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January 25, 2014 9:34:29 AM

Hi, I have a new Xi computer with a Quadro K600 card. I'm primarily running SolidWorks on it and want to stay with a Solidworks certified card. After I bought the computer, I decided that I'd also like to run Bunkspeed Shot on it. I have another week in which I can exchange the card, and I'd like to get a solution that will have more Cuda cores to run Shot faster. I don't want to spend more than another $400 dollars though. The solutions that I have considered are:
A) exchange the K600 for a K2000. This will only give me 384 cores though.
B) buy an additional card and run two cards. I'm thinking of something in the NVidia GTX line such as the GTX 760 which has 1152 cuda cores and would only cost me an additional $260.

In the nVidia line, the GTX cards have the best value in Cuda cores per dollar spent, but I don't want to run solely a GTX card because I have read that they will not support Realview in SolidWorks.

Can I run a GTX card in conjunction with a Quadro card such as the K600 that I currently have? Will they work together, or can I somehow set them to enable the Quadro card for Solidworks and the GTX card for Shot? Can you suggest any other solution for me? Thanks!!!



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January 25, 2014 9:38:48 AM

No gtx card cant be run with quadro cards as their bios and drivers are different. Imagine running an AMD with NviDia card.
Also only same GTX Series cards can be SLI'ed together(GTX 760+GTX 760), same for quadro i guess.
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January 25, 2014 9:48:13 AM

If you have WIN 7 as OS then you can run both cards simultaneously. There will be no driver issue. But you have to disable/enable the cards for work and gaming. You wont get benefit by running both cards simultaneously for gaming.

Or you can sell the K600 and buy a GTX 770/780 for work and gaming.
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