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On 14/08/2008, at 4:44 AM, Nowell, Cameron wrote:

>           I owuld like to disagree with Craig. There are now quite a  
> few programs that use the graphics card to process 3D data in real  
> time now. MetaMorph, Imaris, Volocity, 3D Studio, Olympus FV1000,  
> Leica LAS AF just to name a few.
>
> There is an enourmous ammount of choice out there in the graphics  
> card market, but my recomendation (and the recomendation of many  
> other people) is to buy the best GAMING card you can afford. While  
> each graphics card manuafacturer has "Workstation" class cards that  
> cost a heap of money, these cards oare not really any better than a  
> good gaming card. So avoid things like the Nvidia Quadro, ATI  
> FirePro or Wildcat Studio type of cards.


Here is a recent "value" analysis of gaming cards...

http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00034.htm

Adrian