hey guys, so i built a dual xeon comp and the first time i boot it up it works fine however when i go to render something on auto cad, it slows down like crazy however it's stable, no crashes or anything funny going on. i was considering swapping out the current gpu with a lower end quaddro or basically anything that will help it to run faster, any thoughts on that?
i'm not terribly sure since its actually not me that's using the computer. all i am aware of is that he is using autodesk revit and the 2014 suite for his school work and that every time he goes to render something in one of the programs, it slows down the comp a lot.
if he were to get a quaddro, which model should he consider? with the existing build it's already costing well over 2500 and he's looking to keep the costs down if possible.
If he does any gaming at all, he will want to stay far away from workstation cards. It depends on how much he is willing to spend, since his current build is quite unbalanced. TBH, he didn't really need that much CPU, and the live rendering in Autocad and almost any other program is 90% GPU horsepower.
you should optimize autocad for unsupported gpu's and performance. I did the same for autodesk inventor and it made a world of difference on a cheap pentium/integrated graphics machine
.. hope im pointing you in the right direction ... have you checked the cpu temps when you render ? I had a friend who had an issue while rendering it turned out to be a heat issue with the heat sink not sitting correctly.
Have you tried running the GTX 660 with a quadro driver? I know there are some slight mods that you will have to do to the driver but there are guides on the internet.
If you try it let me know how it works. I'm very curious myself what the performance difference is. I believe I read somewhere that NVIDIA/AMD artificially gimp the performance of their geforce/radeon cards in professional applications to force professionals to buy the workstation class cards.
YES. In Windows, the Power Options - "Power Saver" and "High Performance" - are like night and day. Be sure to select "High Performance" when performance and responsiveness is wanted.