The best graphicboard for particle illusion

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

personally I’ve had a lot of luck with nVidea Cards. I’ve heard ALan say that cards geared more towards gaming instead of 3D animation and design are better suited to pIllusion. Again, nVideo cards have worked for well for me, wether for gaming or 3D design.

The more on board RAM you have on your Open GL card, the better/faster pIllusion will run.

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[Janoschy]

But if i like to work with big projekts (many particle emitters, big stage size), which solution would be better:

1) 2 x 7800GTX working together in SLI technic (800 $)
or
2) 1 x Quadro FX3400 (1200$)

Could not find any Information about the performances on PI-Website.
The Benchmark results are very old.

Thanx

Janoschy

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

I honestly don’t know. I’d venture to guess you wood have good performance on either, but I can’t say which is better.

Alan, any thoughts?

You may want to email support(AT)wondertouch(DOT)com.

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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com

[Alan Lorence]

I honestly do not know which is better for pIllusion. The fastest card I have is the GeForce GO 6800, and it’s quite good for pI3. The 2 solutions you mentioned are even faster (I think), so I doubt you’ll be disappointed with either.

A few years back I was seeing better performance from “game-level” cards than I was from the expensive DCC cards, but I don’t think that’s an issue any more.

I do know that any card that has excellent performance with games will have excellent performance with pI3 though. I personally wouldn’t spend $1200 on a card just for pI3. If you have other DCC apps that would benefit, then yes, but for only pI3 those cards are probably overkill.

Alan.
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