Advice for a computer

The best analogy I found on here is: it;s kinda like comparing a tractor to a Lamborghini. The cards used for gaming are like the lambo, great for short bursts of speed and agility. Cards used for CAD and other programs like it are like the tractor, great for the long haul. Yeah the lambo has 400hp, but would you tow 5 tons of logs or whatever with it?
 
ADE said:
CAD= Computer aided Design. That take a lot of memory from a card to shoes all the details of the thing in which you you designing. Like a building.
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Yup, it was just a misunderstanding.

ADE said:
and the one card I talked about before is HORRIBLE FOR GAMING! But is really good for CAD. The GPU on that card is equivalent in gaming wise to an FX5500 GPU, but is still one of the best CAD cards out there. So from that I think that CAD must not be a very GPU intensive application, but a memory intensive application.
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The card you were talking about, I assume you meant the Quadro FX 5500 (currently the newest one i think) uses the G71 core, with all 24 pixel pipelines enabled. However, instead of using GDDR3 ram like the 7900GTX, it uses slower GDDR2 ram, 1 gig of it. So, it wouldn't be horrible for gaming like the (GeForce) FX5500, which is HORRIBLE (from personal experience ;)).

Also, CAD programs do not only require a massive chunk of memory, or else they'd be slapping 2gigs of memory onto 7300le's :)
 
For what I'd be doing, well its as I said, probably mostly some basic stuff, with some gaming... Can't really garantee that I won't fall back into some more intense gaming if I have a computer which can actually do that, but then again as I said, I don't play the most demanding games on the market.

And then, as I said for the video card, well I believe it concerns that, if I want to plug 2 monitors, what kind of video card should I get ?

Btw I have read the RAM 101, PSU 101, Mobo 101, etc. and although I have learned a lot, there is still plenty I don't quite understand, that is why I am still asking questions.
 
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Well, how much money would you like to spend on one? a $100 card at the most is all your really need, and even that would be more than you need :)
 
Not too sure what % of my budget should go on a card... but as I said, about 1000 CAD is what I'd like, but I am also conscient that since its Canadian dollars, it could very well go up to 1500.
 
Kilauea said:
For what I'd be doing, well its as I said, probably mostly some basic stuff, with some gaming... Can't really garantee that I won't fall back into some more intense gaming if I have a computer which can actually do that, but then again as I said, I don't play the most demanding games on the market.

And then, as I said for the video card, well I believe it concerns that, if I want to plug 2 monitors, what kind of video card should I get ?

Btw I have read the RAM 101, PSU 101, Mobo 101, etc. and although I have learned a lot, there is still plenty I don't quite understand, that is why I am still asking questions.
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If you want to do some light gaming once in a while, then the 7600gt should be very nice for you, as it only cost about $100.

Just about any card today can handle 2 monitors, so you really don't have to worry about that.
 
The system I put together earlier would be fine for you. If you find it starting to respond a little slower than you would like, try putting another gig of ram in there. If you really feel like spending your max of 1500CAD, you can upgrade the system to:

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115003

RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231098

But these are things that you can have upgraded later on if you'd wish. If all you're going to be doing is surfing and playing a couple of games and maybe some Office documents while listening to iTunes, I think you;d be happy with the previous system....I dunno, I might spend the extra 80 bux on another gig of ram to make me happy:P
 
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