Quadro Fx 1400 vs 3400

g.bon the on board ram for the video will help when you are working i a large assembly (ie. 1000+ parts). If most of the assemblies tha you work in are like 100+ parts then you might not need the mor expense card. You need to accdess your needs and determine whic works best for your situation

I'm running a Quadpro card and I've used ATI cards like on a lapto

and man can you tell the differnce, but between the 2 cards you ar looking at it's probably going to unoticalbe

Good luck, Glenn |B

I read an article once that explained OpenGL graphics and was shocked at the conclusion. Because of the way OpenGL works, the amount of video RAM needed is (relatively) miniscule and is a function of color depth (16,24,32 bit etc) and screen resolution. I think the conclusion was that you needed about 7 or 8 MB of RAM per ProE window open. After having sunk thousands over the years into the latest and greatest video cards (I remember paying Dell $1800 for a 256MB Wildcat at one time) I realize that I was hardly even scratching the surface of the card's ability. If you're gaming, running lots of textures and shadows, etc, the high amount of RAM helps, but with ProE just spinning and zooming/panning, etc, it makes no difference.

What does make a difference is the speed of the processor on the video card, so I would focus on that. In your case, with a 3% difference, I would buy the cheaper card.

Regards

ps. If anyone here read the same OpenGL explanation, could they post a link? I would like to print it out.