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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Works very well. No fuss. No need for an external power source.
Cons: Expensive
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The card is good Elemental Accelerator is not
Reviewed By: truexc on 1/9/2010
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: It works as advertised. I bought the card for my video editing workstation, knowing that the video card wasn't really as important if simply editing straight video without effects. Although I haven't tried in After Effects, I'm sure it will give me my money's worth there.
Cons: First, with this card the Elemental Accelerator plugin for Premiere Pro CS4 does not provide any advantage over the CPU when transcoding AVCHD footage into h.264 blu-ray.
Second, I can't be 100% sure but before installing EA Adobe CS4 was running perfectly stable. After installation, it has frozen up several times even after uninstalling CS4 and EA and reinstalling CS4 without EA.
Third, the transcoded footage produced by EA had some odd problems. It would ignore edit points so that with a two camera setup it would transcode the footage from both cameras. For example, I transcoded a wedding procession and when watching the finished product the groomsmen and bridesmaids would walk up the aisle from one camera view then they would walk up again from the other camera view instead of there being a cut between each camera view. It is really odd.
Other Thoughts: I ended up getting it without the Elemental Accelerator plugin for Premiere CS4 mainly because I wanted to try the trial version before buying it. That turned out to be a good decision as Elemental Accelerator has a number of issues.
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Handles everything I've thrown at it
Reviewed By: renderanything on 10/7/2009
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
Pros: Quiet, cool and very dependable. Installing the drivers in Linux was mostly painless. Haven't yet encountered any incompatibility issues using this card and running Maya 2010 on CentOS 5.3 The only time I have bogged this card down yet was with a 3+ million poly model with High Quality Rendering turned on, and it was still livable. Complex scenes and lighting that would have otherwise crashed my previous equipment are no problem for this card.
Cons: Not much. It was a little tricky to get the X Server settings configured but even a Linux newb like myself was able to overcome it handily.
Other Thoughts: Running this card in my "budget" workstation: CentOS 5.3 Core I7 950 ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 12 GB Corsair DDR3 Corsair 750W PS 2x WD Caviar Black 640 GB in Raid 0 Quadro FX 1800
Currently running two displays with this card, one in 1920x1080 and the other in 1280x1024. Running two displays raised the core temperature compared to hooking up only one, but still not even halfway to the slowdown threshold.
It also came with the latest drivers pre-loaded from the factory.
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General
Brand
PNY
Model
VCQFX1800-PCIE-PB
Interface
Interface
PCI Express 2.0 x16
Chipset
Chipset Manufacturer
NVIDIA
GPU
Quadro FX 1800
Stream Processors
64
Memory
Memory Size
768MB
Memory Interface
192-bit
Memory Type
GDDR3
3D API
DirectX
DirectX 10
OpenGL
OpenGL 3.0
Ports
DisplayPort
2
DVI
1
Spec
Digital Resolution
2560 x 1600
Dual-Link DVI Supported
Yes
Operating Systems Supported
Windows 7 (64-bit and 32-bit), Windows Vista (64-bit and 32-bit), Windows XP (64-bit and 32-bit) and Windows 2000 Linux (64-bit and 32-bit) Solaris
Reviewed By: Drew on 2/2/2010
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
