for some reason there seems to be a hole in PC world... You either get cheap shit computers with i5 processors 3 gigs of ram and quadro FX cards or badass gaming pcs with 12 gigs of ram and geforce cards...

Then the quadro PCs jump to server quality stuff and cost 10k+ with xenon processors and the crazy 5k quadro cards.

Does anyone have an I7-950 & mid range quadro card? with 8-12 gigs of ddr3

Or can i run a gaming pc with a geforce card and a quadro card or do they have to be sli cards to run dual video cards?

1/2/2011 8:59:51 PM

Paging BlackDog

1/2/2011 9:10:06 PM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133252&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-Video%20Cards%20-%20Workstation-_-PNY%20Technologies%20%20Inc.-_-14133252&AID=10440897&PID=1646355&SID=7240466.25-1636100

1/2/2011 10:19:20 PM

buy a decent oem business/consumer pc with the cpu/ram specs you are looking for. then buy a quadro card aftermarket. done and done.

Why would you even ask about running a quadro AND a consumer card in the same pc, much less in SLI? if you buy a gaming pc, sell the geforce card, replace with quadro. I dont know if youve checked prices yet though, because workstation graphics cards (especially the mid range ones) arent cheap at all.

1/3/2011 2:24:37 AM

Can I run 2 separate non sli cards in a tower with 2 pcie 16x ports?

1/3/2011 4:12:45 PM

yes

1/3/2011 4:46:35 PM

cool thanks , ordered.

1/3/2011 5:28:00 PM

Quadro cards are STUPID expensive (as you've seen...)

Anyone using a Tesla box? I'm curious to see after effects cs5 performance on these.

1/3/2011 10:38:51 PM

Got it... New I7-2600 12 gigs of ram 1 Geforce gts450 1 quadro 1800 and a windows rating of 6.2 held up by a single HD with no raid everything is in the 7s (7.6 i think)

1/13/2011 7:47:06 PM

^sweeeeet

How are you restricting the cards to discreet applications?

1/13/2011 8:17:15 PM

I have no idea how i'm going to do it. Currently i have a cad monitor and a not cad monitor one connected to each card. I have no idea if that will do it but probably not any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you,
-Foo1

1/14/2011 6:44:54 AM

^I'm very curious how this works out. Both are CUDA compatible, so the software should be fairly confused. I'm not up on the GPU offloading stuff, but I thought it was more an internal process instead of tied directly to the monitor it's connected to. Similar to a co-processor.

The reason we switched to quadro cards on workstations was for their increased on-board memory. Some of the geforce cards were much, much faster - but we could load up a boatload of points and textures in the extra memory, which resulted in faster work.

1/15/2011 11:45:38 PM