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AJLynn · February 11th, 2008

Matt: I'd suggest you try the Core 2 series chips instead of the Pentium D. The Core 2 is far faster, using less power, and in all the tests I've seen it a Core 2 Quad Q6600 outperforms all of the AMD quad line.

Tay: OpenGL is faster for AutoCAD versions previous to 2008, when they added Direct3D support. Now it's just a price-per-performance issue and unless you need the extremely high end support the Quadro is too expensive to make sense.

February 11th, 2008	#7 (permalink)
AJLynn Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Beantown Age: 30 Posts: 4,550 Name: Andrew Lynn	Re: First time my build own PC Matt: I'd suggest you try the Core 2 series chips instead of the Pentium D. The Core 2 is far faster, using less power, and in all the tests I've seen it a Core 2 Quad Q6600 outperforms all of the AMD quad line. Tay: OpenGL is faster for AutoCAD versions previous to 2008, when they added Direct3D support. Now it's just a price-per-performance issue and unless you need the extremely high end support the Quadro is too expensive to make sense.