need a new card

[dj81479]

im looking for a card that can handle maya,3dsm,and all adobe products. i will be doing mostly video editing. I dont have the money to go crazy with price maybe $200 i have heard that a good gaming card can be better that a workstation

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: dj81479
im looking for a card that can handle maya,3dsm,and all adobe products. i will be doing mostly video editing. I dont have the money to go crazy with price maybe $200 i have heard that a good gaming card can be better that a workstation

Sounds like something like this will do you fine : http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814195048

 

[dj81479]

would that one be better than this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814102810

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: dj81479
would that one be better than this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814102810

They're vastly different products. The FireGL 3600 is basically a Radeon 2600 Pro, which is
*much* slower than a 4870 for gaming.

You can usually hack the Radeons to run the FireGL drivers, but if you're not into doing technical tricks and hacks, I wouldn't advise messing with it, if this is going to be on a work box.

If you don't game, and want good driver compatibility with features that those professional apps are going to be looking for, you want to go with a Quadro or FireGL solution.

Almost invariably, the performance of those apps depends much more heavily on CPU and memory than on the video card itself.

 

[dj81479]

thank you very much

 

[dj81479]

so if i go with an i7 and gigabyte board is that to much for this card

 

[Denithor]

Read this post.

Then go pick up either a 3870 (GDDR4), a 4850 or a 4870 (1GB). If you're working with *very* large layouts the 4870 with 1GB video ram could be highly beneficial as the card wouldn't be as prone to exceeding its frame buffer and having to access system memory.

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: Denithor
Read this post.

Then go pick up either a 3870 (GDDR4), a 4850 or a 4870 (1GB). If you're working with *very* large layouts the 4870 with 1GB video ram could be highly beneficial as the card wouldn't be as prone to exceeding its frame buffer and having to access system memory.

That's a bit oversimplified.

http://hothardware.com/Article...n-GPU-Shootout/?page=6

^ this whole article is interesting, as it compares vastly different price-point professional video cards (which you can do the homework and compare the potential desktop version performance when using hacks).

Check out how in benchmark after benchmark, the results are often incredibly close between $150 video cards and $2000 video cards, which are actually using GPUS from budget and high-performance mainstream video cards.

If someone is not going to be gaming, then they don't necessarily need a big power-hungry noisy premium gaming video card. It's not going to help much at best, and at worst, will not offer the feature set without hacked drivers or other workarounds to fully utilize professional workstation applications.

 

[Gnyff]

Check out this: http://www.tomshardware.com/re...irepro-v8700,2154.html

Yes, the Pro and Gamer cards are using the same chips - but the drivers definitely makes a difference. (I'd like to find a hack for a moderate gaming card allowing the use of pro-drivers. Not quite sure if this is legal, though???)

 

[Rick James]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814102770

OR

2 of these

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814102822