card and the 3Dlabs drivers?
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student






RE: Thinking about getting a 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 500
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RE: Thinking about getting a 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 500
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
RE: Thinking about getting a 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 500
This behaviour is verifyable with the Realtech-VR OpenGL Extensions viewer, located at:
http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/
The benchmarks & reviews on the Wildcat cards seem pretty good, but 3Dlabs announced to leave the professional graphics market and I'm a bit worried about support for newer software (Vista & SW2007 for instance).
I also e-mailed 3Dlabs about this. (no respondse yet)
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student
RE: Thinking about getting a 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 500
Thanks for the feedback as to the nature of your problem. Is your card very old or perhaps able to be swapped under warranty of any kind? For the price of cards like these, I expect them to far outlast any computer I'm using with them.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
RE: Thinking about getting a 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 500
To be honest, I believe the hardware side of the HP Quadro FX 1400 I have is the cheapest stuff they had laying around, it's a simple nVidia Geforce reference board, no modifications, the memory chips are the slowest spec'd chips I've ever seen on a Geforce 6600/6800 series card and the cooler is exactly the same as a cheapass Geforce 6600GT I had in a previous system. The only differences are the lack of an external power connector, the print (/hardware lock) on the nv42 chip and the driver mode...
You'd expect for double the money they could have at least given you memory as fast and an equal amount of it as the cheapest gaming cards... let alone the oldscool noisy cooler...
Take for example the XFX GeForce 6800 GS 256MB DDR3:
Memory speed as sold: 1,1GHz (550MHz DDR)
Default memory speed: 1,0GHz (500MHz DDR)
Amount: 256MB (GDDR3)
Bus width: 256MBit
Memory bandwidth as sold: 34,3 GB/sec
Default memory bandwidth: 31,2 GB/sec
And the HP Quadro FX 1400 (confirmed specs):
Memory speed: 600MHz (300MHz DDR)
Amount: 128MB (GDDR3)
Bus width: 256MBit
Memory bandwith: 18,75 GB/sec
Both utilize the very same nv42 core...
PNY Quadro card pic:
http://www.pchut.nl/pics/g/J9XR05.jpg
HP Quadro card pic:
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Inno3D 6800 LE pic:
http://pics.computerbase.de/news/10706/1_m.jpg
</bit of a rant>
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student
RE: Thinking about getting a 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 500
Haven't had any problems with a Wildcat 990VP Pro. The 990VP powers two screens quite well. The line work on the screen dosn't look as sharp as my home geforce 4400ti (gaming card). I have run them side by side on my work computer, two identical 21" CRT screens. I have not seen the new realism's in action, they may be a lot more sharper.