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quadro fx3500 vs fx1500
hey guys
im building a new workstation for premiere cs3 on winXP with HD editing in mind. adobe.com has a list of various supported gfx cards, but the price gaps are pretty huge between some of them. so my question is: is there any reason to get the quadro fx3500 over the quadro fx1500? i’ve only seen performance comparisons with 3d rendering applications, so i’m not sure what the gain would be in terms of video. the fx3500 is about $400 more right now.
thanks!
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Unless you are also going to do high end graphics both cards are overkill, you didn’t mention what kind of HD you were going to do? HDV, HD uncompressed.
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i’m working mostly with dvcproHD footage – if both those cards are overkill for that sort of application, then what do you suggest?
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It would probably be useful to know what sort of video I/O card you have…Xena? Matrox?
The 3500 actually doesn’t have much more going on than the 1500 for a video editor. For CAD or 3d work there is quite a difference. The 3500 would probably have some advantages in maintaining better performance on a lot of simultaneous window redraws for multiple windows open form multiple applications.
As far as going with a lesser card, they both do have dual link DVI so they support 30″ LCD displays…
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i’m working with all P2 data, so i don’t need an HD I/O card – even if i wanted to work uncompressed i couldn’t with the HVX, so…
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