Thanks ymboc.
I'm not putting out ATI either, in fact, I've always been happy with ATI.
In this case though, whatever gets me the performance I want, will work, NVidia or ATI. Solidworks 2003 is #1 on my list of wares, and I only run sim games which don't require any fancy graphics, so I don't really care much about performance, but I'd like to get my $200 ($250 max) worth of performance.
I put the Q out on Guru3D, here:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread....threadid=84932
As I listed, the available VCs within my price range are:
NVidia chipset:
5200
5200 Ultra
5600
5600 XT
5700
5700 Ultra
5800
5900
5900XT
5900SE
ATI chipset:
7500
9000 Pro
9500
9600
9600XT
9600Pro
9700
9700Pro
9800
9800SE
9800Pro
FireGL 8800
BTW, the NVidia 5200 series looks like a poor candidate for a Quadro mod, so that's out (no big loss
).