If I bought a CRAY super computer will CA be faster?

[dshall]

Scott:

renders depend on your video card for ram and probably even the GPU for speed

raytraces depend on the cpu for speed and use PC ram

I suspect a superfast computer and a superfast video card then probably

isn't George using a Cray equivalent

Lew

So what video card should I get so I experience no slow down. I think my signature specifies my video card, is this a slow video card and is there a much faster video card I should buy.

[lbuttery]

Scott:

I am not up on the latest/greatest video cards etc as I'm not in the market for one and the specs change "daily"

Lew

[Joe Carrick]

So what video card should I get so I experience no slow down. I think my signature specifies my video card, is this a slow video card and is there a much faster video card I should buy.

Probably one of the 500 series with 3GB would be better than what you have.

I've got a NVidea 580M GTX 3GB in my laptop. I often have 2 or 3 render views active at the same time and I use a lot of extra symbols for roofing, etc. I am able to zoom and rotate the views very fast.

[dshall]

Probably one of the 500 series with 3GB would be better than what you have.

I've got a NVidea 580M GTX 3GB in my laptop. I often have 2 or 3 render views active at the same time and I use a lot of extra symbols for roofing, etc. I am able to zoom and rotate the views very fast.

Thanks Joe, I just got on the Nividea site and noticed this.....Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX, do you think this would have a mega increase in performance over what I have now?

[Joe Carrick]

Thanks Joe, I just got on the Nividea site and noticed this.....Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX, do you think this would have a mega increase in performance over what I have now?

Probably, but I don't know the specs on the 8800. Your 280 is a bit dated.

[dshall]

I really don't know what I am doing here, I thought the higher the number the better, but maybe the 500 series is the best. Maybe the GTX590.....