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Video Card
Hi Folks,
Can you recommend a suitable video card?
I’m running CS3 on Vista Ultimate 64-bit. I have (I think) a pretty decent hardware set up except for the video card.
I have spent most of this year editing a set of HDV projects, which will run to about 12 hours of finished material.
Within the next month I am going to have to export all the finished edits, and from tests done so far I know this is going to take weeks, rather than days.
I am keen to tweak my system in any way I can that will give me a significant improvement in export time. I will have to weigh up costs to benefits – it’s not worth spending $1,000 on a 5% improvement but it would be for a 40% improvement.
I am reluctant to upgrade to CS4 at this stage as the project is near completion and I don’t want to lose time ironing out any glitches, bugs, compatibility problems etc. I have to say the upgrade to CS3 and Vista was a nightmare, though eventually things did stabilise.
The obvious target for an upgrade is a new video card. I am quite happy with what I’ve got, the only benefit I can see in upgrading would be for improved exports.
My current system specs are;
Graphics Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600GTCPU:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHzRAM:
8GBMotherboard:
ASUS P5N32-E SLI PLUSHard drives:
C drive (project files & media cache etc) NVIDIA RAID STRIPE 931.52GB (2 x 500GB SATA2 drives) 538 GB free
F drive (video and audio files) NVIDIA RAID STRIPE 1.81TB (2 X 1TB SATA2 DRIVES) 502 GB free
G drive (back up for C & F drives) ADAPTEC RAID STRIPE 1.81TB (2 X 1TB SATA2 DRIVES) 155 GB freeMonitors:
2 x Samsung SyncMaster 226BWAny suggestions/recommendations for improving export performance, particularly for the video card, would be most welcome.
Many thanks,
Guy
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1 Reply
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As far as I know, exports are CPU-based, so a new video card won’t get you anything. On the bright side, you just saved some money!
-jeff
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