Video card for non-gamer?

[DaneGuy]

I no longer do any gaming. My rig is mostly for surfing and video encoding. I'm planning on Vista.

What's a good reasonably priced card that will fit my needs? And still be fast as heII. LOL.

Thanks.

 

[Kromis]

7300LE?

 

[acegazda]

integrated gfx. do you already have a pc, or are you looking for a gfx card to go along with your new build?

 

[Fenixgoon]

i would say X1300 for at least some H264 hardware support

 

[DaneGuy]

I'm building a new rig (well, upgrading my current rig). e6400, P5b, Max Sata, don't know about memory yet, don't know about video yet.

 

[acegazda]

are you going to overclock? That rig seems a bit overkill for a video editing and surfing pc...? You can get an intel 965g board for $110...

 

[IEC]

X1300 or 7300 minimum.

Why cripple yourself? Pick up a mid-range card like the X1600 or 7600GT now and you won't need to do the inevitable upgrade down the road.

 

[DaneGuy]

Originally posted by: acegazda
are you going to overclock? That rig seems a bit overkill for a video editing and surfing pc...? You can get an intel 965g board for $110...

Overkill. Isn't that what it's all about? LOL.

I'm probably going to do a lazy man's overclock and just change bios settings.

What speed memory would you recommend for that type of overclocking?

 

[DaneGuy]

Which X1600 or 7600GT?

 

[Cookie Monster]

Both 7 and X1 series give you h.264 acceleration. Pure Video and AVIVO are pretty much equal.
I would suggest something along the lines of 7300GT/GS or X1300pro. If you are looking for abit of performance, 7600GT or X1650pro.

 

[DaneGuy]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Both 7 and X1 series give you h.264 acceleration. Pure Video and AVIVO are pretty much equal.
I would suggest something along the lines of 7300GT/GS or X1300pro. If you are looking for abit of performance, 7600GT or X1650pro.

Even though I won't be gaming I want my stuff to fly!! I'm sure there's a point where it doesn't matter which card I have but I'd like to get right under that point.

So the 7600gt or x1650 will give me my best performance?

 

[postmortemIA]

I noticed that my 7300 go (= 7300LE) handles even dual screens with about 3000x1050 resolution

 

[tuteja1986]

i would wait for few months till 8300 or X2300 comes out. DX10 support , HDCP support and also 1080p H.264/VLC support.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by: DaneGuy

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Both 7 and X1 series give you h.264 acceleration. Pure Video and AVIVO are pretty much equal.
I would suggest something along the lines of 7300GT/GS or X1300pro. If you are looking for abit of performance, 7600GT or X1650pro.

Even though I won't be gaming I want my stuff to fly!! I'm sure there's a point where it doesn't matter which card I have but I'd like to get right under that point.

So the 7600gt or x1650 will give me my best performance?

In that case, 7300GS, passively cooled one or X1300pro. I meant performance in terms of games, but really your just surfing the net, watching movies, hence go for the 7300/X1300.

You could even go with a integrated setup, the 6150 series from nVIDIA.

 

[Gautama2]

Pick up the Asus 7600gs, passive, hdcp, and still pretty fast.

 

[DaneGuy]

Does the video encoding I do require a better card? Or is that all processor?

 

[tuteja1986]

well are you a pro video encoder ;? ... if you just want to encode fast then i suggest getting a ATI Xseries and use AVIVO converter since its is basically the fastest encoder ;(

Video encoding can be benefited by obtaining Quad Core Processor since few Video encoding software are well multi threaded. Use this path if your going to do professionals software.