Buying nVidia? Maybe not

[clog boy]

Mike, this doesn't help. Your setup "without" acceleration as you describe could be driven by a 5 year old $20 video card. What you are doing is asking a V12 500HP engine to power a lawn mower...

So, with DirectX enabled GPU speeds do count for something. Has anyone considered the GeForce GTX a safe bet yet?

Or, arguably a bit more on topic: a crossfire setup?

[hand471037]

Or, arguably a bit more on topic: a crossfire setup?

I tried running Revit 2010 on a friend's SLI Crossfire computer, and didn't notice any huge improvement in Revit. But there was in Max. So maybe next year?

[mlgatzke]

Hey Mike is there any reason why you don't have DX turned on for those high-end cards? Have you tried autodesk's recommended drivers? It's not acceptable to have a high end card and not be able to use hardware acceleration...

Wes, I haven't seen any hesitation or limitation with the configuration we're currently using. I wouldn't mind using the approved drivers, I'd just like to test them first though I haven't seen the list to know which driver is approved by Autodesk. There's one on nVidia's site that claims to be optimized for Autodesk products. Is that the one? Would the new driver supplement the CPU with the GPU? Would there be some other benefit?

[Wes Macaulay]

Hey Mike -- dunno on your questions about CPU/GPU... but I'd say check the version number on nVidia's recommended-for-Autodesk driver vs. Autodesk's tested driver for AutoCAD 2010 and see if they're the same version number.

Cheers