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Which Graphics-Card to buy?
I’m now building the cheapest Avid editing alternative ever.
These are the spec:
ECS P4F Extreme motherboard (with P915 and ICH6 chipset)
Intel Celeron D processor
DDR2 (533MHz) Memory
Western Digital S-ATA III guess I wouldn’t use the integrated FireWire and Audio? Should I buy PCI-E cards for these functions?
I’m pretty sure this will work okay, as I’m now editing on my DELL Lattitude mobile with P4 1.8Ghz and NVidia Geforce4Go.
The question now is what kind of Graphic Card should I use? Nvidia Geforce-series or ATI Radeon series?
I know people using both systems, but I’ve never really seen any difference. I know Avid is only recomending Quadro, though – but thats too expensive for now. I’m right now thinking about GeForce 6200TC or GeForce 7300GT.What you guys think?
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1 Reply
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1. Regardless of whether the Firewire is on the MB or a card, it has to have a Texas Instruments chipset to work with Avid.
2. For a video card use what Avid recommends if you want the system to work correctly. For all other video cards, your mileage may vary.
3. You’re way short on RAM. If your RAM memory fill up completely, your system will slow to a crawl as Windows spools everything out to virtual memory on your hard disk.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City
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