Hello every one!

I am looking in to buying an Nvidia Quadro FX card for my Media Composer Workstation. I am much entrusted in having my time line to out put form the card to a monitor. So I started looking at the Nvidia Quardo FX 1500. Everything I am reading about the card sounds great! And I like the 40Gb/s memory bandwidth. I have seen that the Nvidia came out with a FX 1700.

Looking into the FX 1700 I can see it’s on a newer chip and has support for new features. Even though it has 256Mb more of memory (512MB total) but its older DDR2 and on a 128Bit bus which brings it down to 12.8 GB/sec. Memory Bandwidth compared to the 40 GB/sec on the FX 1500. The FX 1700 also has a HD decoder and supports DX10 and shader model 4.0

My question to you fellow editors is

Which card will serve me better? I can’t seem to find any benchmark tests or anything that compares the two cards to one and other. What do you feel is the better investment? And why?

Also a side note, I Use Avid Meida Composer 2.8 with After Effects and Lightwave

Thanks to every one!

 Hi,

There's a good post about Nvidia cards here.

good luck,
Carl

Here's a better comparison between the two: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_11761.html

1700 specific .pdf is here: http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/40049/quadro_fx_1700_datasheet.pdf

The 1700 is also PCIe 2.0 compliant, like all of the new x700 line of cards

Get the 1700, you won't regret it.

HTH.

 Hey thanks guys for your quick posts back!

Im going to head over and read the links you guys posted. My motherboard is Tyan S2696 and will not take advantage of the PCIe 2.0. Since its only a PCI2 x16. 

Alright so I went to links the first one, I have checked out before. I didnt want to post there couse I felt like it was going on another direction. The other links, One, I used to compare the FX1500 to the FX1700.  The PDF link is great but it only gives the information that's already on Nvidia site.

Im just wondering if there is loss in performance with the FX1700 since the Memory Bandwidth is much smaller then of the FX1500.

Another question poped into my head is these cards have HD-Out. Which is the main reason Im looking at them. Can this be done with Geforce cards since they too have HD-out? Or is the HD-Out on the Quadro cards more intended for programs such as Avid?

Thank you for all your input

 Just to give an up date, I posted the same question at graphic forums page and I got the answeres I needed, I'll Post them here if any one if wondering the same thing, or if any one see's and anything wrong with it. Thanks again to every one.