Can I use a Quadro FX1400 for editing and another for gaming?

[IslandStylin]

I am currently building a worstation for HD video editing. A friend of mine is giving me his old Quadro FX 1400 card to use. Hopefully it will be able to edit HD video footage in avid. (I doubt it, but I am hoping). On another post I had up in general hardware someone mentioned I had to choose between editing and gaming. I want to do both. I would like to be able to play games such as Diablo 3 (when it comes out) starcraft, and some FPS games.

Is it possible to team my quadro card up with another card for gaming? I haven't the slightest idea....

thanks for your input

 

[RavenSEAL]

Uhhhh, FX 1400?

Noooo

 

[nanaki333]

sure. my main workstation at work has a 5670 for displaying to my 3 displays, and i have a gtx 570 in there folding. i played a couple games on it too by plugging my display in to the 570 and got some nice frames. having said that, i do not know if it will work for 2 nvidia cards, but it works with them mixed.

 

[IslandStylin]

So if I am using the quadro fx 1400 for one of them, what would you recommend for the other run to play some good games that came out this year?

I am running this on a i5 2500k with 8gb of ram.

 

[Arkaign]

I think the FX 1400 is based on the Geforce 6xxx series iirc? Too old for any gaming imho.

Even $50 new cards would run circles around them for any purpose, professional or gaming.

 

[IslandStylin]

I know the FX 1400 is not good for games. I only want to use that card for editing HD footage on AVID. Avid requirements are NVIDIA QUADRO cards..not saying it wouldn't work on another card, but those are the only ones supported on their site.

So I want to buy a separate card to run games. I don't know if you can do that though....Sounds like you can, but do you have to constantly change the plugs and inputs? And which card is recommended if I can do this?

thanks guys for the input so far

 

[Stuka87]

I think the FX 1400 is based on the Geforce 6xxx series iirc? Too old for any gaming imho.

Even $50 new cards would run circles around them for any purpose, professional or gaming.

Yeah its uses the same chip as a 6800. It was pretty good at the time, but is next to worthless these days. Even for doing what it was designed for its pretty slow.

As for having two videos cards, you can do that if you run them each to a different monitor. But your board would have to support both cards. If thats an FX 1400, is it an AGP or PCIE 1.0 version? Both were made as I recall. If it is PCIE, then you need to basically run two monitors, one hooked up to each video card.

But honestly, I would be willing to bet there are 50 dollar videos cards that would blow that FX 1400 out of the water in terms of video editing performance. Hell your processor may just be faster than it.

 

[nanaki333]

if you have just 1 display, and it has hdmi and dvi, just plug both cards in to it and change inputs

 

[Stuka87]

Or if it has VGA and DVI, you could do it that way. You will just have to move your mouse back and forth between each "display" when you switch inputs. And then the windows task bar will always be on one, and not the other, and so on.

 

[IslandStylin]

Thanks guys...A lot of good info on here.

So it seems that the graphics card I am getting is a pos. Oh well, I will try it out and hope it at least works for editing HD video.

Has anyone else on here edited in AVID with a different gpu? Besides the super expensive QUADRO cards? At best I would buy the $200 one if need be....

What cards would you recommend if I wanted to play Starcraft 2 with no hiccups on the cheap?

 

[Subyman]

FX1400 was a relatively low power card, so if it will work with your video editing that could be a good thing. No way will it run games though. I would just get a newer card and see how the processor handles your video editing tasks. It may be all you need.

 

[IslandStylin]

Tell me if I am wrong here or not. If I buy a chipset that is capable of running crossfire and SLI I am better off for having two gpu cards?

 

[Stuka87]

AVID gains almost nothing from an SLI setup.

 

[Subyman]

Tell me if I am wrong here or not. If I buy a chipset that is capable of running crossfire and SLI I am better off for having two gpu cards?

Also consider that nvidia cards only support 2 monitors while AMD eyefinity labeled cards support at least 3 displays. Since you are using the computer for work, you may be in need of multiple monitors.

 

[ClockHound]

From the min. spec for MC5+ the answer is no. The Fermi based Quadro 600 would be the lowest level card to work, but the Quadro 2000 is the usable minimum.