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From: Burcin Temel (burcintemel_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 11 2008 - 12:13:06 CDT

Hi John, thanks a lot for your suggestion, it was very helpful and we
will proceed with GeForce GTX 280.

Burcin.

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:24 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Given that you're running Linux, NVIDIA cards are the best choice,
> based on past experiences of the VMD user community.
>
> The FX 1700 you asked about is a lower end (performance-wise)
> card, so I'd suggest going for something better.
>
> If you need to be able to do stereoscopic display
> (e.g. with a CRT or another stereo-capable device),
> then a Quadro FX 3700 cards is a good choice.
>
> If you don't have any plans for stereoscopic display, then I would
> instead suggest you buy a GeForce GTX 280 or GeForce GTX 260,
> which are the latest generation of NVIDIA cards.
> They support CUDA, and are the first generation of NVIDIA GPUs with
> double precision arithmetic.
>
> If you would like to be able to use the GPU for both computation
> and for graphics, I'd suggest making sure that you get a GPU
> with at least 1GB of memory.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:32:03PM +0200, Burcin Temel wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I would like to set up a new linux computer (Intel Core duo processor,
>> 2.66Gz/1333MHz/4MB L2, memory: 4GB, 667MHz, DDR2 SDRAM Memory, ECC-4
>> DIMMS) with a "512 MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX1700, Dual Monitor DVI
>> capable" video card. Do you think this is good enough to animate
>> surface dynamics movies, or doing contour plots of charge
>> densities...? Or have you heard any problems with this kind of a video
>> card so far? We need something that is capable of producing high
>> quality graphics fast. I will be happy to hear your comments...
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Burcin Temel.
>
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