System Upgrades

rdittmer wrote on 12/26/2003, 11:02 AM

I have a P4/2.53 with 512 RAM, and Intel Integrated graphics card (64 shared). Santa brought an ATI Xtasy 9200 SE 128MB AGP graphics card and 256MB of Kingston RAM. I know the RAM should benefit my video editing, but I am not a "gamer" and was wondering if the graphics card would be a benefit for video editing (enough of a benefit not to return it and get something else - and if so, what would be a benefit?).

Comments

MUTTLEY wrote on 12/26/2003, 11:24 AM

In so far as I know, anything more than a " good " video card is overkill when it comes to editing. How much hard drive space do you have ? Seems I can never have enough. Even with the new 256MB's or memory you might still could use more. Not being the video/computer guru those would be my first two recomendations. Merry Christmas !

- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com

rdittmer wrote on 12/26/2003, 6:36 PM

I am maxed out at 160GB (two hard drives). Your right about getting more memory. Thanks for the reply and Merry Christmas to you also.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 12/27/2003, 5:57 AM

The ATI will allow you to get your monitor at higher res/refreah rates then the built in Intel "card." Also, since the ATI supports OpenGL, if you buy any OpenGL accelerated program, it will perform very nicely (such as Boris Red GL)