Nvidia Quadro NVS 285.

[ptc-125863]

Associates,

As a result of a hard drive crash and burn I have inherited a
recycled Dell system with a Nvidia Quadro NVS 285 video card. In addition
I have also added a second LCD monitor to the mix. I am noticing that the
graphics performance is not what I am used to with my old ATI FireGL card
with a single monitor even though the new one has 256MB on board as
opposed to the 128MB is used to have. I don't have any prior experience
with one monitor versus two and minimal recent experience with Nvidia
products. I guess it would be logical that you would take a performance
hit by adding a second monitor but, as I said, I have no prior experience.
I was wondering if anyone has any comments or suggestions. I know with
the ATI control panel you could select a custom configuration for Wildfire
but I don't see any such functionality in the Nvidia control panel. There
is a section under "Manage 3D settings" for "Program Settings" where it
appears you can customize by application but I have no idea what settings
would be advantageous. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Dave
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[rapidoconsultin]

Dave

That video card NVS is the lowest level of graphics card by NVidia for so called CAD workstations. It will most definitely work slower than a FireGL or any Quadro card by NVidia. I have worked with both cards over the years and prefer the NVidia offerings because at one time ATI was ignoring the CAD workstation market. NVidia does have a lot of settings that you can mess with, but their drivers work well with Pro-E in the default mode. They are used quite a lot in the Pro-E workstations, so their driver doesn't really need user tweaks. The memory level is just not the same as having the better GPU that comes with the higher level cards. To make this short I would look and see if you can upgrade your video card, I know that sometimes in a company that can result in begging. A reasonable upgrade to either FireGL or Quadro cards should give you decent performance and keep you efficient, use the time savings as justification of upgrade.

Eric Mills

Design and Project manager

http://www.rapidoconsulting.com

eric.mills@rapidoconsulting.com

[JeffZemsky]

The NVS 285 is made for multi-monitor support for 2D applications like finance and medical imaging, not 3D

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In Reply to David Miller:

Associates,

As a result of a hard drive crash and burn I have inherited a
recycled Dell system with a Nvidia Quadro NVS 285 video card. In addition
I have also added a second LCD monitor to the mix. I am noticing that the
graphics performance is not what I am used to with my old ATI FireGL card
with a single monitor even though the new one has 256MB on board as
opposed to the 128MB is used to have. I don't have any prior experience
with one monitor versus two and minimal recent experience with Nvidia
products. I guess it would be logical that you would take a performance
hit by adding a second monitor but, as I said, I have no prior experience.
I was wondering if anyone has any comments or suggestions. I know with
the ATI control panel you could select a custom configuration for Wildfire
but I don't see any such functionality in the Nvidia control panel. There
is a section under "Manage 3D settings" for "Program Settings" where it
appears you can customize by application but I have no idea what settings
would be advantageous. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Dave

Jeff Zemsky
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