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New Video Card, DVD copying

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ComatoseDelirium

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Hey all, my dad is getting a new system, he is mainly going to use it for surfing the internet, and dvd copying, creating, and converting avi's to mpegs to be burnt, is a high end video card needed to do that? does a video card directly improve the speed while doing any of those tasks? we are getting it built for us, by a company we know, they are offering an MSI FX5200-TD128, DDR2 128MB 64BIT AGP8X, I know that isn't a great card but would it be suitable for those tasks? if not. Which video card will be good to do so? something in the same family? like a FX 5900? or FX 5900 ultra, or a FX 5800? we are trying to keep it cheap would a Radeon 9600 Pro be a good option? we wouldn't upgrade the card if it isn't needed for what he is going to use it for, any help is appreciated
 
Your video card is not involved at all in video editing and encoding (unless you have certain high-end packages that can use DX9 to do some special effects in hardware). Some video cards can partially offload video decode from the CPU, but any decent CPU nowadays can handle that without a problem anyway. Someday, MAYBE, GeForce6 cards will have some sort of hardware encode acceleration, but so far nothing.

Just buy a cheap video card. You don't need anything special for typical low-end video editing.
 
The FX5200 is terrible for games, but would be fine for those tasks. None of those tasks require much video processing.
 
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