Video Cards – MCI Makes Crap?

[John Rofrano]

[Ken Bennett] “If I have to buy a new card, who do you recommend and which card?”

I would go with PNY. They make the high end Quadro cards and I assume they do a good job with the consumer cards as well. I’ve been very happy with my PNY Quadro 4000.

~jr

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[Ken Bennett]

John, do you have a good source to purchase the PNY Quadro 4000?

Ken Bennett
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[Ken Bennett]

Just noticed the Quadro 4000 is a signal output card. I need dual monitor output.

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[John Rofrano]

[Ken Bennett] “John, do you have a good source to purchase the PNY Quadro 4000?”

I buy all of my computer hardware from newegg.com. They have great prices and also a great return policy.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Ken Bennett] “Just noticed the Quadro 4000 is a signal output card. “

I’m not sure where you got that impression but it has 3 outputs, 2 of which are available at any one time. I have two ASUS ProArt PA246Q (1920×1200 Widescreen) monitors connected to it via the 2 display port outputs.

~jr

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[Ken Bennett]

OK, I see it comes with a DVI to VGA adapter. That will support my current 2 VGA computer monitors. My plan is to replace one of the VGA monitors, which is use as my Vegas playback monitor, with an HD studio monitor. using the Q4000 card, will I get true real-time Vegas playback from the timeline? Or do I need something like a BlackMagic I/O for that? Plus the BM card will give me all my analog I/Os as well. What do you suggest?

Thanks.

Ken Bennett
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[John Rofrano]

[Ken Bennett] “using the Q4000 card, will I get true real-time Vegas playback from the timeline? Or do I need something like a BlackMagic I/O for that? Plus the BM card will give me all my analog I/Os as well. What do you suggest?”

Vegas Pro 11.0 will take advantage of the Quadro 4000 to provide smoother playback from the timeline. Whether it is real-time or not depends on a lot of things, including how powerful your CPU is, what format the source video is, and what FX you have applied. I don’t believe the BlackMagic I/O card will affect real-time playback at all but I’ve never used one.

~jr

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