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Good gaming laptotop better than cad laptop?

Good gaming laptotop better than cad laptop?

Good gaming laptotop better than cad laptop?

(OP)
Hi,

I am in the process of buying a new Dell M4400 laptop. I was wondering if the M770 card included is better than a good gaming card we can find in the personnal gaming laptop serie.

Gaming laptop are less expensive and in desktop I've heard that gaming card are as good for less money than cad card.

Any cue on this?

RE: Good gaming laptotop better than cad laptop?

You've heard wrong. Gaming cards and CAD are two different creatures. Theoretically, you could mod the gaming card but not the best idea.  

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP, Certified DriveWorks AE
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog

RE: Good gaming laptotop better than cad laptop?

Some gaming cards can give good or even very good performance when used with SW. When soft modded they can even be as good as Quadro FX cards.

In general however, gaming cards will not be anywhere near as good as CAD specific cards.

cheers

RE: Good gaming laptotop better than cad laptop?

Is your profile name your company?
If so, there are specs listed to help.

Also, check the FAQs here or the SolidWorks site.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
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RE: Good gaming laptotop better than cad laptop?

SolidWorks is quite finicky when it comes to the graphics card and drivers.  As such one of the first questions asked as part of diagnosing a problem with SolidWorks is "Are you using an approved card and driver?"  When you answer no, the recommended solution will be to switch to an approved card and driver.  This fixes enough problems that it is hard to argue against it being the top recommendation.

Save yourself some time and grief and go with a CAD card listed as approved on the SolidWorks web site.

Eric
 

RE: Good gaming laptotop better than cad laptop?

I have a gaming card on my home system which costs about 1/3 of my cad card at work, and I notice no difference in performance. I do not get realview, but thats just eye candy for my specific instance and not something required.

I also dont use assemblies that have more than 100 parts, so your milage may vary.

RE: Good gaming laptotop better than cad laptop?

I am no expert on graphics cards, but from what I understand with the move to Vista OS and Direct3D and away from OpenGL there is no incentive to go for a CAD card over a game card.  Please respond with url links to information to set me straight if my understanding is flawed.

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