What kind of card just for monitoring

[niuq.cam]

Hello,
i just bought 2 x GTX 580 3Go.
What kind of card i need now for monitoring ?
A thin card just for keeping air space and work with Windows 7 x 64.
The minimum.
Thank you.
Niuq.

[face]

I have a GF120 for display.
But i don´t know if that can give troubles with your 5xx. Maybe they use different drivers...

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[niuq.cam]

Thanks Face,
As said on the nvidia forum :
The driver package 285.62 supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs.
It seems correct.

For photoshop or cinema 4d, it's okay ?
Niuq.

[face]

Then it shouldn´t give any trouble...

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[jitendra]

Go for quadro..
They are twice better then Geforce cards in 3d viewports..

[gabrielefx]

Go for quadro..
They are twice better then Geforce cards in 3d viewports..

the Quadro is useful if you use the maxtreme Max driver, otherwise it's better to use a common GTX

Cinema 4D has no benefits from Quadros, no dedicated driver.

only few pro apps use Quadro boards. Octane doesn't need a Quadro. It's better to deactivate the 1st board to assign materials, lights and cameras and then reactivate the second gpu for the final render.

With Octane and 4 GTX580 gpus I can rotate with no problems 8 millions of polygons, all of my gpus are enabled for computing.

On the contrary with the same big scene and Arion I can't use the 1st gpu, I have to deactivate it to prepare the scene.

Probably Octane intelligently deactivate some cuda cores to use the UI.

[niuq.cam]

Hum...
Which kind of thin card can support Cinema 4d correctly ?
Thx.
Niuq.

[niuq.cam]

i just found a 8800GT 512Mo DDR3 at home.
It works perfectly.