Video Card Suggestions for CAD/Games

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Right now i have a Geforce fx 5500, AGP, video card. I just installed the newest versions of solidworks and wildfire on my computer. When i start sketching, i get an error and both programs close. I changed solidworks to use OpenGL and i can actually use the program now. Someone told me my video card was the problem. Also i have been getting back into some games and my card can barely handle some of the newest stuff.

So i want to upgrade my card. I was looking into some quadro and geforce cards. I heard quadro is more for cad and the geforce is more of a gaming card. I just wan’t to be able to do both with no problems and have a card that i won’t have to replace for a while. Im looking to spend around $200 if possible??

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nvidia quadro, while mostly a higher end workstation card, im sure u can play games on it also

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assuming you want an AGP card, this one would do you good and it’s pretty cheap

My 7800 runs solidworks great :tup: The quadros are nice, but can get uber expensive

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i run 2 quadro FX 3400’s in SLI, run games just fine :wink:

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I run one of these in my machine at work and it works great.