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High-end AGP 8X graphics card.
NVIDIA RECENTLY INTRODUCED the NVIDIA Quadra FX 4000 graphics card, the latest in its line of speedy AGP 8X workstation graphics cards. As expected, the card's performance was outstanding.
With graphics card technology at something of a crossroads right now, I took the opportunity to test the NVIDIA Quadra FX 4000 graphics card and the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 head-to-head on the same system, with the same video drivers, to evaluate performance differences between the two. I carried out tests on an Intel P4 3.4GHz-based system with 2GB of RAM at our standard 1280X1024 at 85Hz resolution with 32-bit color. See the review on p. 36 for more details on this system.
The FX 4000 requires newer drivers-the standard 56.72 drivers on the NVIDIA Web site at the time I started this review don't recognize it. NVIDIA provided me with the close-to-release 61.71 drivers that work quite well. The current v61.76 drivers now available online support the Quadra FX 4000.
I used the MAXtreme v6.00.07.00 accelerated driver for 3ds max 6 for part of the test process and encountered no problems.
To extend the test results even further, I installed the new PCI Express NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 on...