LOOK AT -THIS-VIDEO CARD $PRICE W O W!

[shockwave1831]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1740444&CatId=0

 

[Heyyou27]

Yes; you're looking at the Quadro 4500. It's one of the most expensive workstation cards out.

 

[teh_squaterer]

That's a workstation card. I think that would actually perform worse than the geforce 7900GTX for gaming.

 

[angry_ducky]

It would definately perform badly for gaming. But it'll thrash the 7900 in CAD and other workstation apps.

 

[bront]

Part of what you're paying for is the certified driver set that those cards work with. That costs a lot of money to get licenced, and so you can either spread it out to all users (so up all cards by $50-100 per card) or just hit the crowd that needs it, who can usually write it off as a business expense.

 

[Rustol3um]

Is this an Open GL card and what is the difference in the 2 card types? 7900 GTX vs. Quadro FX 4500

 

[mitch074]

The cards' hardware is pretty much the same; they can deviate in BIOS versions, and as said previously, Quadro's drivers have been licenced to work in CAD environments.

For home use, both cards support the same funcionalities, and there's hardly a difference in their OpenGL support (some OpenGL functionalities, specific to CAD, are disabled in 'mainstream' drivers - they are of no use in games).

You can get a 7900 GTX card, patch its BIOS, find leaked and patched Quadro drivers and have yourself a professional grade system for 1/4th of the price - but with absolutely no support and a cancelled warranty.

 

[kickbutt]

If it works now is it has been for the latest models its like this

The "plain" 7900 has all these fetures removed (hardware/software) as they do not help the "normal" user in open GL games or games/ programs in general.

This fetures is only helpfull in "prof" CAD programs where this kind of card can be up to 20 times faster (or more was some time sens I read about this) at spec operations.

And as said before as this is for the more advanced types of CAD then the firms that use it also pay premium for it to.

Im not sure its even based on the 7900 and it prob dont have to ether as its not textures that the power is for.

Sorry for the bad english and hopfully som CAD guy can explain this better .

EDIT:
Haha seems somone else posted a good explaination when I was wrighting this ...