NVIDIA Graphics Cards VCQK4200-PB

I built a video editing computer according to specs I read on a tech website. It called for both a Quadro K4000 GPU (not this K4200) and a GeForce GTX780. The idea was that the GeForce provided the superior rendering performance while the Quadro K4000 provided the stability and 10-bit processing for color adjustments and grading. The Quadro is the recommended board by Adobe for serious editing work.To be honest, I saw no difference whether the Quadro was installed or not, but it's impossible to tell what's really going on under the hood. I became concerned because someone at PNY told me that they did not recommend nor support the two GPUs be installed in that configuration. I returned the K4000 because I could not justify the price tag for no discernible results. Then, I decided to build another computer for a different purpose and at the time this Quadro K4200 was released. I must say that both the Quadro K4000 and the K4200 perform well. Unlike the GTX780, the Quadro is much smaller, lighter, and stays cooler under loads. Its size and weight helps because I'm building a portable system. And of course I prefer the 1 GB increase in VRAM over the K4000.

I have an older computer (12 years old) and have placed the "strongest" CPU in it that the ancient motherboard will run but the graphics kept bottlenecking on me. This graphics card alleviated those problems!

The video card works fine, but the same did not happen with the adapter which is useless.

Seems snappy and quick and smells good (like electronics) coming out of the package. But this is only from what lititle I've used it. I've read that a lot of motherboards prior to a certain date are not sli capable, but mine is however my intention to use this card in the short term and potentially longterm in an sli configuration under kvm with vfio/vga pass through to a virtual machine may not fair well.. I hope I don't have to dual boot to get the "full bla bla bla quadro experience" plus if you trust the fanatical benchmarks on the Web the gtx980 is supposedly faster but I like this one it's slim, feels well built has good video connectors and promises of resolution that I can't stand to compromise with. Doesn't seem to run very hot either... we'll see.

Between K2200 graphics card and an SSD upgrade, old i5-750 PCIE 2.0 machine is running much smoother and reasonably fast on Win10. Extended its usefulness a few more years.

The Quadro line of GPUs is very expensive as GPUs go so you would expect that they would work really well. The first k4200 that I purchased would run for about 30 minutes before freezing my work station. As long as I was not using the GPU, it would work fine. But, when ran the GPU circuits for 10-30 minutes, zap, black screen. I spent an hour on the phone to PNY trying to find out what is going on. Tried it in different work stations, T5500 and 2 different T3500s. Same problem. No ideas from PNY. So I returned it to Amazon. (Amazon return was great!) A few weeks later I decided to give another K4200 a try. It ran for 36 hours before freezing the work station just like the previous unit. I may send this new card back too.

Great cards at a good price. You can shop around and find quite a variation in price on these 4200 cards. We use with Citrix XenApp in a HP server for dedicated high end OpenGL apps. Work great with the right combination of XenServer, XenDesktop. Very high performance for CAD/CAM.

Brand name. Well supported. Still a great product even though it’s an older generation. Low energy consumption so it seems to run cool at least for my purposes.

Gut