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Duel boot or emulator?

Seymour Booties
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     Hello! So I currently have a pretty fat computer. I have an i7-8700k, a gtx 1070 graphics card, I have a 500gb m.2ssd and a 2 tb Sara hard drive. Now the issue here is not gaming performance, but professional application performance. I work with his applications and I plan on pursuing my master's degree in GIS after I graduate next year. So I need hardware that's going to be able to keep up. Now, I refuse to get rid of my 1070 because I'm a gamer, but it's absolutely crap in GIS and causes my program to crash when trying to render a massive file (I believe this is due to the gtx drivers). So, long story short, I'm looking at buying a lower end quadro. I know that I would have issues with drivers if I just tried running both at the same time.

     I have a duel screen setup and I would like my 144hz gaming monitor in my 1070 and my 60hz monitor in the quadro. Can I do that? Switch between operating systems and use the card that is not currently in use as a display out because I want a duel screen configuration in both operating systems. Should I just create a partition on my ssd for a second operating system in a duel boot setup? Would this allow me to use the gtx1070 drivers on one and the quadro drivers on the other? Or is emulating another operating system the way to go? I just want to be able to use the once card solely for gaming and the other solely for GIS. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks for your time and expertise.

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What's the problem with Quadro cards? They're actually pretty capable for gaming, not just workstation tasks.

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6 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

What's the problem with Quadro cards? They're actually pretty capable for gaming, not just workstation tasks.

Some aren't though, and that's the problem. Buying a lower-end quadro card most likely wont compare well to a 1070

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2 minutes ago, DaJakerBoss said:

Some aren't though, and that's the problem. Buying a lower-end quadro card most likely wont compare well to a 1070

Could sell the 1070, help fund a Quadro with that. But it makes sense I guess.

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Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

Could sell the 1070, help fund a Quadro with that. But it makes sense I guess.

Depends on OP's workload and the Quadro he's looking at. We don't know either, really (but it would be helpful!!!)

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     Well, i believe i did a poor job of explaining. Currently i'm working on my senior project. i want to use arc GIS to map a fairly large mountain and work with it, but when i do, it often times will crash the program when i attempt to render the 3-d image. I think it's the drivers for my 1070 that cause it to crash. i don't want to get rid of my 1070 as my monitor that i just bought has g-sync and i don't want to just throw my money in the trash. but so far, i don't think it would be possible to just throw in a quadro or radeon workstation card because there would be driver conflict issues.

     so to get around all of this, i want to create a second operating system on my ssd, and on it i would install the drivers for the workstation card and disable the 1070 in device manager. this way i can have one operating system with the 1070 active (and the workstation card disabled) and another operating system with the workstation card enabled (but the 1070 disabled). so essentially i want discreet operating systems for work and play. (just fyi i already know that disabling graphics cards doesn't actually turn them off).

 after doing some research it would seem that the AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100 is the best bang for the buck workstation graphics card that i can find. so would this work? or am i overthinking it. or are their other, more simple options that i'm overlooking?

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Are you sure it's GPU issue? I've worked with fairly big files, at work, at uni and at home and only work PC had Quatro. RAM and loading data from HDD were the most part of issues. What size of files you work with?

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13 hours ago, Seymour Booties said:

the arcmap document is 3,896 KB. i have 16 gb of ram. i've never exceeded eight gigs of usage. also, its all saved on a 500 gb m.2 ssd. is it maybe a software issue? i can't seem to find an answer online. 

Thats small file. So there's something going on with how the 3D render works. This sound like my work PC with too little VRAM, it had older Quatro. Have you tried with fewer point/segments first to even get some image out? Also contacting Esri directly with your hardware config and crash logs might help. They are the ones who could find the issue best.

 

As for what OS config to run. Dual boot will be best for you.

 

 

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