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Posted at 5:50 PM on Friday 03/19/10 by
Ben
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MWave has the ATI Fire GL V7700 512MB PCI-E DualDVI Video Card (100-505505) for $170 with free shipping. Discounted price with free "M" Club membership. Optimized and certified for CAD and DCC applications. [Compare]
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    goldenboyfx - Posted 8:23 am PDT 03/20/10 (1343 Posts)  Report Spam

    It is true that these custom cad chips offer better performance than their *consumer* counterparts from the same generation but they are way overpriced since the market is too small.
    Any Gtx 260 or 5770 will wipe the floor with this card running cad...AND offer much higher detailed wireframes due to the extra onboard ram.

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    Casecutter - Posted 2:17 pm PDT 03/20/10 (5011 Posts)  Report Spam

    This is an R600 chip and don't have the exact spec's on a V7700 (well at least in this comparison) it looks to be probably like a 3870. Sure if you had Fire GL or Quadro drivers that worked with those newer cards they might, but there in lies the problem they aren't certified for them so compatibility and operation is like going to cause issues, and that something real business users don't want to chance.
    http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=540&card2=546

    Professional businesses programs like SolidWorks, Seisworks, or Wolfram (almost no one uses AutoCad) are actually paying for the drivers and the qualification that partners certify such drivers for their programs. While the card manufactures don't expressly provide any warranties or support services to end user of the drivers, that is why they work with the software companies (partners). It's not anything like the relationships for gaming card where ATI/Nvidia release the driver for there customers not so much the gaming houses.

    There similar apples, but one is turned into great tasting fritters the other a nice pie. Two totally different recipes.

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    Anonymous - Posted 7:49 am PDT 03/21/10 (16776936 Posts)  Report Spam

    Hey sexless wonder...You are great at run-on sentences and dropped words, ever thought of one of those refresher classes for retards? Screw you and that dopey "apples" metaphor by the way rodeo cowboy.

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    Casecutter - Posted 8:11 pm PDT 03/21/10 (5011 Posts)  Report Spam

    The difference I'm saying something that that was ask for. You on the other hand are the one that sounds frustrated! Thanks for spending your pathetic life checking on what I post... a day later. Sorry for not being up to my usual standards of writing on Saturday, but the wife and I had a night out. The kids were at a friends. Cool

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