Smart Buy Nvidia Quadro FX580 Pcie 512MB 2PORT Dvi Graphics

The tag line "by Hewlett Packard" should read "FOR HEWLETT PACKARD ONLY!"

This card was purchased to replace an ATI Radion Card that was failing to the point of barely usable.

I work with a dual monitor setup and use Adobe's suite of graphics programs and View 7, etc. So I needed the rendering capabilities inherent with the Quadro series cards. After a thorough explanation of my work and usage habits to Customer/Technical Support at Nvidia, (very limited gaming) they recommended the 370. Given the price, stepping up to the new FX 580 seemed like a no-brainer, and it was.

However, the only choices for card manufacturers were HP and PNY. PNY's Customer/Technical Support ratings were poor so I went with HP. It was purchased on Amazon on a Wednesday evening and it came in on Friday morning. Perfect. Unfortunately, it was not clear prior to purchase that the card was intended for HP workstations ONLY, or that use in other systems would void the...Read more

I tested this Nvidia Quadro FX580 card with Autodesk Maya 2009 on Windows XP 64. In the viewport the fps does not appear to be faster than any other gaming or professional card but as expected the geometry and the wireframe looks great with very decent antialiasing and no artifacts. The color in shader mode ( 5 key) looks more accurate. I was expecting some acceleration with Hight Quality Rendering under the Rendering submenu but it is too slow, way more than the Default Rendering on the same card. 1/4 aprox. in texture mode ( 6 key) and 1/6 in lighting mode ( 7 key). So I am using the Default Quality Rendering. You can feel the card working because it stars slower rotating heavy models and in less that a second it gets to its top speed and stays there. It is very stable, looks great and accurate and never crashes. I have been using this card for more than 2 weeks.

Anyone, like me, expecting faster manipulation, rotating or scaling in the viewport window with professional...Read more

As mentioned by another reviewer, this card is commercialized by HP for HP workstations, and includes a sticker saying that the warranty is void if used in a different machine. Documentation is sparse, and I there is nothing about the card connectors, especially the two on the board. I believe one of them is used for SPDIF audio passthrough to the HDMI/DP connectors, but I will have to do trial and error here. Even though the card is the same one, either sold by Nvidia, HP or PNY, the information and warranty varies, as well as the price. Still I prefer the HP that costs significantly less than the PNY, though now warranty in my case. I used the latest driver from Nvidia site and worked fine.