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    Heidi

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    Benefit from a "professional" video card for 2D AutoCAD?

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    08-21-2011 11:44 AM

    I'm mostly working with 2D autocad, very rarely I use 3D, and even then its nothing complicated. I'm currently running ATI Radeon HD5450 low profile video card (its a slim desktop case). I was looking at some workstation/pro cards, and it seems that ATI/AMD have a few video cards available for $100-$150 range that are low profile as well.

    Theres the AMD FirePro 2270 and FirePro V3800 - apparently the 2270 has DX11 and OpenGL 4.2 vs DX11 and OpenGL 3.2 on V3800. But I think V3800 is a faster card? Not much information can be found on the internet.

    In any case, am I going to see any benefit if I upgrade to one of those? And which one should I go with?

    Thanks in advance.

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    Re: Benefit from a "professional" video card for 2D AutoCAD?

    10-27-2011 12:25 PM in reply to: ochdx

    Waste of money for 2D: buy a higher processor speed  of your chosen chipset and much more RAM, Win7 Pro 64bit if your AutoCAD is current, and avoid motherboard-based video cards from Intel.

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