--- Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given a limited budget, am I better off with more > RAM or a video > editing card? I guess it's a speed vs money thing, > but if I could find > an "acceptable" video editing card for under $300 I > suspect that would be the way to go.
More RAM is the way to go. A faster CPU will also help, especially if the front side bus (FSB) speed can be increased. If your motherboard supports dual-channel RAM operation, get the DIMMs in matched pairs for that. Many boards have the pairs of DIMM sockets color coded to make it easy to know which go together. If your board has an odd number of slots, it doesn't support dual channel. A faster videocard _can_ speedup the overall performance of a PC, if the existing card is slow enough to be a bottleneck. On my previous PC I had a GeForce 3MX 4xAGP card with something like 64 or 128 megs RAM. When I upgraded to a GeForce 4Ti 4200 4x AGP with 256 megs RAM it was like I had a new computer. Everything ran faster because nothing had to wait on data going to the slow videocard. 3D acceleration does NOTHING for video rendering. It'd be nice if there was a blazing fast, no 3D, PCIe x16 card optimized specifically for 2D video editing and rendering. But that'll never happen because 3D games are the biggest force pushing video GPU development now. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
