NVIDIA Quadro 2000 by PNY 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express Gen 2 x16 DVI-I DL and Dual DisplayPort OpenGL, Direct X, CUDA and OpenCL Professional Graphics Board, VCQ2000-PB

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.

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.

I'm not very happy in that nowhere on the Amazon site, the PNY site or the nVidia site is it mentioned that the minimum hardware requirement is quote "Intel Core i5, i7 or Xeon processor or later". This is only printed on the box.I'm running an E6500 processor system with Windows 7-64 Professional and 8 Gb of ram. After booting, Windows Desktop Manager stops.Sending this back and will make sure that I physically have a box in hand before I purchase another graphics card to replace my old EVGA 8800GT.At least it does not require any extra power source.

Despite having two display port and a DVI port, this video card will only support two monitors. Works great for those two, but if you're trying to drive three it's a no go.

The Nvidia Quadro series are for industrial, business applications where stability and performance are required. This is the entry level card for serious graphics. Expect Quadro 2000 cards to be able to run just about any CAD/CAM, geoengineering, process control, OpenGL or DirectX application of that nature. While not a gaming card, per se, they could be used as such. The construction, quality, and testing is evident - this is a very stable, very high performance card.Highly recommended - I use several in my test lab in servers where additional performance over the NVS 300 is required, but it is not necessary to hit the high notes so to speak.They are also well supported in Microsoft Hyper-V RemoteFX applications, Citrix XenServer (version 6.02, 6.1) GPU pass-through, Citrix XenApp, and XenDesktop HDX 3d PRO applications.Highly recommended!

I need this for a customer with a window 10 computer that just bought an Ultra Wide Monitor. The card just worked. No fussing. No downloading drivers. No hair pulling. No cursing. It just worked! Yippee!

So I went through two of these cards for a customer and both got swapped out.The computer I installed this in was a i7 950, 16GB ram, Intel 160GB SSD, Windows 7, and Dual 27" Samsung LCD.My issues with this card is that when used with dual monitor output, it has issues with dropped or stretch images on the second monitor.I'm not sure if it's because the display port to DVI adapter included has issues or the card itself is unable to fully support dual monitors.Both card experience the same fate. I think if the card is ran with display port instead of display port to DVI adapter it might not have this problem, but unfortunately the customers monitor does not support display port.Running this card on a single monitor, no issues were found.