What's the usual frame rate with this card? With all of the AI cars on? Online?

As much as your CPU would allow. LFS is heavily CPU-dependent, so if LFS performance is what you're after you should prioritize getting a decent CPU. Although, it being a Quadro-card i guess it would degrade your performance a bit, so I would get a consumer-grade card instead if i were you.

Erm, A Quadro is for OpenGL rendering - a workstation card, why on Earth do you have one? iirc they cost the Earth!

EDIT - It's in a £700 laptop no less O_o. Some of the Quadro's could be flashed to being a GeForce and vice versa but since the 7xxx series nVidia tightened all this up and i doubt you could.

Laboratories sometimes just give away capital to friends or family when it was funded with external money, and it's paid itself off. Just one of many possibilities.
Surely some bored rich guy has in mind to game on nVidia's new Tesla..

Thanks for the replies, now I know.

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Erm, A Quadro is for OpenGL rendering - a workstation card, why on Earth do you have one? iirc they cost the Earth!

EDIT - It's in a £700 laptop no less O_o. Some of the Quadro's could be flashed to being a GeForce and vice versa but since the 7xxx series nVidia tightened all this up and i doubt you could.

Not really, you can get a mobile quadro on a $1700 Dell laptop... or on an $800 dell desktop... It really depends which version of the quadro you get ;-)

Anyone who is an engineer IRL (such as me) would have a laptop/desktop with a quadro/FireGL video card ;-)

The quadros support DirectX so it should work just fine, just a CH slower then a consumer grade card, but just fine.

^ "ch"?