jfcarbel
24th June 2011, 18:44
My needs:
I don't play any games, but am very much into movies, encoding, and video editing. I often use BD-Rebuilder, ProShow, and Vegas Video. I plan to eventually edit HD video from consumer camera, but will not do much special effects so not much rendering needed. Just cutting, editing, and then will probably use x264 to encode the edited HD file.
With that in mind what are some suggestions for video card for my system? Current system is GA-EP35-DS3R with Intel Q9650. Also should mention that I plan to upgrade in 2012 to Sandy Bridge-E chips with the planned Intel six-core chips. This will have the X79 chipset which will be PCI Express 3.0, so not sure how that might effect my card buying decisions today, that is, will a PCI Express 2.1 card work in PCI Express 3.0.
I have been looking at HD5450 and GT 220. Both have good power consumption. Both support DXVA 2.0, but there looks to be more grumbling from ATI users with a quick Google
Seems there were some issues with audio crackling, etc on the HD5450, but I am not sure if those are now resolved or not by driver fixes, etc.
I certainly do alot of encoding but often its using x264 which I believe is heavily CPU dependent and not GPU. But Vegas I believe does use GPU for rendering, but I believe the rendering is only if adding transitions and effects editing.
I plan to do some OSx86 (i.e Mac on the PC) so not sure which of these or another candidate would have better driver support for OSx86.
Your feedback would be much appreciated.
My current card is 8600 GT and not sure how this would compare in terms of performance to these proposed cards.
I have also seen suggested GTX460/470 for editing. But again I think this is for rendering needs. I refer to this article (http://www.cameralabs.com/PC_Hardware_reviews/Edit_HD_DSLR_video/Best_PC_software_for_editing_HD_DSLR_video.shtml)for good indication of how significant hardware is in the equation so I think a GT220 is enough if its comparable to 8800.
Then again upgrading to Win7 from XP, I guess I might benefit from upgrading from my 8600GT to the GTX460. Anyone here can supply Win7 WEI numbers for these cards?
Of course I would imagine the power savings from a GT220/HD5450 vs GTX460 would be significant. I think the HD5450 is like 7W idle and only 20W load. I would imagine the GTX460 at over 100W at idle.
I don't play any games, but am very much into movies, encoding, and video editing. I often use BD-Rebuilder, ProShow, and Vegas Video. I plan to eventually edit HD video from consumer camera, but will not do much special effects so not much rendering needed. Just cutting, editing, and then will probably use x264 to encode the edited HD file.
With that in mind what are some suggestions for video card for my system? Current system is GA-EP35-DS3R with Intel Q9650. Also should mention that I plan to upgrade in 2012 to Sandy Bridge-E chips with the planned Intel six-core chips. This will have the X79 chipset which will be PCI Express 3.0, so not sure how that might effect my card buying decisions today, that is, will a PCI Express 2.1 card work in PCI Express 3.0.
I have been looking at HD5450 and GT 220. Both have good power consumption. Both support DXVA 2.0, but there looks to be more grumbling from ATI users with a quick Google
Seems there were some issues with audio crackling, etc on the HD5450, but I am not sure if those are now resolved or not by driver fixes, etc.
I certainly do alot of encoding but often its using x264 which I believe is heavily CPU dependent and not GPU. But Vegas I believe does use GPU for rendering, but I believe the rendering is only if adding transitions and effects editing.
I plan to do some OSx86 (i.e Mac on the PC) so not sure which of these or another candidate would have better driver support for OSx86.
Your feedback would be much appreciated.
My current card is 8600 GT and not sure how this would compare in terms of performance to these proposed cards.
I have also seen suggested GTX460/470 for editing. But again I think this is for rendering needs. I refer to this article (http://www.cameralabs.com/PC_Hardware_reviews/Edit_HD_DSLR_video/Best_PC_software_for_editing_HD_DSLR_video.shtml)for good indication of how significant hardware is in the equation so I think a GT220 is enough if its comparable to 8800.
Then again upgrading to Win7 from XP, I guess I might benefit from upgrading from my 8600GT to the GTX460. Anyone here can supply Win7 WEI numbers for these cards?
Of course I would imagine the power savings from a GT220/HD5450 vs GTX460 would be significant. I think the HD5450 is like 7W idle and only 20W load. I would imagine the GTX460 at over 100W at idle.