512MB NVIDIA® Quadro NVS 120M TurboCache

[brickloaf]

what settings do u think this would run at with 1gb RAM, and a 1.66GHz processor

any help appericated!

[cloakster]

the nvidia quadro series are workstation cards and are NOT ment for gaming. do not buy them for gaming

[infectedsoldier]

the nvidia quadro series are workstation cards and are NOT ment for gaming. do not buy them for gaming

Exactly, while you could try it. It'd probably be a waste. I wouldn't advise it at all. Get a 6600 or 6800. Or could spend a bit more for a 7800. Much much better.

[<}US{>BlackHawkPilot73]

get a 6600gt...perfect for your specs.

[jdrou]

what settings do u think this would run at with 1gb RAM, and a 1.66GHz processor

any help appericated!
For those that don't know, this is a mobile chip. I wouldn't expect more than medium settings; it certainly won't be as good as a mobile 7800. And you should get more than 1GB of RAM since the video card uses system RAM for anything more than 128 MB (that's what TurboCache is). I'm looking at getting the new Latitude D820 with that GPU but the 2 GHz CPU and 2 GB RAM. I want something decent for games but smaller than the 17" screen monsters (otherwise I'd get a Sager with an Athlon 64 and nVidia 7800).

[Blades]

The megabytes that a gfx card has do not mean ANYTHING. What matters the most is the Core GPU and the Memory Hertz. A 6600 vanilla that has 256 meg and 300 and 500 setting for the Cpu is much worse than a 6600gt that has 128 meg but 500 and 1000.

[jdrou]

The megabytes that a gfx card has do not mean ANYTHING.
So why aren't we all using 8 MB video cards (minimum for 1600x1200 x 32-bit color framebuffer)? Video memory does mean something, just not as much as the chip speed and architecture. All else being equal, more memory on the card will perform better in 3D games (up to a point at least). And your post isn't very relevant to the original post or mine since it doesn't matter how performance is affected by video memory; the fact is that these chips will use system memory which will then not be available for other purposes. Therefore you should want more system memory than you would with a chip using purely dedicated video memory.

[AK47-Warlord]

what settings do u think this would run at with 1gb RAM, and a 1.66GHz processor

any help appericated!

Those are not for gaming, get an ATI X800pro or higher .... avoid nVidiot cards.

[lil_jimmy_norton]

The megabytes that a gfx card has do not mean ANYTHING. What matters the most is the Core GPU and the Memory Hertz. A 6600 vanilla that has 256 meg and 300 and 500 setting for the Cpu is much worse than a 6600gt that has 128 meg but 500 and 1000.

Not really, but kind of. It depends on the memory interface. If you have a 256MB card with only 128bit memory interface then yes it is pointless, but if you have a 256 bit memory interface then the 256MB will be better.

Such as the 6600 with 256MB ram is pointless.

avoid nVidiot cards.

:roilleyes:

[jdrou]

Those are not for gaming, get an ATI X800pro or higher .... avoid nVidiot cards.
It's true that chip is not recommended for gaming but I've found that nVidia usually out-performs ATI on the games I want to play and I also have had fewer problems with them than ATI. You don't need to hack nVidia official drivers to get them to work on a laptop for instance. Until recently ATI did not support mobile chips at all directly, only through the laptop manufacturer. They still only support limited chips and systems and only on XP.

[AK47-Warlord]

It's true that chip is not recommended for gaming but I've found that nVidia usually out-performs ATI on the games I want to play and I also have had fewer problems with them than ATI. You don't need to hack nVidia official drivers to get them to work on a laptop for instance. Until recently ATI did not support mobile chips at all directly, only through the laptop manufacturer. They still only support limited chips and systems and only on XP.

No nVidia outperformed ATI in the games that I play and BF2 is one of them.

[lil_jimmy_norton]

I don't see why peoble will insult ATIs card or Nvidia cards. Yeah company make perfectly fine cars that are more than capable of playing any games out there, it's really just personal prefrence. Either way you go you can't really lose...

I prefer Nvidia, but Ati makes perfectly fine cards.

[Spik3d]

oh and might as well get 2 gb of ram b/c one just isnt enough for battlefield 2... that is if you dont want a 10 min start up

[AK47-Warlord]

I don't see why peoble will insult ATIs card or Nvidia cards. Yeah company make perfectly fine cars that are more than capable of playing any games out there, it's really just personal prefrence. Either way you go you can't really lose...

I prefer Nvidia, but Ati makes perfectly fine cards.

I have a reason, I had nothing but issues with nVidia cards, since 4600 TI or whatever, once I went to X850XT and up I have nothing but excellent performance.

[lil_jimmy_norton]

I have a reason, I had nothing but issues with nVidia cards, since 4600 TI or whatever, once I went to X850XT and up I have nothing but excellent performance.


Well trust me, there are many more people that have Nvidia cards with no issues.

[SPC C.Calais[82AD]]

I'm an ATI fanboy myself. I loathe Nvidia... Yet even I'm able to realise they are tit-for-tat. It's all a matter of which company you want to support.

Hell. To think that Nvidia and ATI are at each other's throats would be childish. Much like every other market; when two dominate forces realise they are the only thing standing in each others way. The coexist and milk the public for all it's worth.

Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if their CEO's and Board golfed, grew up, or just hang together. Probably share technology and ideas (Of course we wouldn't ever find out about this. Wars produce money in the corporate world).

...one thing I do propose though is knowing how the different cards stack up. For instance, an X1800XT is comparable to a 7800GTX 256, yet not the 512. Which the x1900xtx outperforms, yet is on par with the 7900-Whatever (I don't know the tag on it).

Just pick a company and stick with it until they give you a reason to do otherwise. Although, I would "SERIOUSLY" not suggest buying a workstation GPU for gaming. That's like buying an Excursion for a Fuel Economy.

{WP}Paas

[OpTiCz]

Boo Hiss to you all. The Quadro NVS 120M I have runs awesome. It's the same card as a 7400. Though I didn't have a say in what I got because it's a work supplied laptop, but it runs great. :)

[coolbho3000]

What matters the most is the Core GPU and the Memory Hertz.
Yeah, but that's only part of it. There's also stuff like pixelpipelines, vertex shaders, memory type, memory width, etc.

The absolute BEST way to compare graphics cards is by their model. But you have to know how to do this properly, like that a Geforce 6800 beats out a 7300, a Geforce FX 5950 beats out a Geforce 6200.

Also, the Quadro series is generally bad for gaming because they are optimized for buisness applications. Gaming performance of a Quadro is slightly reduced over the counterpart Geforce series.

A Quadro version of the 7950GX2 can cost over to $2000. Quadro is MUCH more expensive!

[RavenRealms]

I'm an ATI fanboy myself. I loathe Nvidia... Yet even I'm able to realise they are tit-for-tat. It's all a matter of which company you want to support.

Hell. To think that Nvidia and ATI are at each other's throats would be childish. Much like every other market; when two dominate forces realise they are the only thing standing in each others way. The coexist and milk the public for all it's worth.

Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if their CEO's and Board golfed, grew up, or just hang together. Probably share technology and ideas (Of course we wouldn't ever find out about this. Wars produce money in the corporate world).

...one thing I do propose though is knowing how the different cards stack up. For instance, an X1800XT is comparable to a 7800GTX 256, yet not the 512. Which the x1900xtx outperforms, yet is on par with the 7900-Whatever (I don't know the tag on it).

Just pick a company and stick with it until they give you a reason to do otherwise. Although, I would "SERIOUSLY" not suggest buying a workstation GPU for gaming. That's like buying an Excursion for a Fuel Economy.

{WP}Paas

Totally agree with your post.

I'm an ATi fanboy too.

[imported_Killa4live]

what settings do u think this would run at with 1gb RAM, and a 1.66GHz processor

any help appericated!
Am i the only one noticing this guy has a crap 1.66 Ghz CPU? dude! get a complete new PC, cuz if ur gonna upgarde all those things u better just get a whole new one.

[imported_HIV]

I think it is a core dou processor thats why it has 1.66Ghz (NOT CORE2DOU).

[BIFF EXPLODER]

both nvidia and ati have good cards, nvidia has learned their lesson, anyway just try not to get anything with "turbocache" on its name, as simple as that.

turbocache cards are cheap and use the computer RAM for a reason, and that reason is "workstation".

[jdrou]

Am i the only one noticing this guy has a crap 1.66 Ghz CPU? dude! get a complete new PC, cuz if ur gonna upgarde all those things u better just get a whole new one.
1.66 GHz would be crap if it was a Pentium 4 but it isn't. As I said earlier, this is a notebook so it is almost certainly a CoreDuo which should perform like a Pentium M in BF2; i.e. probably like a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4. Not great but not 'crap' either.

[UltrAdamSki]

i love quadros!!! always buy quadros for WORK-stations not gaming-stations.....even ran one for a while in my gaming rig in between graphics cards, it was medium city though for bf2 with lag rearing its head constantly.

nice thoroughbred cards for their target market though.

adam

[Mr Hysteria]

Do you have any tweaks to explain how you got this to work? I have a D 820 with similar, although not identical specs, and I can't prevent CTD from the very beginning of loadup

[jdrou]

Do you have any tweaks to explain how you got this to work? I have a D 820 with similar, although not identical specs, and I can't prevent CTD from the very beginning of loadup
Are you using Dell's video drivers or nVidia's? How much RAM do you have?

[Mr Hysteria]

I've got 1 GB of RAM but an upgrade to 2GB arriving tomorrow. 2GHz core duo processor and the 512 MB Nvidia Quadro card with the NVIDIA 7400 chip. I downloaded the latest graphics drivers from the dell site - am I to assume that this was a bad idea?

Many thanks for any help - I've done pretty much all other tweaks - changed refresh rate (which actually worked on Battlefield Vietnam which wasn't working either), used the video con file tweak which also didn't work and the resolution is set at the 800X600@60Hz. And, of course, EA tech support basically said that they couldn't help. Interestingly, BF2 is the only game I own for which this is a problem.

[beasto2k]

WTF you are an idiot why do people ask how high they can run settings with new hardware, go and click on the BF2 icon and play the game to find out, stop showing saying you got £1000000 graphics card

[LOWrider_NL]

WTF you are an idiot why do people ask how high they can run settings with new hardware, go and click on the BF2 icon and play the game to find out, stop showing saying you got £1000000 graphics card

i agree %100 :)

[Mr Hysteria]

My apologies for requesting assistance on this board - the technical problems are genuine enough, the BF2 and NVIDA testing sites claim that I have more than enough to meet their requirements but I still have the CTD problem.

Perhaps in future responses could be made in a courteous fashion, I didn't log on with the intention of insulting anyone nor do I appreciate the needless and childish diatribes. I'm attempting to alleviate a problem not engage in a debate about whose barbaric yawp is the biggest.