Heckler,
You're right, I guess CAD is not my main goal...I don't want to do too much work at home, but it is a good excuse to spend money on a decent upgrade! It's hard to justify spending so much $$ to play games.
I'm hoping the limitations of the gaming system won't be too apparent for the...
CorBlimeyLimey,
I hear that an SLI setup doesn't like two different cards, and it might not take advantage of the SLI itself. But I think you mean using two non-SLI cards, which I know nothing about. This crossed my mine, but it seemed like it would lead to more problems than it is worth (for...
Heckler,
I know I can't have the best of both worlds, but I find it hard to believe that it is absolutely necessary to have one of the SW recommended cards, given all the cards out there. If I was only interested in CAD, I would definately go for one of the quadros, but I'm reasonably confident...
Thanks for the replies...I think I should be OK. I know the recommended cards are different than gaming cards, but that's the extent of my knowledge. Guess I'll go for it and see get what I get.
John
All,
I am building a home PC for home computing and gaming, and want to be able to run SolidWorks 2006 without too much trouble. I was wondering if anybody is running a eVGA 6800GT graphics card, and how it is working? I'll be using and AMD 3700 (939) processor, with the option to upgrade to...
