Any recommendations on Graphic Aceleration Cards? Nvidia or Quadro or? Thanks

poser doesnt use any graphic acceleration :-((

For use with Poser, you mean? Anything Nvidia-based (from the past two years or so) should be just fine. Nvidia has excellent driver support. As thgeisel says, Poser doesn't make use of 3D hardware acceleration, so an old Geforce2 MX is just as good as the latest Geforce FX 5900 Ultra. If you're planning on using anything else along with Poser (games, DAZ Studio, Lightwave), then I'd recommend more recent products, as good hardware acceleration will be an important factor. Nvidia's Quadro line is best suited for workstations and high-end applications like Maya.

If I had to buy today, I would probably get a Radeon 9700 Pro. According to the review I have read, perfomance and image quality are excellent for gaming and hardware accelerated 3D-apps. More infomation is available at: www.anandtech.com www.tomshardware.com

Personally I like my Geforce 4 4800SE 128mb :) Dualhead, TV in/out... does the job nicely

Depends if your an Nvidia fanboy or not. For current (DX7 & DX8) games a Radeon 9700pro, I've got one, never had any trouble with it, I run everything at 1600x1200, though it will go higher. But if you're hankering after Doom3 then you may as well wait 3 months and see what happens. I was reading on extreme tech that some of the first gen of the 5800's were better then the 5900 because of the DDR2 memory built in. They're cutting costs on the 5900 and only fiting DDR1. But if you're paying that much for a card, then you may want to look at the Radeon 9800pro too, little faster, they tweaked the pixel shaders, etc. But in all honesty, $400+ GFX cards are for bragging rights. We won't see DX9 games go mainstream for one-two years yet, as it will take that long for the game production cycle to catch up with the hardware. But for serious 3d stuff, yeah, take the Quadro, no question. later jb

lol I wish mine was a $400 plus card.. it was 120 ... a lot cheaper than the closest ATI (plus after a complete run around with drivers when I used ATI before, I won't touch them with a 40ft pole).

My card is built into my motherboard. It's an nVidia GeForce 4 MX integrated GPU. It shares the memory with the computer. I only allocated 32MB to it. I can allocated up to 128MB, but I don't think i need that much for the work I do.

I have an ATI 8500DV card. Good capture quality if you have the right software (not what comes with the card). Does't make a hill of beans of difference with EIU, Poser, or Bryce. CPU and RAM are important with those programs.

But Daz Studio will- extensively apparently, so does anyone know what the best card to get for that would be?

The fastest card you can afford, of course. One of the new Geforce FX cards (a major improvement over the originals), or an ATI Radeon 9800. At this time, there's no way to say for certain which would be best for DAZ Studio, since we don't yet have the software in our greedy, grasping little paws in order to test it for hardware compatibility issues.

So probably the best advice is to wait!

For Studio? It's supposed to use OpenGL, which means you either need OpenGL in hardware, (very expensive) or in software on a fast card, (the latest Nvidia or ATI boards, still expensive but... :) I would have thought that anything built in the last two years will work with Studio, they'd be dumb to limit it any futher. If you wanted a cheapish card now then buy a 9600 or so, it's a cut down version of the 9700 with fewer pipelines, etc. By the time Studio comes out they'll probably be a lot cheaper. If you can afford to wait, do, you'll ge a better card for the same money. But if you want a better card now, take your pick, anything over $150 will be good, from one of the above two firms. later jb