3Dlabs wildcat realizm 800

[blueshogun96]

http://www.3dlabs.com/products/product.asp?prod=293&page=6

I saw this ad for the 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 800 series of PCI-e cards. I never knew that 3Dlabs was making videocards until now (thank God nVidia and ATI arent alone). It appears to be a good card. Assuming that it's a card made by 3Dlabs, it's OpenGL support is probably "off da hook". Has anyone ever used this card before? If it's good, I'll buy one ASAP because I'm tired of having a low end peice of s@#%

EDIT: changed the link to the specs page.

 

[mix]

It's crap at playing games, it's designed for designers.

 

[blueshogun96]

It's crap at playing games, it's designed for designers.

Of what, games, CAD like stuff, modeling?

 

[cooliscool]

3DLabs was around before anyone.

Their products aren't made for the mainstream, rather, 3D artists, and its drivers are specifically designed for that. The cars has the hardware to be a great gaming card, but that's not what it's intended for.

 

[General Plot]

I still say it looks like it could be fun to try. It's gotta beat my crappy gfx card.

 

[blueshogun96]

Ok, I see. This card is meant for precision and accuracy, not speed. So it's mainly for modeling and extreme high def stuff that a gaming card can't do. Games will look good, but not run fast.

 

[CKemu]

Indeed, 3Dlabs have done a range of 3D cards for 3D artists and animators for some time now. These cards a designed to make 'viewport' work easier, shifting large numbers of tris on a screen, geometry transforms, vertex data, NURBS, displacement mapping, fast object cloning, mesh editing, compositing, motion capture data etc etc

They don't make good gaming cards - you'll pay the price of a GeForce 7800, for something thats about a GeForce 2 GTS for playing games, they are great at complex mesh work that games never do, but for real time lighting, funky bump mapping and all the pretty stuff games need, utterly poopy

Sadly to say for 3Dlabs fans, ATi and nVidia both offer extremely powerfull cards for designers, animators and the like.

In all honesty I've never been tempted to buy a 'designers' card, my GeForce 5950u is certainly not speedy when it comes to the 3D work I do in 3DSmax, but RAM and raw CPU power are a much better investment, as rendering is utterly dependant on your CPU power. It maybe great to be able to wizz around your scene in a viewport, but it sucks when you have to wait 4 or 5 hours for it to render the final product

 

[_Chrono_]

3Dlabs wildcat realizm 800 all yours for a nifty price of 2995$ CAN

 

[blueshogun96]

in that case im stikin' to a Geforce 6200 until i can get a pci-e mobo