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Subject: Ahhhh... new Video card for my desktop..

Reddog9 opened this issue on Jul 23, 2007 · 4 posts
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Reddog9 ( ) posted Mon, 23 July 2007 at 9:12 PM · edited Fri, 25 October 2024 at 1:55 PM

Since my monitor went up in smoke a few months ago and took my motherboard with it,  I made an upgrade and replaced it with one that had an AGP slot.  

I got an ATI card several years ago, which lacks to say the least.  

Today, I got some pay back from someone who owed me some money, so I headed out to look for a card to fill that AGP slot.  I was determined to go with an Nvidia card this time and I found one that fit the bill.  

PNY - Nvidia GeForce FX5200
256mb , AGP 
$90 at Best Buy.  

Works fantastic.  Blender works great with it too.  

I've been using my laptop since my desktop went down.  It has an onboard integrated Intel Extreme Graphics II (I believe that's correct).  Blender works great on that too, but the Nvidia has it beat now.  

Just curious what everyone else is using?  

Wish the Blender Site had some kind of user-generated list going with what works and what doesn't.  

Scott

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DramaKing ( ) posted Tue, 24 July 2007 at 12:16 AM · edited Tue, 24 July 2007 at 12:20 AM

That's why you should always have a fire extinguisher handy by your computer :)

Now I thought that the viewport OpenGL rendering worked off the graphics card. Where does the video card come in?

Oh, and I'm using an Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 graphics card. Cheers :)

It is better to do one thing well, than to do many things and excel at nothing.

Gog ( ) posted Tue, 24 July 2007 at 4:46 AM

Dramaking, Video card  = Graphics Card, different names for the same thing...

I'm currently using a Radeon 9700 Pro in the desktop and intel 945GM in the lappie.

Both work ok in windoze, but things seem the most stable in Linux on the desktop. 

as an aside since the last thread we had on linux I've switched from Suse 10 to Ubuntu 7, it's fast, stable and looks pretty - only using windoze for the occaisional game (although quake 4 and warhammer Dawn of War series work in Ubuntu, civ 4 doesn't want to play properly yet, I wish more companies were like ID (Quake creators) and actually released Linux installers for their products.

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Toolset: Blender, GIMP, Indigo Render, LuxRender, TopMod, Knotplot, Ivy Gen, Plant Studio.

l3la ( ) posted Tue, 24 July 2007 at 8:27 PM · edited Tue, 24 July 2007 at 8:28 PM

I have a Quadro FX 1000. Got a used Dell workstation with this pro CAD card and 2 @ Xeon's for only $450.

I use a Radeon 9600M on my laptop at work and this system beats it by a factor of 5 for rendering and interactive OpenGL display - depending on the app - but Blender especially.

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