[Erkin Tayhani]

Hi! I’m a musician and couple of years I’m making advertising movies with Vegas. Since I moved up to Cyprus 4 years ago I just take my laptop with me and left my oldie workstation desktop (q9550, 8 gig of ram, gigabyte windforce hd6850 oc edition) in my home town. It’s hard to render anything with i5, 8 gig of ram and insufficent graphic card on laptop . It’s okay while editing, no problem but render times are so long. In that fact, I decided to make budget micro atx/atx desktop with/without my old desktop graphic card. At that point I have some questions;

1. I heard with the new Catalyst drivers we can’t use opencl 1.1 function in sony vegas with 6850 cards. Is it true? Can’t we use it with sony vegas anymore unless installing old drivers?
2. How 6850 card perform with sony vegas? Can I use this card or I need to buy new one?
3. If I need a new one which would it be cheap and good? (r7 360, r9 270x, r9 380… or any other?)

Thanks for your replies.