Well I agree with you there. Unfortunately there are limited funds so I am trying to make sure we can make do. I was quoting the following 3 cards:
K4000 – 768 CUDA
K2000 – 384 CUDA
K600 – 192 CUDA
There are a few computers but this will be added to just one for now and I am hoping some of the issues resolve themselves by doing this (what the issues are, I am not sure – I just know they run into performance issues). My job in this situation is to figure out what we can do to improve performance and before I started troubleshooting the issue I noticed that their video cards were not exactly designed for this.
Sample workstations:
E5700 3GHz + 4GB RAM and Onboard Video
Core i3 2100 3.1GHz + 4gb RAM with Radeon HD 6450 1GB
Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz + 8gb RAM with Geforce GTX 470 1.2GB (best so far)
Core i7 2.8GHz + 8gb RAM with Onboard Video
These are all running a suite of Sony software: Vegas Pro 12, ACID Pro 7, Sound Forge Pro
I am also looking at the M-Audio 2496 as a sound card option rather then onboard sound. There were complaints about audio issues when recording voices and to my knowledge this isn’t wise with an onboard card and not using a mic preamp.