sd/la nvidia gpus

[pigpenguin]

Hey all,
So last year when we walked into the sandiego and la reigonals we were given a nvidia graphics card. So fast forward to today. Our cad model has finally reached the point where my measly computer can not handle the entire thing with out lagging. (this could be as much bad cadding techniques as the pure size of the model.) Any who we got to thinking about those graphics cards and the motherboard that some how came into our team's possession. So now we are thinking about building a team cad workstation to handle the big assemblies while our laptops would handle the sub-assemblies. So the question is does any one know which cards I am talking about and happen to know their specs? We went looking for them and all it says on the card is Nvidia ge force and a part number. When we googled the part number there were no hits. We went looking on nvidia's site and none of the ge force cards seem to match this one. Thanks, pigpeguin

[Tristan Lall]

From searching "nVidia" on the forum:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95118
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97674


In any event, first check your video drivers (are there certified and/or updated versions?). Then check your RAM (enough?).

[connor.worley]

They were GTX 480s (http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_480_us.html). They use a lot of power so make sure you have an adequate PSU.

[pigpenguin]

d'oh now I'm that guy who forgot to search and ended up asking a question that was already asked and answered :/ sorry about that. And thanks for you fast responses.

[O'Sancheski]

Make sure that you have an adequate processor. Large assemblies will run much smoother if you have a good processor and a decent amount of RAM.

Also, another thing that will help with the lag issue is to make a lot of sub-assemblies. Rather than having all the mates/constraints for the whole robot in one assembly, make an assembly for each mechanism that is on your robot and then insert those assemblies into your main assembly.

[pigpenguin]

Yeah I accidentally stumbled on that, Im curious though why does that help? Does it just treat each sub assembly as a part and not handle its constraints in real time?

[Jeff 801]

Yeah I accidentally stumbled on that, Im curious though why does that help? Does it just treat each sub assembly as a part and not handle its constraints in real time?

Yes, unless you set the sub assembly to adaptive in which case it will see the sub assemblies are part of the main assembly.

[Garten Haeska]

We made a computer just because of the card and now we are just amazed!