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junghoonjoe
03-29-2009, 09:34 PM
I'm buying a new laptop to work on Maya. I've read in multiple places that the Quadro FX card is optimized to work with OpenGL and AutoCAD, and thus would run Maya better. I've narrowed my latoptop search down to two, one of which has a GeForce card and the other has the Quadro card. I am leaning towards the GeForce because of the price.

My question is, if I were to purchase the GeForce 9800m laptop, would there we a signiticant drop in quality/compatibility with Maya, ZBrush, Vue etc etc.?


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The two laptops I am deciding between are the Dell Precision M4400 (with QuadroFX) and the Gateway P-7808u FX (with GeForce).

http://www.gateway.com/systems/product/529668231.php

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/workstation_precision_m4400?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

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For the same price, the Gateway computer has twice the RAM at a higher DDR3 grade, twice the hard drive, larger screen and the GeForce card is 1 gig as apposed to the Quadro that is 512. The Gateway has a handfull of goodies likes web-cam, blue tooth, but those are just junkfood to me.

The Dell with the Quadro does have a slightly more powerful duo core processor though, and I am really into rendering.

So with this in consideration, is it worth forking over the extra dough for inferior specs but a QuadroFX card? Or would the GeForce be capable enough?

Thanks.

ps - on a side note, since I do rendering, would a Quad-core be a neccessity?
anevsky
03-30-2009, 12:14 PM
Personally I use maya all day long. From personal use the quadro cards are not more capable in such a way that would justify lower specs or much higher price. Especially if its a lower grade \ less ram \ previous generation gpu.

If your into rendering - I would get a cheap desktop with a core i7 920. Laptop isn't such a good idea for rendering - first of all a quad core gets you twice as much rendering power as a dual core (and laptops with quads currently are expensive). Secondly theres the stress and temps related to rendering that wouldnt help the lappy.

If you really need to be mobile - probably i would go for a laptop with as high as i can dual core chip - for all the single thread activities (and theres still alot of those in maya), and a geforce.