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Video Card HELP!

Rblaque — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 16:12:47 GMT

Sorry, i did search this but came up with some ambiguous and out of date information

Im building a second desktop machine for one of our engineers and I am by no means a hardware guru. We will be running Product Design Suite Ultimate 2016. My roadblock seems to be what video card to use. Ive heard the Quadro line isnt necassarily the best route even though it is recommended by Autodesk.

We run some pretty robust 1000+ part assemblies ......ive added a screenshot of a typical assembly

Can someone give me some experienced input on a card?? Make it easy.........just give me a no brainer Model Number so i can just go order this thing and stop yanking my hair out LOL

Re: Video Card HELP!

mcgyvr — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 16:36:12 GMT

Get a decent ($250-450) Nvidia Geforce GTX series card.. (970/980 or so)

You can pick up a 970 for around $340 or so..

Re: Video Card HELP!

Rblaque — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 18:43:02 GMT

Thanks man......i appreciate the feedback, .btw money is no object lol. Ill hear more flack if my machine runs slow than i will for raising the cost of the video card

Re: Video Card HELP!

mcgyvr — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:28:19 GMT

Money is always an object

But you should do just fine with a card like that..

Fast processor "core" speed/ plenty of RAM/quick data access speeds (SSD/fast network) are really critical..

Re: Video Card HELP!

blair — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 02:00:45 GMT

To add to "mcgyvr's" post, go for the fastest "gamming" machine your budget allows. The one problem with Inventor is that within the modeling environment, Inventor can only use a single core of the CPU. So if your work is primarily assembly, go with the fastest clock CPU you can get. If you do FEA and Rendering, then Inventor will use all the cores you can throw at it.

The graphics card is only used within the modelling window to rotate, pan and zoom the model. A really fast Nvida GeForce 900 series and faster card will do.

Re: Video Card HELP!

Rblaque — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:33:50 GMT

Thanks so much...........great info

Re: Video Card HELP!

Rblaque — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:24:34 GMT

Heres the build..........Look Good?

Custom Order PC including:

Thermaltake chassis with EVGA 850 Watt power supply,

Asus motherboard, Intel Core i7 CPU at 4.0Ghz,

Crucial 500G SSD, 32G DDR3 memory,

DVDRW, Nvidia GTX980 by Gigabyte, Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64bit.

$1860

Re: Video Card HELP!

blair — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:38:41 GMT

Looks good, I've been using that graphics card for at least a year and really like it.