New Year, New computer....

sketchymick

Hey Mick, actually I this CPU was quoted to me a little while ago so I should ask about a the i7 3930.
From what it seems the Quadro cards are priced to target professional CAD users where as the GTX cards perform just as well if not better for what SU needs as you'll see by the links I provided.

Don't get me wrong, what you have looks good - I was just wondering if there was something particular that swung your decision, as it's pretty hard trying to make a decision with all the choices out there. Having looked at it more, I think the 3820 isn't really a great option, so for me it seems its between the 2600 and 3930.

With the video card, I figure that I can always buy something like the gtx580 and if it doesn't work out for me then I'm sure someone will buy it off me for a reasonable price, but not sure I could say the same for the quadro. As a side note, it seems the gtx580 is being discontinued... so is already old

Cheers

Mick

utiler

Thanks for that, Mick. I'll ask my tech guys whats hot in cards at the moment....

sketchymick

@utiler said:

Thanks for that, Mick. I'll ask my tech guys whats hot in cards at the moment....

I'd be interested to hear what they say. From what I can work out the new gtx680 is the pick of them (less wattage, more triangles per sec), but I had a look online and there seems to be a lot of "out of stock" here in Oz, so not that confident of grabbing a cheap one any time soon.

Just to keep the door open on this topic.... I have yet to find anyone who actually has used both the quadro2000 and gtx580 and can offer any first hand comments.

Cheers

Mick

utiler

@sketchymick said:

"out of stock" here in Oz,

You sounded a little Aussie, Mick!!! Must be the way we write posts...

sketchymick

Hey Utiler, yep aussie and proud of it

Any advice from your tech gurus?

I can't believe the amount of on-going debate all over the internet regarding Quadros and GTX's, even for apparently quadro optimised software.

Cheers

Mick

utiler

Hey Mick, we just bought a new system in the office. This is what we went for:

i7 2600
16Gb RAM
Nvidia GTX 580
240Gb SSD

And it really hums!!!!

utiler

Ok, it's time to buys again.... The one we bought a month of so ago is a beauty but even in that short time things go out of date.

The GTX 580 is obsolete; the 680 is apparently the current pick.
The i7 3930 is the top end processor (apparently) although the Xeon E5 series are the next step up....
RAM is cheap as chips so maybe 24mb...?

Any news that I should know about before spec'ing up a new piece?
BTW, we bought an AOC 27" 3D screen which seems pretty good although I do like to stay with Samsung (only because I have always had them...) any others you have good things to say about?

Cheers,

notareal

The GTX 580 is is far from obsolete if you are going to use it for cuda calculations, it will beat 680 that is actually heavily optimized for games. Before all nvidia cards tend to play better for GPGPU, if they where "latest", now the game has changed.

utiler

Maybe obsolete was not the right term notareal.... rather old stock. [well here in Australia anyway...]

sketchymick

Hi utiler... I added an update on my build at http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=45071&p=414555#p414555, partially in response to this thread but thought it probably belonged better there.

Cheers

Mick

utiler

Cheers Mick!