PNY VCQ2000-PB - Nvidia Quadro 2000 Graphics Card - 1GB GDDR5 - 192 CUDA Core

This Video card works well for being a used one and for the price I paid... thank you.

I edit video on a Windows 7 Professional system, using Avid Media Composer 6, Avid Studio and and Adobe Premier Pro and this card works beautifully. The card makes the process fly with no hangups. Most people don't use three NLEs (non linear editors) but on my system, each one is installed on separate drives.Highly recommended for someone who needs high quality on a moderate budget. Apparently does not support multiple monitors.

The CAD industry loves to pate itself on the back and charge high fees with pedigree hardware requirements and legacy software deeply rooted in the 90's...apparently forever. This card is now a legacy item. Is the solution near the level of enthusiast - grade options in terms of packaging and cooling solutions? No. Instead clever little manipulations of the firmware distinguish an engineering card from a gamer card. Conformal coating and claimed higher grade PCB parts round out the purported benefits, however much more robust solutions to combat semiconductor failure exist at the consumer price points. Enthusiast-grade components vastly out distance solutions like the midrange CAD card market.Remarkably, the industry continues to sell a solution that falls behind the consumer level product, but for double or triple the price distinguished in terms of functionality only by some firmware manipulations. These market sector offerings are characterized as "special" thru target marketing campaigns. Is the solution really better? The PNY version of this card employs a laptop cooling solution in several different versions and incorporates PWM fan control that remains stuck at 30%. The fan isn't a fan, instead it resembles a thimble sized paddle wheel (on the version incorporating the smaller heat sink.) The heat sink material had already separated from the heat sink on two different units, seared to perfection. Generally without corrective surgery, the cards, depending on the PCI bus position race towards 60 degrees centigrade and higher regularly. The PWM function never increases the fan speed.Although functional, the pricing vastly exceeds gamer equivalents at each performance tier, and typically, does not incorporate a suitable cooling solution, which so far, in this case cannot be improved using aftermarket solutions because of "unique i.e. non-conforming mounting requirements. The NVIDIA drivers are well done, however downloading NVIDIA INSPECTOR, a utility authored by an independent publisher, provides a meaningful method to adjust the fan speeds and avoid sustained nuclear meltdown temperatures. Now the cards operate at under 60c while performing under sustained load.Also note that many of the NVIDIA/PNY cards still do not support PCI Express 3x. Can you use a gamer card instead? No-because of proprietary manipulations in the CAD industry mostly revolving around 2D drawing features can result in poor drawing and model results. Strangely all top shelve games seem to work great with the alternative. Another industry claim is that the driver development justifies the price. Does this mean all other GPU solutions are inherently defective?Either the system solution can find a pixel or it can't...why the ruse.

New montiors have display port and are higher res. Needed new cards that can drive them. These are great without breaking the bank IMO.

I use this with Autocad Inventor and it works great. Very little lag time on VERY large models. It spins a 500 Meg file in 3d rather well. If I could have afforded the more expensive one at the time Q4000 I'd have gone that route.