I am not looking towards a Nvidia Quadro solution and would be quite happy to use a more mainstream graphics card either from Nvidia or AMD. Hence my request for assistance and advice from members who have actually upgraded the graphics cards in these computers. Power supply does not seem to be an issue as the 490 come with 750w and the 6w available. From my reading, it seems that the most significant issue is compatibility with the old PCIe x16 (either version 1.0 or 1.1 – I cant definitively determine which) expansion slot that was included with these computers. I have done a fair bit of research and reading online and there seems to be enormously conflicting information regarding which graphics cards will and will not work in these computers. The reason for my post is to seek advice and suggestions from other forum members with similar computers who have successfully upgraded their graphics cards to something more modern and powerful. The computers are otherwise still quite functional as each has dual Xeon 5160 processors and 16 Gb RAM. They all currently have either Nvidia Quadro FX3500 or Quadro FX4600 cards which are very old and an obvious bottleneck when doing 3D renderings. I am keen to get a couple more years out of these trusty workhorses and it seems to me that their most obvious limitation is the graphics card. However, there shortcomings are become more evident now that we are doing more and more 3D work on applications such as Trimble SketchUp. These seem to be incredibly reliable and still fulfil their role quite well for 2D work. I have a number of Dell Precision 490 and 690 workstations that I have used to do CAD work over many years. (I've referred to in choosing the CPU.I am new to this forum and I hope that someone can help me.
Lastly, the Intel Xeon 5160 (3.00GHz, 1333MHz, 4MB) is the same price as the quad-core E5345 - which processor is likely to give the best performance now and over the next couple of years?
I want the machine to be quite future-proof, hence I think the Dell 490 has space for a second CPU?Īlso, with eight DIMM slots for RAM, I was wondering which would be better performance-wise - 4x1GB or 8x512MB? Graphics card: nVIDIA Quadro FX3500 256MB Memory: 4GB DDR2 667MHz quad-channel FBD RAM (4x1GB) I tend to work with assemblies of 500-1000 parts and recently have started more intensive rendering and COSMOS work.īase system: Dell Precision 490 with Windows XP Pro 圆4ĬPU: Intel Xeon 5345 (2.33GHz, 1333MHz, 2x4MB) quad-core I've specced the following system and would appreciate some comments (i.e. I'm to get a new Dell workstation at work with a budget of around £2000. Hi there, thanks for taking the time to help.
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