[Sam Bevington]

Hi todd,

i know you cant recommend it, but ive read about this hack thatll add you card to the list of supported cards in ae… i guess i just feel weird having a system with no gpu – id always thought of it as a pretty fundamental part of any decent system (after i sold the old one in my current computer, my screensaver wouldnt run anymore haha!)

so you reckon it serve me better to gert rid of the 8gb ram ive got and fill it with 32gb ram instead, and forget the gpu altogether for now?

[Sam Bevington]

Hi guys, thanks for the quick reply!! Ok couple more questions:

Todd: You said ram would help, and alex said “GeForce GTX-660 Ti may fit your budget”

I’ve found someone selling a brand new GTX 550ti 1GB for $150AU and ive found an extra 8GB corsair vengeance for $50. I’ve read that you need at least 2gb of ram per core for AE to run at top efficiency. so as ive got 8 cores, that should give me a decent boost when added to the 8gb ive got in there already, then id have the extra 1GB graphics card with 448 cores to improve viewport redraws (this is really important as it pretty difficult to do anything substantial modelling wise at the moment!)

Does this sound like a sensible trade-off or am i getting the worst of both worlds??

Thanks again guys!