quadro4 750, 980 or fx1000?

Part of this decision depends on what type of work you do. If you do simple prismatic shapes and small assemblies, you could probably get away with a far cheaper card than you have listed.

I do mold designs. Sometimes with fairly complex shapes. My assemblies can be anywhere from 300-500 parts. My Quadro4 750 XGL is great for me. But I wouldn't want to use anything any smaller for what I do. I probably would see a difference with a 980 XGL or higher, but probably only marginal.

I had been using a 900XGL and then briefly used an FX500. I was fairly impressed with the performance of the FX card and would seriously consider it if price were a major issue. Now I'm using the ATI FireGL X2 and like it.

WT

I looked at comparisons on the web when we needed new cards. The 980 was only marginally faster on SW benchmarks so we went for the cheaper 750. I don't know anything about the fx1100, but you usually end up paying a lot for a few percent increase in speed. If waiting for the display to update really bugs you, it might be worth it, but I spend most of my time waiting for the rebuilds.

Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems "take the garbage out, dear"

I have a 750 to drive 2 monitors (2560x960)and while this is quite adequate realview is a noticeable performance sap in 2004.The dual set up probably cuts performance by 25% already but I would be tempted to say this card would be at the lower end of spec now. realview perf is somewhat better with

05 ; ) of course if you don't use realview the card is fine.imo the 980 doesn't give that much of an increase to pay 220eu for I would consider waiting for the next generation quadro to hit the shelves based on the new NVIDIA chipset-can't be far away now and then pick up an fx1000 at a much better clearance price.

Jerry,

If you have 8X AGP on the MB, the 980 is considerably faster than the 750.

We have both

Regards

Mark

the mother boards would be asus p4c800e-deluxe, then i will have agp

8x.

considering everything, i think i'll get some 980s.

thank you.

regards.