JayNewWeb wrote:
Out of curiosity, I just put some HP EliteDesk 800 quad machines into the office, with i7 processors and SSDs and I put in a GeForce GT 630. Is that going to be faster than my 5-year old AV workstation, do you guess? (I found it's about five years old, not seven.)
Yes and no. You see, the office PCs have subjectively faster CPUs than your current AV workstation. Unfortunately, the office PCs may have only a truly single disk (that means an SSD with no physical HDD to supplement the SSD). What's more, the GT 630 that you put in was a waste of money, given that most retail versions of the GT 630 in existence are not true Kepler parts to begin with, but are instead rehashed old lower-end Fermi parts (in this case, the retail GT 630 is nothing more than a GT 440 with only 96 CUDA cores and DDR3 memory with a lousy 28 GB/s memory throughput instead of the faster and more desirable GDDR5 memory). As such, the GT 630 would be even slower than even the Quadro 2000, let alone the GTX 470.