--- copawood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings > > Would appreciate help selecting a graphics card fo > premiere pro 2 and > eventually CS3. Have in mind a BFG Technologies > GeForce 8800 GT OC, as > its price is within my budget (plus or minus > $250.00) since I don't > have any other reasons for the choice I would really > like to have some > suggestions from you more experienced Premiere > users; of course if > card can help rendering a bit faster, wonderful.
The main thing is you don't want a videocard that's too slow because it can be a "bottleneck" that can slow everything else down because the CPU has to wait on the video to process data- even boring old 2D Windows GUI stuff. Some time back, I had a GeForce 3, not the good Ti version, it was one of the cheaper MX. When I upgraded to a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 it was like I had a whole new PC. EVERYTHING was faster because the CPU no longer had to wait for the video. My current system has a GeForce 6500 PCI Express x16, and with the Athlon 64 3500+ CPU it sometimes seems to drag a bit. A 7000 series GeForce would go better with that CPU. If you're running Vista, make sure the card is certified for DirectX 10, especially if you want to use the Aero Glass theme. (There's a way to force Aero Glass on older videocards, but I bet it's a horrible performance hit.) DirectX 10 loads far more graphics processing onto the GPU than 9 does, which frees up CPU cycles for the grunt work. If you want something neat to stress test your videocard with, try some of the demos from Farb Rausch. (Translates from German as "Color Rush".) http://www.farb-rausch.com/ Most of their stuff creates everything on the fly, geometry, textures and audio- all done from complicated equations compressed into the executable. fr-038: theta is one that puts huge amounts of textured, animated objects onscreen, plus animated textures and music. Even my current PC with the GeForce 6500 stumbles a bit in a couple places in it. Newer ones use stuff like Pixel Shader 2.0. I don't know what fr-057.cns: Arancia requires, it's only 4K but pretty neat, yet the two systems I have with Intel integrated graphics won't run it. (The GeForce does.) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/ 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/
