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these are suppose to be good for 3d CAD, etc.
Anyone?
They work great on 2D cad also
Yes, the hardware is not high end for 3D, it's roughly equivalent to a Radeon 4670. But they supposedly have drivers optimized for OpenGL and will do a better job of rendering overlapping structures and curves than a standard gaming graphics card. I've used both for 3D modeling and can't tell that much of a difference to be honest, but this is a decent price for that card, though not an incredible deal. You can find this card for about $100 at Amazon.
What does it have on 2D over, say, an onboard video chip ?
Probably not much, but I guess it depends on the onboard video. Its main purpose is to render 3D objects on your 2D screen. If you're looking at fine detail on a rendered model, a gaming card might not handle the lines exactly right so that you can't see exactly what you doing (supposedly, again I haven't noted much difference) but these cards should render the model more precisely because of better drivers, etc.