# Computer guys...look this over **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 6, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-guys-look-this-over/259816 "2011-08-06T18:23:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![Shady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Shady](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shady)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 8:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-guys-look-this-over/259816/16 "2011-08-08T08:20:24Z")
> [@Summer jobs.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/summer-jobs/44462/19): > > Well I was looking at either this Quadro 2000, or their slightly lesser w-card the Quadro 600 > > The big differences between the two cards lie in the GPU specs and memory, with the 2000 variant costing some odd $40(600 only costs ~$180). The 2000 also has three digital outputs vs only one for the 600 card, however I cannot ever see myself using more than one monitor at a time. > > I don’t know if the extra ~$300 is worth spending on the 2000 card for an extra ~20GB worth of bandwidth, and the performance difference between GDDR5 and DDR3 memory on the card(Q2000 and Q600 respectfully). > > Q2000 specs > > [Page Not Found | NVIDIA](http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-2000-us.html) > > Q600 specs > > [Page Not Found | NVIDIA](http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-600-us.html) > > Let me know what you think of above. I’m planning to pickup that first kit I listed and one of these Nvidia cards with a windows 7 OS and drop it all off to you for your magic :tongue I honestly not sure Adam, unfortunately not having really dealt with rendering specific needs I don’t how how complex what your doing is or really how much you can throw at these cards… The 600 might be enough, i just don’t know… See below > [@OFFICIAL: 2008 ELECTION THREAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-2008-election-thread/41192/437): > > Ive run SW on non-workstation cards with no issue…not sure where this “need” comes from especially for a build that will ONLY be supporting SW… > Any modern built comp will support everything SW can throw at it (if that’s all its running from day 1) Sounds like you deal with this quite a bit, at least more then me… I know running SW with a consumer card is generally not an issue, where it may become an issue is with support from SW if he should so ever need it, maybe something doesnt render properly, and could possibly be due to the card who knows… Also, I’d imagine that a workstation card would compile a render a bit better then a consumer card, but then again i’d imagine it depends on how complex your getting in SW… Adam maybe you should shoot the shit here with STATUS sounds like he has a few more notches in his belt when it comes to SW --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-guys-look-this-over/259816)._