beta3designs
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Hi there!
I have a Nvidia Quadro 4000 I have to say I'm an engineering student and therefore a future engineer, I've read this card is very good for CFD's, structural analysis, etc. The thing is I am also interested in 3d graphics and at the moment that's what I do in my free time, rendering 3d images takes usually very long but with the actual GPU technology it is getting faster and faster. With my quadro 4000 I can render complex scenes in a decent time but I think having a GTX 680 would be much faster speaking about rendering but I am unsure on how it would perform in some engineering tasks.
So I can't decide myself I don't know if it is a good change or if I will regret it in the future because maybe Quadro 4000 is more powerful for engineering. Besides that, I don't know if it would be as easy as changing the graphics card or maybe I would need a new power supply?
I would like to have some advice so I can decide what to do: keep my Q4000 or change it to a GTX 680?
The whole specs are:
Gigabyte GA H - 55 - M 1333 DDR-800DUAL SATA PCI-e
Intel i7-2600 @ 3.4Ghz
Ball Bearing Fan Extra Low Noise
Dimm Memory RAM 16Gb DDR3 1333 Kingston
2Tb HDD Maxtor/Seagate Barracuda IV UltraDMA Serial ATA 7200rpm
GPU Nvidia Quadro 4000 2gb DDR5
Sound Card Audio Ac'97 7.1 Channels Surround
and some extras.
Thanks in advance!
I have a Nvidia Quadro 4000 I have to say I'm an engineering student and therefore a future engineer, I've read this card is very good for CFD's, structural analysis, etc. The thing is I am also interested in 3d graphics and at the moment that's what I do in my free time, rendering 3d images takes usually very long but with the actual GPU technology it is getting faster and faster. With my quadro 4000 I can render complex scenes in a decent time but I think having a GTX 680 would be much faster speaking about rendering but I am unsure on how it would perform in some engineering tasks.
So I can't decide myself I don't know if it is a good change or if I will regret it in the future because maybe Quadro 4000 is more powerful for engineering. Besides that, I don't know if it would be as easy as changing the graphics card or maybe I would need a new power supply?
I would like to have some advice so I can decide what to do: keep my Q4000 or change it to a GTX 680?
The whole specs are:
Gigabyte GA H - 55 - M 1333 DDR-800DUAL SATA PCI-e
Intel i7-2600 @ 3.4Ghz
Ball Bearing Fan Extra Low Noise
Dimm Memory RAM 16Gb DDR3 1333 Kingston
2Tb HDD Maxtor/Seagate Barracuda IV UltraDMA Serial ATA 7200rpm
GPU Nvidia Quadro 4000 2gb DDR5
Sound Card Audio Ac'97 7.1 Channels Surround
and some extras.
Thanks in advance!
