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  Another render question

  Posted by Richard Milner on November 21, 2011 at 12:35 am

  I have a 3.2 GHz dual core with 4 gigs of ram. It is pretty fast on all my video editing. My video card is built onto the motherboard and I do plan some day to purchase a high end video card.

  Now the question I have is, will I render any faster with a separate video card with its own processor? Or is the rendering process done on the motherboard cpu.

  My cpu is max out when rendering but I don’t know if it is the rendering of the processors or the video using the motherboard cpu to process.

  If I need to go ahead and buy a new video card, are there any recommendations.

  Blessings!
  Rich

  Richard Milner replied 14 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  John Rofrano

  November 21, 2011 at 1:02 am

  If you want your render to be twice as fast, get a Quad Core CPU. If you want your renders to be 3x as fast, get a Hex Core CPU. There is no way a new GPU will come anywhere close to adding more CPU cores. GPU acceleration is highly overrated and mostly disappointing.

  ~jr

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  Steve Rhoden

  November 21, 2011 at 2:52 am

  QUAD CORE all the way Richard (as John said)…QUAD CORE.
  HEX CORE if you can afford it….lol

  Steve Rhoden
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  Richard Milner

  November 21, 2011 at 4:21 am

  Steve, I looked at my motherboard and found it will handle a Quad Core but getting that one is going to be difficult. Unless my computer distributor can get it cheaper, I will have to wait until those suckers drop.

  Thanks for the advice.

  Blessings!
  Rich

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