I am upgradeing my graphics card and was hoping for some advice on the following card that was proposed by our IT company.
I'm using ACA 2013
Operating system is Windows 7 Professional SP1
Intel Xeon CPU E5507 @ 2.27Ghz RAM 10GB
The card is EVGA GeForce GTX 670 Graphic Card - 1006 MHz Core - 4 GB GDDR5 SDRAM - PCI-Express 3.0 x16 6008 MHz Memory Clock - 2560 x 1600 - SLI - Fan Cooler - DirectCompute 5.0, OpenGL 4.2, OpenCL, DirectX 11.0 - HDMI - DisplayPort – DVI
Thanks in advance
Todd
Hi,
I'm sure you will receive plenty of feedback and opinions on this topic as everyone has had different experiences with graphic cards and the overall workstation configuration. I just want to point out the Autodesk Certified Hardware site which has a listing of systems and graphic cards tested with Autodesk products.
I hope this helps.
Cheers,
Volker
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Your card appears to be a gaming card not a workstation CAD card such as the Quadro line. However it should work fine with ACA. I am using a GTX570 and it works well. Supposedly the Quadro line (NVidea) or equiv from AMD have more advanced drivers specifically for CAD but I recently bought a Quadro 2000 for a new machine only to find out the specific drivers for Autocad had been dropped since I think the 2011 release. I think this is because Acad now uses the DirectX windows path rather than separate specialist drivers (they used to use Heidi). If this is confusing don't worry, I don't know enough to talk authoratatively anyway and Adesk are not very helpful in making all this understood. Others have said over the years they have got good performance out of Quadro, but perhaps before the driver change. You will get more grunt from a faster CPU IMHO. You might want to peruse the hardware NG for more qualified info.