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Video card recommendation?
What does everyone think of the dual-VGA 256MB PNY GeForce FX 5200 video card for Premiere Pro? I currently am operating a PC with an AMD Athlon XP 1600 and 2 gigs of PC3200 DDR SDRAM and hundreds of gigs of hard drive space, but my old dual-VGA-output Matrox Millenium G400 video card has a weenie 32MB on it (actually, maybe only 16MB). When I play a project in PP7’s monitor window, the CPU is pegged at 100% utilization and the video appears rather choppy at “Best quality” setting.
Anyway, I think upgrading to a more powerful graphics card will help a lot. Feedback please…or even recommendations! I do need to stay with dual-VGA output.
Thanks!
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A video card wont help with real time playback…your CPU is the real wiennie there. You will need at least a 3 Ghz HT P4 or better.
A better video card will help with GUI redraws and other display lag issue and the NVidia cards work well. -
I was afraid you were gonna say that, but I had to ask to make sure. Thanks so much for the input.
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A new video card won’t help at all. You can upgrade your XP 1600 to an Athlon XP 3200+ and that will help a heck of a lot more. You don’t need a P4 3GHz HT for SD work, but you certainly should upgrade your motherboard as far as it will go. Luckily you already have PC3200 ram so that’s not an issue.
I did exactly this 6 months ago and love the results. I’m running an AMD Sempron 3300+ (this is the maximum this technology will do), 200MHz FSB.
The one drawback: You can’t run Premiere Pro 2.0, only 1.5. 2.0 requires SSE2 instructions, and the Barton core series (Athlon/Sempron) only does SSE (not SSE2). For that, you *will* need to upgrade to a modern processor.
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Thanks; where did you find your Sempron 3300, and what “socket” does it fit? My MOBO is a Socket 462 / Socket A. I can’t find Socket 462-fitting chips at the popular parts houses (TigerDirect, etc.).
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I found mine using pricewatch (https://www.pricewatch.com/cpu/sempron_3300+.htm) but you could just as easily find it on ebay. Mine is Socket A, just like yours. I have a Sempron 3300+. $60.
Make sure your motherboard can take a Sempron… mine needed a BIOS update to support it.
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Thanks!
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