Pros: Great driver support, fast as lightning, cheap, DVI or Analog out
Cons: Doesn't support 2 monitors
The Bottom Line: Quadro2 Pro rocks if your job CAD. For realtime rendering in detail, the QuadroDCC is nice. Not a card for gamers, go tweak a high end consumer model.
teufelhund's Full Review: Compaq NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro, (64 MB) AGP Video Card
I administer the AutoCAD labs at a university of 35k students. I like having a nice machine to keep up to run tests on all my software in a speedy manner. I use most Autodesk software down to Lightscape, Max and a little Maya. I've toyed with FormZ and liked the performance.
I have my Quadro2 in a Precision530 that came with a weak card so I ordered this from my friendly Compaq rep (oddly cheaper than from my Dell rep.) The 530 case is amazing for dropping in a card so installation was a snap. I have it connected via DVI to a 2000FP 20" flat panel. I also have 2 Trinitron 19s on the box with slower PCI cards. It seems to live just fine with the other two without a problem. Win2k recognized the card just fine. The drivers on the CD were old so I downloaded the newest as you should be used to with every product by now.
It came with docs on a cd which tell you enough.
For CAD apps, this card rocks. Real-time rendering of about anything I can throw at it. It is a solid performer on all the apps I use. Nvidia has done a stellar job of optimizing drivers for the various 3d apps on the market. 31 Million triangles/sec and 1 Billion Pixels per second. It's interesting that the consumer cards based on the same chip are faster overall. But they don't have the same driver tweaking for the real applications that our community uses.
There are a few drawbacks; it doesn't support dual monitors even though it has a DVI and Analog jack. The price is hefty considering the performance gain over say a GeForce3. After work when it’s gaming time, the frame rate on RTCWolfenstein isn’t as high as a cheaper consumer card. But it’s still cranked on max performance and faster than the eye can see.
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