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    Nvidia FX 580

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by bennetts09, Mar 7, 2010.

  1. bennetts09

    bennetts09 Newbie

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    I am a student doing work mainly on photoshop ,autocad and sketchup
    my laptop is not good for these, i was thinking of geting a Vidock 2 with a quadro fx 580, would this work? any conflicts with fx 580 and vidock?
    any advice is welcome
    thanks
     
    bennetts09, Mar 7, 2010
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  2. naton

    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    before you go and spend money on a new laptop what are the specs of your present one?

    I have been using autocad/photoshop/max for almost 10 years with poor and or integrated graphics cards and I've never had any problems. I means yes having a professional graphics card helps but it's not a must and it is not worth the inversment (£1k to £2k) in particular when you're a student.
     
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    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    u don't really need 1-2K... u can easily get a great laptop for under 1K pounds... and OP , ur really better off getting a new laptop especially since DIY Vidock isn't portable and u need an external monitor... which really kills the purpose of ur laptop unless ur using it as a desktop replacement...
     
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  4. Johnny T

    Johnny T Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    No point in getting a workstation GPU for those applications especially at student level. Contrary to popular believe, a decent GPU (or dedicated GPU) is not a necessity for photoshop. It can help for certain functions, but it's not a "life and death" difference if you don't have it.
     
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    bennetts09 Newbie

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    that card is not for photoshop and autocad mainly for skechup, i just want it to be compatable. I have alot of lag in sketchup it is affecting productivity. herd quadro was good for 3-d like sketchup

    i have a sony viao
    2.53 dual core processer
    ati mobility 3540 card maybe?
    4 gigs ram
    7200 hdd
     
    bennetts09, Mar 9, 2010
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  6. naton

    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    Your laptop is not the problem here. Sketchup is the problem since it doesn't offer any support for multi-core CPUs.

    You can read more about this here

    A professional graphics card is suitable for rendering and rendering only and this regardeless of the 3D software in use. To display the objects on the screen any card would do even an integrated intel i852

    Why don't you do like me. Group you objects in sketchup and hide those that you've alredy modeled?


    P.S.
    sean473 Can you point me to a laptop with a Professional 3D card for under £1k as I can't seem to find any.
     
    naton, Mar 10, 2010
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  7. sean473

    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    lol... you can find one with a quadro card under 1K but don't expect FX3800M... u'd get one of the crapier cards... even a gaming card is cheaper and can do the job so why not use that...
     
    sean473, Mar 11, 2010
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  8. naton

    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    A laptop with a quadro NVS (suiatble for 2D only) yes but not with a quadro FX which is suitable 3D.

    I won't call any card 'crap' as you get what you pay for, and every card serves a different purpose.
     
    naton, Mar 11, 2010
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