Old video card

[mr soft]

I have rebuilt my system :

Some basic stats : asus a8v deluxe , athlon 64, 939 socket 3200+ 2 gig ram kingston 400mhz .
My question is , I left the old video card in . 3d prophet II mx 64mb . Do you think this is hindering ,or slowing my system .

[Blue_MiSfit]

not unless you play games :)

As long as your card is fully DirectX certified (which a GeForce2 surely is), and has enough video memory to drive your monitor (which yours surely does), there's no point in upgrading it.

Unless of course you play games, or want to use fft3dgpu :D, or if you want video decoding acceleration for MPEG-2 or (if you have a very recent card) for MPEG-4 AVC (H.264). In these instances you need as much horsepower as you can get your hands on.

A select few applications can use GPU acceleration for improved performance like Adobe Premiere, After Effects, aforementioned fft3dgpu filter for AviSynth, etc.

A dual core processor would make a lot of difference though! :D

~MiSfit

[mr soft]

Thanks Blue_MiSfit

not unless you play games

No , Ps2 for that. This is mainly used for encoding ,music and video.

Are you talking gpu acceleration for photo editing type of stuff ? If so , no.
I also run a hybrid capture card .and an Audigy 2 sound card, on this machine .
I´m also going to look at overclocking this thing.
I have never done it ,so I´m going to have a good google first.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Sounds like you're all set up.

fft3dgpu is an awesome filter that I use in almost all my work, but the extra speed over it's software only cousin fft3dfilter isn't worth buying a new video card IMHO.

Glad to be of help
~MiSfit