Remember YOU must ask Solidworks if they support your new card.
For this one I'd look at the current #1 seller at Amazon. Your card is at
https://www.amazon.com/PNY-DisplayPort-Profesional-Graphics-VCQ2000-PB/dp/B0046HSHD0
And down the page is the Nvidia 1050 with 4GB RAM at $154.99 as a best seller.
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-Quadro-2000-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1050-Ti/m7708vs3649 compares these two and it's a nice step up.
HP has more capable Quadros but for many thousand dollars. What would I select? The 1050.
Hello
I have a used Z800. I love it. It has 96 Gig RAM.
The video card is limiting my ability to run Solidworks 3D modelling software.
I get a "GPU memory usage exceded" or something and Solidworks closes. It's a major pain.
The original card is a 1023MB NVIDIA Quadro 2000.
I want to put a good video card in the machine.
I just dont know how good I can go because it's kind of an old PC.
When I run Speccy the specs are as follows.
Can someone recommend a good PCI express x16 Card that should work?
Thanks so much for any help.
Marc
Operating System
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz 40 °C
Westmere-EP 32nm Technology
Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz 40 °C
Westmere-EP 32nm Technology
RAM
96.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Hewlett-Packard 0AECh (CPU0 PROCESSOR) 38 °C
Graphics
DELL3007WFPHC (2560x1600@60Hz)
1023MB NVIDIA Quadro 2000 (HP) 40 °C
Storage
931GB ATA ST31000525SV SCSI Disk Device (SATA) 30 °C
119GB PNY USB 2.0 FD USB Device (USB)
Optical Drives
ELBY CLONEDRIVE SCSI CdRom Device
hp DVD A DH16ABLH
Audio
High Definition Audio Device

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