Graphics card for home computer 1

[kroppkaka]

Can Solidworks 2006 run saticfactory on a Radeon X1950Pro 256MB or a NVIDIA Geforce 7900GS 256MB.
I am just going to use Solidworks for some work I will take home at very rare occasions.

Also will Solidworks work OK on XP Home?

Which graphics would be the better one?

Thanks

 

[ctopher]

Check out the cards here:

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/videocardtesting.html

Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)

 

[Heckler]

I would check the SWx website

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/VideoCardTesting.html

I have a nVidia Quadro4 750 XGL on my home computer and it works great. It's a few years old and can be found on ebay for cheap.

Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SWx 2007 SP 3.0 & Pro/E 2001
XP Pro SP2.0 P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
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[JMirisola]

SolidWorks 2006 will work on HP Home, but 2007 won't. It'll seem like it wants to but, from my experience, it craps out and that's assuming it fully boots up.
If you're not going to be doing any high end modeling, or working with large assemblies, you'll be ok (I stress 'ok') with an unapproved card, but I wouldn't recommend it. If you have to, go with the GeForce card.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP2.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM, nVidia 2500M

http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog

 

[J-C]

My Geforce 6800gt works fine....minor graphical glitches here and there but its fast.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
UG NX4.01.0 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2007 SP3.1 on WinXP SP2

 

[Luca83]

Besides REALVIEW not working, no major home useage problems on an 8800GTS.

Just make sure that the Anti-Aliasing and Anthroscopic filtering are set to "application controled" or you will get some weird graphical anolomies in SW.

-L@P.I.D.

Work: Dell PW690-Intel Xeon E5345 2.33GHz-PNY QUADRO FX3450 Drivers 77.56-4GB DDR2 FB-DIMM 667MHz ECC-80GB 10K-250GB 7.2K-Win XPx64-SW2007 SP2.2-RHINO 4.0 SP0
Play: Intel X6800 Core 2 Extreme - Asus P5W64 WS Pro i975X -2GB Corsair XMS-EVGA NV7900GTO(Mod. GTX Bios , FW93.71)-74GB Raptor-250GB WD Caviar

 

[KenMoz]

My home computer is running SW07 on XP home. Some can. Some can't. Never heard any explaination of why. I attribute my luck to good clean living.

I also have a $65 ati se300 graphics card that I intended to change but never did as it works just fine for smaller models. Some minor quirks.

Ken Mozden - Tool Design
H-P Products Inc
Louisville, Oh

 

[kroppkaka]

Has anyone else had a problem with getting SW 2007 to work on XP Home? I didn't plan to try to do this but if others are successful I may try.
Thanks for your help.

 

[Theophilus]

Get a used nVidia FX-500 or such--very good cards. (I'm about to sell my old system WITH the card and XP Pro, and I used that as my full-time machine through SW 2006.)



Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

Reason trumps all. And awe transcends reason.

 

[jlcochran1]

I have run the past several versions of SW on XP home and noticed no significant difference in performance between 2007 vs 2006 or earlier.