I know this topic has cropped up occasionaly, but I can't find anything very recent so thought it was worth airing it again.
I have a MC5 running on an HP xw8600 with 4Gb memory win XP32. Until recently I was running a Quadro FX3500 graphics card and all has been fine until I started running into open GL problems with Boris BCC7. Boris were very helpful and variously blamed the problem on either Win XP or openGL implementation in the 3500 card.
So this christmas I decided to splash out a bit and upgraded to Win 7 64 ultimate on a new SSD hybrid hard drive and picked up a Quadro FX1800 card from ebay. (Funds are limited you will understand! and yes I know the 1800 is not officially supported but neither is the 3500 anymore)
The main benefits of the 1800 over the 3500 seemed to be increased memory (256 up to 750) OpenGL 3 and Cuda (which isn't used in Avid but is used in my Encoding software).
However, I am not totally satisfied that the 1800 is giving me much of a boost. I am looking at moving up to a 3800 or 4800 if a bargain comes up on ebay, however reading up on the topic it seems like many people are having great success with the GeForce cards especially since these are qualified on Macs by Avid.
My questions are:
What are the GeForce equivalents to the Quadro 3800 and 4800?
Has anyone had any experience of the top of the range GTS450 or any of the GTX cards working ok with Avid in a PC?
What GeForce cards are people having success with?
I don't want to take too many risks but equally $1k to $2k for a Quadro 4800 is a lot of dough to splash out on something that may not give me much more power.
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