Luc Monod wrote:

Don't touch the professional video cards for gaming (Maybe the NVIDIA
Quadro would be ok). They are solely meant to be stable using 3D
apps and are not made to perform fps wise.

That's not true. I've been gaming with Quadro and FireGL cards for years...

The Nvidia Quadro and ATI FireGL use the same GPUs like the "gaming cards".
In games they perform the same like the cheaper consumer cards (Geforce and
Radeon). The only problem is the ATI FireGL driver which uses settings fixed
on "quality" which is slow and doesn't provide any tabs for changing any of
these settings. With utilities like RageTweaker You can change the settings
like You can do on a generic Radeon card. With the Nvidia drivers it's
different, with Quadro cards You get much more settings in the control
tab...

Both FireGL and Quadro perform equally well on Games like the corresponding
Geforce and Radeon models...

Anyway, FireGLs seem to always have bugs when running CAD
applications and suck for games (Precision 470 here, also w/ a V3100).

The ATI drivers always had problems with OpenGL. The FireGL drivers are
better than the Radeon drivers but still not as good as the drivers from
Nvidia...

Benjamin