VIDEO CARD

[Mike Smith]

Hi Willie

The Athlon 3500+, that’s one of the new 64bit ones with SSE2 support, is it? I don’t know whether that works with PPro 2 or not – no doubt you’ve checked it out.

So by video card do you mean capture card, or graphics accelerator? And what would you want the capture card to do, that a firewire card doesn’t – are you thinking broadcast, or vhs, or hd .. ?

[Blast1]

You should be able to find a ATI X800 chipset card under $200, likewise a Quadro FX540 for just over $200, Newegg has refurbished ones for under $180.

[Willie Toth]

Thanks … WILLIE

[Mark Weaver]

Willie,
Just noticed this message. PPro 2.0 utilizes the NVidia 7800 hardware
for real time rendering. Presently, the ATI isn’t supported. I’ve been
looking into this as well and AE7.0 as well as Magic Bullet for Editors v2
use the 7800 series chip for real time render support.

Mark

[Norman Lafranchi]

Either that or a 6800 series NVidia card with 128 MB of RAM could probably be had for less than $200.

[George Loch]

You will want to stick with Nvidia H/W for the moment as they have the best OpenGL implementation. For $200, I would see if you could find either a discounted 6800GT or a 6800GS. The 7800GT or GTX is more ideal but, they are also in the $300 range.

-gl