Graphics Cards

[Tim Kolb]

I have a PNY NVIDIA 4500, but I’m finding that it’s impossible to use for HD overlay with the Xena card as the card wants to do the display. The NVIDIA card does many effects, etc, faster, but the Xena I/O is apparently not designed to be shared at this point…

The 4500 will drive the graphics applications really well though…

TimK,

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[Trevor500]

Hi Tim

Thanks for this. It’s not really what I am looking for though as this card runs at 109watts. I want to get under 50 watts!

The Geforce 7900GT runs at just under 50 watts but I don’t know if it will do the job!

Kind regards

Trevor

[Tim Kolb]

The gamer cards will render less assistance to video production/image editing workstations than the pro cards.

While there is Open GL support on the consumer cards, the professional cards offer far superior multiple window interface accelerathion and 3d rendering capability that serves 3d composition software (as opposed to just the more consumer-oriented 3d game display acceleration).

I don’t track power consumption on these things as I don’t build systems, I jusrt use them, but perhaps the Quadro 1500 or one of the smaller pro cards uses less power?

The GeForce card probably won’t hurt anything of course…it would most likely be fine, but with the Xena card you have video overlay for all the Adobe apps, so you don’t need output or second/third monitor video out therefore by going with a larger display card you are left with UI acceleration as the primary advantage. The consumer cards are OK, but in your case, I might recommend looking at a simple dual head card if power consumption is an issue.

TimK,

Kolb Productions,
Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net