freakishflyer50 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 At present I have a i7 3.4ghz processor , GeForce GT 420 graphics card. 16gb ram and find that my computer cannot cope with the software, it stutters and takes and age just to turn the 3D drawing around , even creating the 3D house takes an age. I'm thinking of changing my graphics card to a NVidia Quadro K4000 designed for 3D modelling. I am also using Turbo CAD Pro, Would this card be good enough for the job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen_Brown Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 I would stick with the nVidea GeForce cards. Although some people have good luck with the cad cards, Chief Architect has stated many times that their program works BEST with cards designed for video games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebdesign Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 You'll be much happier w/ NVidia GeForce GTX780 for half the $$$. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Make sure you get at least 2GB Ram on the GeForce - preferably 3GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen_Brown Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 BTW, my desktop unit that I built from scratch has a GTX 480 (Second fastest at time of build), and it still is a SMOKIN' FAST machine with X6. My laptop, which I had built by Sager, has a GTX 680M. Both units have 2 SATA hard drives and a SSD for the operating system, so are fairly comparable. However, my desktop unit still performs faster when recording walkthroughs with the older 480. We're talking a frame rate of 0.14 to 0.16 seconds per frame recording time. My laptop is about twice the time. Even that though, is a HUGE improvement over a couple versions ago, where I was seeing 4-5 seconds per frame recording time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakishflyer50 Posted March 6, 2014 Author Share Posted March 6, 2014 thanks for all the advice. I will have a look at the GTX cards. Just one other question does the mother board play a part in this , bus speeds etc? Its a Cleveland GL-8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Chief has always said a Gaming card works better than those Quadro cards. I love my gtx780. You can spin with shadows on in real time even before X6 with fast shadows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug_Park Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Look here: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html On paper the GTX780 is half the price and twice the performance of the K4000. The K4000 will probably perform OK and looks to be a significant step up, but you are paying a premium price for less than premium performance. I recently upgraded my old i7 desktop to a 780 and it works very well with Chief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD56 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 You need to be sure of a couple of items when buying a card in addition to the chip vendor. The 780 is a dual slot full length card and depending on where your PCIe slot is you might not have the room to fit it in. Also, you really want to install it in a PCIe 3.0 16x slot for best perfromance. Finally, it requires a lot of power from th power supply so you need to be sure; 1 - that your PS is big enough to support it (most likely 600 + W PS) and that you have a connector from the PS for the card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakishflyer50 Posted March 7, 2014 Author Share Posted March 7, 2014 Thanks for the info, I will open the computer this weekend and have a look at sizes etc. That chart on the "bench marks" does open your eyes, great help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug_Park Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 That is correct. The 780 barely fit into my box. The length was the tight bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Check out Perry's settings in the Nvidia Drivers Thread when you get your card , hadn't occurred to me that software rendering is on by default too.... M. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/321-nvidia-driver-settings/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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