Kinsa mga Civil Engineers diri - GPU for your Structural Application (Professional Application)... an Inquiry

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^ okis bro... had replied on your PM...

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peeps,

i'm back again... kinsa ninyo dha'g naka gamit ug nag gamit pa sa ani na mga Quadro... oldy ni sila...

Quadro FX1800
Quadro FX3800

nag sige ko'g basa2x, lami man suwayan ni sila. dili man kaayo mahal then ok sa autoCAD... 2013 diay ang version na gi gamit sa akoang bro. ingon sya, dili ra sya mag need ug powerful quadro GPU. maong, nangita lang pud ko'g barato. then naa man ko'y extra H61 mobo, palitan lang siguro ni nko'g i5 or i7 (non-K variants) para magamit... but the dual Xeon workstation project, padayon ra gihapon ni.

mao ni ang price equivalent to php sa aning duha ka quadro cards diri...

Quadro FX1800... 3K php
Quadro FX3800... 5K php



then naa naman diay Maxwell based Quadro... ang K620 and K2200... mao ni ang price nila diri equivalent to php...

Quadro K620 (2GB DDR3): 6.6k php
Quadro K2200 (4 GB DDR5): 14K php

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update...

GPU na lang kulang sa ani na rig... dedicated for autoCAD 2013/2014... spanked an i7-3770 here in istorya... ang H61 mobo (Asus P8H61-M LX Plus)... nag libog ko's GPU... for these version of autoCAD, MS DirectX man ang gamit nila. dili naman OpenGL, so, no need for a Quadro... plano nko mag GTX 750 Ti or 760 4GB... instead sa Quadro...

Professional Applications - GeForce GTX 750 Ti Review: Maxwell Adds Performance Using Less Power

ingon akoang bro, gamit ra sa autoCAD 3D kun mag render sya'g perspective sa plan... mura'g dili man ni need ug Quadro GPU ang kani na work load... kamo dha mga peeps, unsa comment ninyo ani... unsa ma'y nice na GPU sa anang duha na gi mention nako? sa benchmark, bang for the money man ang GTX 750 Ti...

please rain down your comments... by the way, kita ko diri'g Quadro 5000 priced @ 1,550 rmb (used)... roughly, 11.3K php... pulled from a Dell workstation... mura'g overkill ra man ni's gamit sa akoang bro... what do you think?

please rain down your comments... negative and positive are both welcome... thanks...

[MarXX]

renderings are mostly CPU based. unless Iray is used, mostly in 3dsmax, which is not a common place for civil engineers to be in. Honestly a gt430 card can already perform in Autocad. if editing he will need processor speed rather than core count. so technically speaking a G3258 overclocked will do. its all single threaded untill you get to rendering. what Autocad and most engineering programs are hungry for is RAM.

AutocAD isnt really mainstream anymore when it comes to 3d. sketchup is a more likely bet.

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^ thanks bro... i just opted to use the LGA 1155 platform since i got 2 extra mobos lying around... is the i7-3770 good in rendering? currently, his CPU is a G2130 w/ 8GB 1600 MHz ram & GT 640 2GB DDR3 vram and during rendering (CPU based work load), it's slow... hehehe... that rig is the all-purpose rig at home...

by the way, the current ram installed on this rig is 8 GB (2 x 4 GB... DDR3 1600 MHz)... i've read that 16 GB would be minimum for rendering using autoCAD... if this is true, how would be an 8 GB rig perform on this work load?

for 2D, autoCAD is a light load (but not 100% true), even the iGPU can be used (it depends on the drawing though)... its just in 3D that its not that friendly... but, on a "professional" level work load...

anyhow, got extra GPUs here... 2 x GTX 750 Ti 2GB and 2 x R9 270x Hawk... i'm inclined to install one of the 750 Ti's for this project...



an update for this project...

purchased one Hanns.G 27" monitor (GL278DBW) for this rig... pwerteng lipaya's akoang bro pag balita nako ani... for me, that was a priceless moment... dili to mabayran ug any amount...

[MarXX]

750ti is more than enough actually. actually mas dako pa tabang multi monitor than anthing else.

8GB is what i have at my office rig, id say it enough. my home PC is on 16GB, i dont feel the difference unless i run those top tier BIM programs.

3770 on rendering will be left wanting but considering that those applications rely on single threaded performance more than anything, id say its a damn good compromise. thing is during editing when you spend most of your time is when the processor needs good single threaded performance. and only on rendering will the additional cores be actually used. and bisag 8 cores pa na nga hyperthreaded, mag huwat gyud gihapon ka. its a question of how long ka mag huwat. its a fact that ive grown to accpet kaysa mag cge kog gukod sa processor tech.....

in an ideal situation he would have 2 pc's.
for editing an overclocked g3258, overclocked to the eyeballs w ssd and 750ti. this is the main work rig.
then another machine, a multi core one, dual CPU if possible for rendering.....
this way dili sad kalas kuryente.

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noted bro... once mo pick-up unya ni puhon, padayon nko ang dual xeon workstation for rendering. for now, I just put on hold this workstation project rig since, we're still "steps away" from a full start-up... hehehe... anyhow, the direction would be for business use...

thanks...

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perhaps an OC'ed Pentium G6960 (LGA 1156) to 4.62 GHz would be good as an alternative to Pentium G3258 as a dedicated autoCAD rig for editing... kaso, up to DDR3 1066 MHz lang ang mem na supported nya...

barato kaayo diri ang G6950... priced @ 75 rmb... roughly, 525 php lang... oldy tech naman lagi ni... plus, daghan pa kaayo'ng mga LGA 1156 mobo's ang mapalit ug mapili-an...

alternative lang ni sya for a high OC'ed CPU...