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    FX2700m worth the money?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ctown30, Jun 17, 2009.

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    Hey everyone, I am going be in mechanical engineering at college next year and I was just wandering if it the fx2700m 512mb is worth the money? I have also been looking at a gateway 7805u with a 9800m gts with 1gb but I dont know why the quadro is so much more. They say it is good for CAD and things, which I will be doing alot of work in so what do I do? Does the 9800gts handle the 3d applications just as well?
     
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    Basically as far as for an engineering student, what is the better laptop - Gateway 7805u, upgraded processor 2.9ghz, 1gb 9800gts, 4gb ram...or...HP 8730w, 2.53ghz proc, 512mb fx2700m, 2gb ram...both for bout the same price after upgrading the gateway?
     
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    Basicly Quadro has better performance in OPENGL applications than GeForce series. I have Quadro FX 3700M/2700M 9800M/8800M GTX, i can do some benchs to compare the difference.
     
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