Upgrade workstation Quadro M2000 or M4000 advise please

[Tom J]

http://download.solidcam.info/it/sol...d_systems.html
just wonder why they recommend K-series which are not listed on current Nvidia website
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/quadr...p-gpus-uk.html

[Boyan Silyavski]

Are you sure you have windows and all set right? I use NX on a 7 year old PC without a glitch, same goes for my i5 laptop with standard 1G graphic card, nothing fancy. Some programs are buggy / Sketchup/ so whatever you do they are slow. Open your task manager in windows and see what happens there meanwhile. If all is not 100% , then its software fault or bugs, not hardware

[Tom J]

My win7 is spotless starts in 6sec, no bugs, station is only used for Solidworks and SCam.
SW run sweet even with real view, however solidcam is slow and need time to calculate -sometimes like 2min (I often check if still responding in task manager)

[Boyan Silyavski]

Great! May it be then that you have to disable some kind of model rendering in the Solidcam options? I don't know the program , but many programs have tricks in the sleeve to speed things up. But some times the sad truth maybe that some programs simply are buggy and dont use well the PC resources. like Sketchup for example, 3 years versions and the same slow performance. Which starts to get annoying when you have entire CNC machine drawn using it.

[Ger21]

It says it uses DirectX (Direct3D), so I would think that a good gaming card would work fine. I'd try a GTX 970 or 980, for a lot less money.
I also don't think that toolpath calculation is GPU limited.
How old is your i5?

[Tom J]

3years old
i5-3570k 3.4GHz 4 cores

[Greeny]

The graphics card driver compatability page gives a more comprehensive list of tested cards including the m2000 & m4000 (the m1000 is not listed)
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support...rdtesting.html

Might be worth trying the solidworks performance test. The listed results should give you a rough idea of what people are getting with similar systems to your current setup & if you added 2000 / 4000
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/shareyourscore.htm

cheers