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Superfinicky · June 22nd, 2008

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Originally Posted by AJLynn

Don't misinform in my thread. I've done the research on this, and seen the bugs myself. Revit users should stay far away from Geforce cards. Radeon cards have bugs of their own, which is why Max users usually shouldn't buy them, but FireGL cards are solid.

You'll have to excuse my ignorance, but in my experience, all ATI cards are wonderful...for gaming. If you want to get serious about rapid prototyping and/or design/rendering, NVIDIA is what you want.

AJLynn · June 22nd, 2008

I do excuse your ignorance. But you can't generalize like that. I've been through this extensively, seen the bugs myself, the AUGI people making those recommendations have a lot of experience and I've ben told the same by friends who are Revit developers. In the case of Revit users, the best video card is a FireGL. It's almost undisputed among Revit experts.

I suspect you haven't spent much time with a FireGL card. I've been using them for 3 years. They are excellent at running Max, C4D, Sketchup, Revit, AutoCAD, Maya and Rhino. XP32 and 64. I have never experienced a bug with any FireGL card except a V3100, which was a pretty bad card.

JonRashid · June 23rd, 2008

The Sapphire HD 3870 X2 gives you dual core processing and at a really affordable price. DirectX 10 support. I dont know about other package but works great with Max and AutoCad. Is there a better power per pound card about? And it's ATI!

June 22nd, 2008	#12 (permalink)
AJLynn Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Beantown Age: 29 Posts: 4,235 Name: Andrew Lynn	Re: Sticky: Video card buying advice I do excuse your ignorance. But you can't generalize like that. I've been through this extensively, seen the bugs myself, the AUGI people making those recommendations have a lot of experience and I've ben told the same by friends who are Revit developers. In the case of Revit users, the best video card is a FireGL. It's almost undisputed among Revit experts. I suspect you haven't spent much time with a FireGL card. I've been using them for 3 years. They are excellent at running Max, C4D, Sketchup, Revit, AutoCAD, Maya and Rhino. XP32 and 64. I have never experienced a bug with any FireGL card except a V3100, which was a pretty bad card.

June 23rd, 2008	#13 (permalink)
JonRashid Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Anglesey Posts: 82 Name: Jon Rashid	Re: Sticky: Video card buying advice The Sapphire HD 3870 X2 gives you dual core processing and at a really affordable price. DirectX 10 support. I dont know about other package but works great with Max and AutoCad. Is there a better power per pound card about? And it's ATI!

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