Workstations

HP Workstation Event: Z Series take serviceability to new levels

Posted by Greg Corke - March 30, 2009

#4: It’s been a frustrating few days for me. Not only because I had to leave sunny LA at the…

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Workstations

HP Workstation Event: HP to offer twelve core workstations this year

Posted by Greg Corke - March 30, 2009

HP’s AMD-based workstation, the xw9400, is to support six cores per CPU #5: With all the hype surrounding HP’s new…

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Hardware

PNY Nvidia Quadro FX testing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 29, 2009

Nvidia recently updated its CAD-focused Quadro FX family of professional graphics cards. Greg Corke put all four cards through their…

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Visualisation

Do graphics cards hold the secret to photorealistic real time rendering?

Posted by Greg Corke - July 27, 2009

Last week I saw a very slick demo of a brand new rendering, animation and composition package called MachStudio Pro…

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News

AMD takes the fight to Nvidia at the high-end of professional graphics

Posted by Greg Corke - July 28, 2009

For years AMD (and before it ATI) has been happy to exist only in the mainstream professional graphics market, but…

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Hardware

The best graphics cards for running Solidworks

Posted by DEVELOP3D - August 14, 2009

When choosing a professional graphics card for SolidWorks bigger is not always better. It depends on the types of models…

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News

CAD software support for Windows 7

Posted by DEVELOP3D - January 5, 2010

After coming to terms with some teething problems in Microsoft’s new OS, Rob Jamieson is already looking forward to full…

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Hardware

Full steam ahead

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 10, 2010

Clean Power Technologies is bringing steam power bang up do date. But when the company moved to high definition 30-inch…

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News

AMD ATI FirePro V8800 sets SolidWorks 2010 on fire

Posted by Greg Corke - April 8, 2010

For the last 24 hours I’ve been sat in a dark room playing with AMD’s brand new professional graphics card,…

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News

Nvidia launches Fermi-based Quadro graphics cards (plus Quadro 5000 benchmark)

Posted by Greg Corke - July 27, 2010

Nvidia’s new Quadro 5000 features 2.5GB GDDR5 memory It’s been a long time coming, but today at Siggraph 2010 Nvidia…

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