• Adobe After Effects

  Hardware conjecture

  Posted by Mike Falconer on June 21, 2009 at 5:16 pm

  I’m attempting to maximize my current editing machine which is:

  Dual Xeon 3.0Ghz PC
  Supermicro XDAE serverboard
  8 GB Ram
  Vista Business 64 bit
  system drive and storage drives plus internal Raid 0 drives
  Nvidia 9600GSO graphics card (an inexpensive card)

  I am going to double the RAM. My question however is this: Does it make sense to replace the current Nvidia card with something more powerful, such as the Nvidia GEforce 285?

  I don’t understand graphics cards enough to know whether or not it’s worth doing. Any opinions gratefully accepted.

  Todd Kopriva replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Todd Kopriva

  June 21, 2009 at 8:05 pm

  For After Effects, there’s really not much point in getting a top-of-the-line graphics card. For After Effects, you’ll likley be better off spending your money on RAM and extra hard drives before you spend it on a high-end graphics card.

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