What is the best video card for video editing w/ Premiere under $200?

[Shuelessjo]

My GeForce3 Ti200 just ain't cutting it for me anymore. I want something better, for under $200 that will speed up my video editing in Adobe Premiere.

My system currently consists of a XP 1700+ CPU and 512 MB PC2100. I will be upgrading to XP 2100+ (max my mb supports) and 1.5 GB PC2100 memory.


What are your reccomendations?

 

[DTSS]

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Best card for the money on the planet! I have the leadtec series Geforce 4

 

[LethalWolfe]

A 3D video card will speed up your manipulation of 2D video by a factor of zilch. Proc speed, RAM, and good data thru put are your friends. You could also save up some more $$$ and buy Vegas Video (more Real Time ability than Premiere).


Lethal

 

[wicktron]

Matrox is your DV friend.

 

[selfbuilt]

I agree with Lethal ... upgrading from a GeF3 won't make any difference for video editing. Frankly, you are limited by your current 266MhZ FSB system. You would be much better served by an Nforce2 board with a Barton XP2500+ and at least PC2700 ram (or PC3200 if you want to o/c the Barton to a 400MHz FSB, which most can easily do it seems). Also, a nice fast hard drive would help.

 

[bluemax]

Better check into which CPU's do video editing best... you might be wise to switch to that processor/mobo/RAM setup. Your video card does little or nothing to assist the editing process.

I'd be inclined to think a P4 w/ 800FSB would handle this better than an AMD XP+ w/ 333FSB.... but I'd check into more official benchmarks, I'm purely speculating.

 

[Shuelessjo]

Cool! Good info everyone! Thanks!