PNY Quadro FX 1000

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Anyone happen to have one? I'm wondering how it compares to a GeForce FX 6800. Any experience would be helpful...
Tas.

 

[dug777]

guy below me is much smarter, listen to him

 

[mwmorph]

MUCH slower. Wont be nearly as fast due to drivers/bios.
reflash it though and it'll work fine.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2335&p=8
as shown here, even the monster fx4000 is taking a performance hit.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I have a 6800 GT OC right now, and I'm thinking about gettng a PNY Quadro FX 1000. In all honesty, I enjoy rendering more than I do games, but I don't want to completely give up my games either.
Tas.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
I have a 6800 GT OC right now, and I'm thinking about gettng a PNY Quadro FX 1000. In all honesty, I enjoy rendering more than I do games, but I don't want to completely give up my games either.
Tas.

i see what you mean, its abit of a PITA, cant really keep reflashing everytime u wanna do gaming or something

the only simple solution to gaming and cad is to have 2 machines, though surely a normal gaming 6800 isnt all that bad at rendering is it?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Well, compared to a FX 1000, yea. You would be amazed at how much Maxtreme helps with the viewports. And with the new stuff they have in 7, the stuff you can do with the materials and all. And I kind of find it hard to justify the existence of my machine just running SETI and playing games every once in a while. I have to render to get the use of this computer.
Tas.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Workstation cards have always had pretty craptastic gaming performance. They're about rendering precisely, not quickly. I'd probably be able to do stuff at lower settings, but don't expect much from it.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Yeah. I have a Quadro 4 900 XGL. And I was gaming with that until my wife bought me a 6800 GT OC (she loves me!!). But I'm considering getting a FX 1000, and it should be a heck of a lot faster gaming that the 900 XGL. And I'd be able to render stuff normally again. Ugh, this sucks. I will probably just get it anyway, and save both for when I get another machine built for her, and put the gaming card in that one, and use the server for rendering. And I'll see if I can use the Quadro FX card for gaming. If not, then I'll save it for later.... Thanks for ya'lls info...
Tas.

 

[mwmorph]

do yuo think a system overhaul is in order? if you get a new mb with 2 pci-e slots, plug in both cards and use then without the sli connector.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

But then you are taking away from the gaming card. You are either running one at 16X and the other at 4X PCI-E. I have a dual Xeon board. The 800MHz FSB Xeon mobos have PCI-E, but nothing setup for something like SLI. And you have to think, it would be about $2000 for a system overhaul. Mobo is about $500, two Xeon procs ($1200), 2GB RAM (another $500 atleast), and then a new video card as well. Ugh, way too much money. I'd rather keep this one for rendering, and then build another gaming machine. That is what I decided to do. But I refuse to give up this case, no matter what. I worked too hard for it.
Tas.

 

[mwmorph]

i believe with a nforce ultra board, you can run both at 8x(16x gives no performance boost in games right now because games dont actually utilitize all the bandwith).

I thought you could reuse all the components in your current rig so it wont cost too much more.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

But the Nforce ultra board don't use Xeon's. The only hardware I could transfer over to a system like that is two hard drives and the video card. Maybe a power supply.
Tas.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

i thought cpu power played more of a role in rendering?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

well, there are two parts to rendering. Setting up the scenes, and then the actual creation of the video, aka rendering. It's the first step, when you are setting up the scenes, and you have to deal with the geometry of complex scenes is when a rendering card will beat the pants off of a gaming card any day. The rest is all up to your processors, how many you have, and memory...
Tas.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
I have a 6800 GT OC right now, and I'm thinking about gettng a PNY Quadro FX 1000. In all honesty, I enjoy rendering more than I do games, but I don't want to completely give up my games either.
Tas.

i see what you mean, its abit of a PITA, cant really keep reflashing everytime u wanna do gaming or something

the only simple solution to gaming and cad is to have 2 machines, though surely a normal gaming 6800 isnt all that bad at rendering is it?

You could also get an SLI motherboard and run out of SLI mode, best of both worlds.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

But then I would have to give up my processors... I like having 4 logical processors!!! You wouldn't believe how I can multitask.
Tas.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
But the Nforce ultra board don't use Xeon's. The only hardware I could transfer over to a system like that is two hard drives and the video card. Maybe a power supply.
Tas.

You could always go dual core athlon or P4-D and sell the xeons and board, then use Nforce SLI to utilize both graphics cards. Both of those should be handily outperformed by the new dual core chips anyway.

You would also need new memory, but it's dirt cheap right now anyway.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
But then I would have to give up my processors... I like having 4 logical processors!!! You wouldn't believe how I can multitask.
Tas.

I would surmise that you are not utilizing the HT on those CPUs unless you do more than one rendering project at once. Not to mention the P4-D is not as bandwidth starved as the xeons, and the X-2 is in a league of its own with the on-die memory controller.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

True, but then I run into one other problem. I am getting a 8-port SATA PCI-X RAID controller. I have a 23 bay case. If I get something that limits me to PCI only, then that really kills what I can put in as far as RAID controllers. Basically, I'm stuck with servers. I just would like to be able to do some gaming as well.
Tas.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Actually, rendering takes advantage of all of the processors. Granted it doesn't max them out, but I've rendered two sessions at once, and my processor usage was about 93%. However, I have the command line version of SETI, and that runs all of my processors at 100% all of the time. Now if only I could get Berkeley to pay for the $50 a month electric bill of running my server 24/7, I'd be alright.
Tas.

 

[Acanthus]

I would say 2 PCs is your only option then, one for work, one for play.

You can easily put together a value A64 system just for gaming for under $800.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I agree.... I think I'll build the wife a gaming machine for Christmas. *eg*.
Tas.