Thread: Workstation video card
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Re: Workstation video card
For Inventor, I use a P4 2.4GHz,512mb RAM, Abit IS7 motherboard, 10K RPM SATA HD, Geforce FX5200 128mb video card. It works really well. There is some minor glitching with the Geoforce video card in inventor, but for the most part I like it a lot. Autodesk actually has a table on their site that shows what video cards are recommended and which ones aren't. Sadly, I don't believe my Geforce is a recommended one so maybe something like a Radeon would be better.

Here's the main things that I see as necessary for a CAD computer to function well.

P4 Processor (Preferably 2.4GHz+)
512mb - 1Gb RAM
Video card with 128mb memory
decent motherboard/chipset
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