I'm building a computer for a friend doing game design, he wanted an ATI fireGL card and a geforce 8800gtx in the same box. I don't know anything about fireGL cards, would they both work in the same computer?

3/5/2007 9:15:31 PM

stupid as hell, but technically yea you could

3/5/2007 9:24:37 PM

why?

3/5/2007 9:31:34 PM

i don't know, i think so he can model stuff and game. i think fireGL cards aren't on par with gaming cards, they're "professional"

it's at request, i would guess he designs and debugs in applications that would use openGL and then game on the finished product on the 8800

3/5/2007 9:37:12 PM

There really shouldn't be such a massive different as to justify the extra several hundred dollars on another graphics card...

But you know what, it's his money.

3/5/2007 10:20:57 PM

a fireGL card or a Quadro will provide him plenty of gaming horsepower. Sure it may be 20-30% slower than the consumer card equivalent, but still plenty to play with.

Doing both is a complete waste of money

3/5/2007 11:29:52 PM

you'd be hard pressed to find someone doing any sort of personal modeling where the 8800 wasn't adequate. nvidia's lack of good opengl support may be a reason to have both though.

3/6/2007 11:15:34 AM

^for any kind of rendering, it's definitely worth a FireGL or quadro card, or soft-modding to one.

3/6/2007 11:52:14 AM

^ rendering?

3/6/2007 10:32:31 PM