GeForce 6800 Ultra video card

[GREIF]

Does anyone use the GeForce 6800 Ultra video card? does it work good, any issuses?

We want to try 1 since they are cheaper tha quadro's but have 256mg ram and are powerfull

thanks for any feed back
Greif

 

[Heckler]

Greif,

Check this thread in the FAQ faq559-936 I personally think you should buy one of the cards listed on this FAQ. If you can't afford a brand new card check ebay for a used card. IMHO don't waste you money on a non SWx supported card....you're just asking for trouble.

Best Regards,

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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Do you trust your intuition or go with the flow?

 

[SBaugh]

That card is not supported, you can tell by the name "Geforce". There isn't on GF card that shows up as supported, whether it be a PCI Express or AGP card.

Some people have had luck with some GF cards, but if you call support with an unsupported video card, then the first thing they and we would look at would be the video card.

I don't recommend anything that doesn't show up in SW list of certified video cards, those that show up in yellow or red I don't recommend at all.

SW would love to have these cards to be certified, and I would too, because it make the spiel much easier... but the facts are all here right out in front of us all to use! If we dont' use it, then we can only blame ourselves.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376
faq559-716 - SW Fora Users

 

[ctopher]

I 100% agree with Scott and Heckler.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP2.0 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site

FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

 

[cloche]

I also agree. Note that nobody says that it won't run; only, IF you will experience trouble, then... read till the end, I do believe there is something that may interest you ! ;-)
My personal experiences:
- laptop with FIRE GL video card, 64 MB dedicated mem (2 years ago): well, the rest of the laptop was at the same level, so no surprise that it was a REALLY GREAT experience!!! models with 10000 components (machine for granite processing) spinned zoomed etc without slowdowns. No graphical artifacts, viewport refresh/update fast and extremely "clean".
- laptop with Radeon 9000, 64 MB dedicated mem (the rest of config similar to the previous one): not the same... with more than 10 parts opened at the same time (not 10 parts in memory, of course!), performance begins to drop. Spin/zoom OK, but calculation of sections extremely slow (100% demanded to the CPU). Artifacts and aberrations in 2D drawing, partially corrected with newer drivers; OpenGl specifications only partially resolved in hardware. It's the same kind of problem with GeForce: not all OpenGL instructions are in hardware and, though the OpenGL implementation in SW is far not the best I've ever seen as regards speed, this may be an issue for you also...
- "workstation" with ATI FIRE-GL T2 128 AGP 8x: really worths the cost!!! I spend 2 more words about the machine on which it runs: single Intel P4 3.2GHz, 2GB RAM, SATA hard-disks. Even with this "poor" configuration around, this card is able to manipulate a 59 MB single-part file (an hydraulic turbine...) that has a RAM occupancy of 247 MB in Unigraphics NX2 (yes, a bit off-topic, but in the company I am now I don't use SW any more...) at 27 frames per second... Section view of complex double-curvature geometry is created and redrawn almost instantly... Couldn't believe it... It costed only 290 Euro...
- GeForce 6800 with 256MB RAM: tried it only one evening (the reseller had it in shop, and he agreed to make a test btw the FIRE GL and the GeForce: the latter costed more than 500 Euro so I wanted to be sure before deciding...), with UG and the same model as before: very nice, but not the same feeling as with the FIRE GL: not a matter of framerate, rather sometimes it hangs for a second, probably because it processes something in software OpenGl, where the FireGL is full-OGL 1.1 compliant in hardware... Or whatsoever... So in the end I decided for the ATI... But it's all relative to the program I use, the kind of geometry I manipulate, my hardware config, etc...