Graphics card question!

[gilicom]

Hi , i'm thinking of buying a new card , does anyone familyar with this card :
Foxconn - FV-N795M4D2-OD

this is the specifications :

GPU： NVIDIA GeForce 7950GX2
Core： G71
CoreClock： 500MHz
Pixel Pipeline： 24
Vertex Pipeline： 8
RAMDACs： 400MHz
Memory Type： GDDR3
Memory Size： 1024MB
Memory Clock： 1200MHz
Memory Interface： 512-Bit
Graphics Bus Technology： PCI Express x16
Cooler： Fansink
Connectors： Dual Dual-Link DVI + HDTV-Out
Special Features： - NVIDIA® SLI™ Support
- Dual Dual-Link DVI Support
- HDTV Out Support
- Windows Vista™ Support

[DaForce]

No good, its 2 cards stuck together so to get teh full power it needs to be in SLI mode, which doesnt work with max. Its basically 2 7900's stuck together as one card.
Its good for games tho.

Best to get a single more powerfull card like a 8800GTS or GTX

[werticus]

da force has got it right SLI is pointless and that card is an sli in one type of deal.

[Morbid Angel]

"workstation" cards are a waste of time and money if you ask me, especially the ATI range.
And then the price difference between Quadro and a Geforce is huge and the performance increase is negligable.. if any. They do excel in certain areas but thats still a minoirty of what you will use in your work flow.
Get a mid to high end gaming card and put the saved money into more cpu power or something. Or a pub crawl or something useful hahaha

I personally would never buy a workstation card.

agreed

[gilicom]

No good, its 2 cards stuck together so to get teh full power it needs to be in SLI mode, which doesnt work with max. Its basically 2 7900's stuck together as one card.
Its good for games tho.

Best to get a single more powerfull card like a 8800GTS or GTX

Thanks
What is the diffrance between them?
and which one is better?

[DaForce]

The GTX is better.. and therefore more expensive. The GTS has less memory either 320 or 640 and is abit slower. Even still I imagine a GTS would be enough. Best to go for the 640MB version or even the GTX if your budget can stretch that far

However that being said I would be suprised if you could tell the difference in the max viewport between the GTS and the GTX

[werticus]

more ram is good though - especially if you like to have cad drawings open at the same time

GTX has 768mb

and ati's x2900xt has 512mb but they are coming out with a 1024mb version ... nowish.