High end gaming cards specialize in pure speed while high-end workstation cards specialize in extreme accuracy and precision is the basic answer.
What accuracy, you are just rendering a complex assembly. You don't need accuracy, the human eye compensates. When you spin it, the drop bits, then it renders again accurately.
I used workstation cards. A QuadroFX and one day it dies. I needed to do a job quickly so I rushed out and bought a cheap gaming card. I mean cheap. It worked just as good. I COULD HARDLY TELL THE DIFFERENCE. This workstation business is a scam.
Try this test, as long as you have a fast CPU (ie less than a couple of years old CPU) and about 2Gig of ram.
Download a demo of ProEngineer. You get 30 days. open the most complex assembly spin to your hearts content. I did this with an assembly with many thousands of parts. It flies. Graphics cards have advanced to a point, and this software worked will with top end cards in 1998. We have advanced 10 years now. The budget cards work great.
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Well you know there's less profit in downloaded music.
(PS:
They're paranoid about loosing the distribution channels
They're paranoid about loosing the distribution channels
They're paranoid about loosing the distribution channels
Hey hey lighten up. This is news for nerds. If you want to read about things that are on the market, go read ebay.
It does get frustrating, but be critical and enjoy NEWS. Things are not simply evolutionary, things are changing increadably fast on the big picture. Step back and look just a couple of ago. The difference is evident.
Each technology/science front is moving forward pretty fast. And all together are starting to tie in... look at MEMS... 2GB USB sticks for a couple of bucks, all the music and human knowlege in your pocket, supercomputing/navigating phones, genome Vs History.
All this comes to you care of Slashdot... plus ponies... pink ones... what more do you want
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In Engineering you never fire an Engineer that lived through a disaster that is his mistake. They just lesson cost them 1 billion dollars. You don't fire somebody after having lived through that lesson. He/She is gold. Making mistakes or living through exceptional disasters are invaluable.
You do fire somebody if they repeat mistakes.
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Well you know there's less profit in downloaded music. (PS: They're paranoid about loosing the distribution channels They're paranoid about loosing the distribution channels They're paranoid about loosing the distribution channels
Or in other words, to avoid Indiana Joannes references, ... gather a whole heap of people with interesting conditions and sequence them.
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Hey hey lighten up. This is news for nerds. If you want to read about things that are on the market, go read ebay. It does get frustrating, but be critical and enjoy NEWS. Things are not simply evolutionary, things are changing increadably fast on the big picture. Step back and look just a couple of ago. The difference is evident. Each technology/science front is moving forward pretty fast. And all together are starting to tie in ... look at MEMS ... 2GB USB sticks for a couple of bucks, all the music and human knowlege in your pocket, supercomputing/navigating phones, genome Vs History.
All this comes to you care of Slashdot ... plus ponies ... pink ones ... what more do you want
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In Engineering you never fire an Engineer that lived through a disaster that is his mistake. They just lesson cost them 1 billion dollars. You don't fire somebody after having lived through that lesson. He/She is gold. Making mistakes or living through exceptional disasters are invaluable. You do fire somebody if they repeat mistakes. G