about to buy graphic card

[Danny Hays]

The GPU cuda cores only help when rendering AVCHD so that card won’t benefit you with Vegas.
Now with Adobe CS5, it will help with preview framerate.

[Stephen Mann]

Go to the Boris website and look at their list of recommended video boards. Personally, I avoid Radeon because of past driver problems. But, that’s just my opinion.

While your at it, install as much RAM as your motherboard can hold. BCC likes lots of RAM.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[John Rofrano]

[Grzegorz Kwiatkowski] “Although I don’t render to AVC, I am gonna use Boris Continuum Complete 7 and Boris Red a lot, so I thinking about buying NVIDIA with CUDA technology.”

The NVIDIA GTX470 seems to be the price performance sweet spot. I would definitely go with NVIDIA as they have far more support than ATI. Gary Bettan of VideoGuys highly recommends this card in this thread:

Check specs to build a new PC…

VideoGuys publishes the popular DIY builds. These guys have their pick of any hardware they want and this is what they recommend. I would go for it, especially with BCC7.

Personally, I bought an NVIDIA Quadro 4000 and it’s definitely not worth the money unless you are working with CAD or 3D Studio Max. The NVIDIA GTX470 is a better (and MUCH cheaper) choice for video editors.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
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[Grzegorz Kwiatkowski]

thanks John. As I can see there are a few types of NVIDIA GTX470 (Zotac, Gigabyte, Palit, Gainward). Do you recommend a specific one?

[John Rofrano]

I’ve had Zotac cards before and I had no problem with them so I know they are good. I would buy another Zotac card if it were me.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
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