Has anyone used the new ATI HD 5870 gaming card with UG yet? Not sure if the Direct X 11 helps on UG yet or not. But, the combination of the price (< $400) and hardware specs make it pretty tempting looking to me. The cards also support 3 monitors. I'd like to know if anyone is using this card...
I've read the postings on the graphics cards. To summarize the Nvidia 1800 750 MB has been recommended as a very good value, ATI 5700 512 MB looks like a pretty strong entry. I'm concerned about the validity of the UG benchmarks as if I am understanding it correctly the benchmark ran on NX1...
Similar to my other thread but with a little different focus. I'd like to hear from UG NX users that have gotten new systems in 2009 that they really think are top end. How much memory, type of processors, graphics cards and monitors? What would you have changed? If you could have gotten the...
I'm evaluating the cost of upgrading our various UG/NX work stations. I'd like to get in the mode where I buy a pretty decent workstation about every 6 months. Currently we have several running 4-5 year old machines running Windows XP with 3 to 4 GB ram. Historically we've always tried to get...
