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cadlabsreview The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 is an ultrahigh-end PCIe graphics card based on the G80GL GPU and has 1.5 GB of GDDR3 memory onboard. is a double-width card, requiring two slots in your system, though it’s only connected to a single PCIe x16 slot. The Quadro FX 5600 is a full-length card — a rarity these days. I had to be sure that the test system could accommodate both the full length of the card and the power requirements. The FX 5600 requires two power connectors and draws a remarkable 171 W in operation. If you’re considering the Quadro FX 5600, you’ll want to make sure your system has the requisite power connectors available, as well as a system power supply that’s beefy enough to accommodate the power demands of the card. Not all PDF and DWF Files are Created Equal higher quality and smaller size PDF files. with AutoCAD’s native Direct3D drivers, even without the availability of specific driver tweaks for AutoCAD. On the MAXBench4 benchmark running in Autodesk 3ds Max 9, I obtained an averaged high/low frame rate score of 111.95 with Max 9’s native OpenGL driver and 224.51 with its native Direct3D driver. No specific accelerated driver is available for Autodesk 3ds Max, nor are specific optimizations available at the base driver level. For the last round of testing, I ran the SPECViewperf 10 benchmark, generating a score of 15.56 for 3dsmax-04, 15.75 for catia-02, 23.17 for ensight-03, 29.16 for maya-02, 11.16 for proe-04, 22.73 for sw-01, 6.86 for tcvis-01, and 14.7 for ugnx-01 — all with the default 3D settings and with vertical sync turned off, as I typically do for all tests. The Viper ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics card carries an estimated street price of $429.99 and a two-year warranty. The card ships with two DVI-toVGA converters, a component HDTV adapter, a 9-pin VIVO adapter, a DVIto-HDMI adapter, and a CrossFire bridge interconnect. Diamond’s Viper ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 1024 MB offers 1 GB of DDR4 onboard RAM and 320 unified stream processors. audio, is through a dongle). Features include 320 unified stream processors, high-speed 128-bit HDR rendering, physics processing support, and up to 24x custom filter anti-aliasing. The Viper ATI Radeon HD 2900 will drive two monitors at resolutions of 2,560 x 1,600 at 50 Hz (digital) or 2,048 x 1,526 at 85 Hz (analog). I elected to run the Viper ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT through the full set of benchmarks. Tests were completed using driver v.8.361.0.0 (4/1/2007). With AutoCAD 2008 running the C2006 benchmark, I got total index scores of 211 using the native AutoCAD OpenGL drivers and 228 AutoCAD 2000 - 2008 Compatible Batch Creation of PDF, DWF, or Images Automatic Bookmark Creation Custom File Naming Options Create a PDF from any Windows Application Try it free for 30 days. http://www.cadzation.com http://www.cadzation.com

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Contents Editor's Window Cad Central Tech Trends: First-Hand Architecture in Second Life Rev It Up — Graphics Cards Pack Power for Today’s Hottest Designs TurboCAD Pro 14 — 3D Modeling Software SimEnterprise R2 — Design Simulation Software CADopia 6.2 SP3 Professional Edition — 2D and 3D Modeling Software Cad Manager: Programming Resources for CAD Managers MCAD Modeling: Customer Service Horror Stories PLM Strategies: Manufacturing Across Time Zones AEC in Focus: Digital-Asset Management in AEC/O Cad Cartoon Issue Indexes Cadfidential

Cadalyst - October 2007

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