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2008-05-13 12:38 PM
JP-Design wrote:Just one note: I think the ATI Radeon 8500 is at least 5-6 years old. My current notebook has X700 in it. Before that was the ATI 9xxx series and before that was the ATI 8xxx series so it must be at least 5 years old. Currently ATi is at the x3000 series, which is 5 generation newer than the 8xxx series.
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p.s. Just a bit of more info, FYI
The "8500" you mentioned, MIGHT be made by a different company than the 8600. The two big video card manufacturing companies (they take chips they mane and that are made by other industrial firms and put them on a PCB with fans, and box it up with their logos, etc) are ATI and Nvidia.
ATI made a "Radeon 8500" as part of their "Radeon" brand series, about 3 years ago- really nice video card at the time (still is). Nvidia recently released their "latest" series which is the eight-thousand level- simply a few additional functions above the seven thousand series.
This is just fun facts though, in application all these video cards will work in ArchiCAD. However, if you're looking at using a video card that is a few years old, you'll run into some reduced quality when you use the 3D window WITHIN ArchiCAD- simply things have developed and moved on and the old giant video cards are not as big and capable with the new software requirements as they once were.
In short, if it is an ATI, it will install the same (DL or plug in the drivers CD and install it with the video card, nothing special needed) but if it is an ATI 8500 and you're talking about this newer Nvidia 8600, the Nvidia 8600 will completely TOAST that old Radeon by ATI- as it can handle everything that you do in this software no problem!!!!
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