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digiart
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| Whats a awsome 3d card for digital art, 3d,etc.... |
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newt
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2000 1:49 pm |
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If you're only working in Photoshop or Painter, there isn't much difference. Any board with 16MB RAM should be sufficient.
For 3d work - I'd go with one of the GeForce chipsets. The speed up viewport redraw quite a bit (I use one for 3d Studio Max myself, and I've been happy with it.) The GeForce2 chipset is very fast, plus you can play games (if that's important at all).
After that there's the professional quality ones, which cost a lot more - Oxygen boards, Quadro, Wildcat etc. But the cost can be $500-$2000.
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Rob M
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2000 1:59 pm |
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Mmmmmmmmmmm...Quadro...
nVIDIA rules, those guys really know how to make a video card. My past 3 cards have all been nVIDIA (Riva TNT-->GeForce DDR-->GeForce2 GTS). |
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coconutmonkey
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2000 3:26 pm |
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| I bought my geforce2 64meg DDR for around $300 a few months ago and it works great for 3d art and animation. I've used it on 3dsmax 2.5 and 3 and the framerates are great and I've never had a problem with texture memory. It also handles LOTS of polygons really well. I could really tell a difference moving from a voodoo2 to this. |
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surferboi
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eetu
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2000 2:07 am |
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yea the nvidia chipsets rule.
3dlabs cards tend to have the best openGL drivers though.
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Frost
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2000 5:52 am |
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*cough* matrox *cough*
sorry, I had to. =) |
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Anthony
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2000 9:03 am |
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quote:
Originally posted by digiart:
Whats a awsome 3d card for digital art, 3d,etc....
I have a GeForce I converted to a Quadro via soldering. It's 32mb, and is extremely quick in MAX and other 3d apps. If you'd like to buy that, email me.
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-Anthony
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