Graphics Cards VCQK4200-PB

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

Please know these cards CAN NOT be SLIed. Only on Nvidia approved OEM systems, can SLI work with quadros. AMD does offer a solution with W8100 and W9100. But Quadros, though better, can not be configured in SLI for home built systems. Bummer.

The card works great, renders a faster viewport and playblast on maya 2015 with a heavy load. The only downside is that PNY sent me a displayport to DVI-D adapter, and a DVI-I to VGA and they wont fit together. I spent a whole day looking for a displayport adapter in my area without results. All because of a packaging mistake I believe.

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.

Gut