Video Card Suggestions

bilco82 wrote on 3/25/2008, 6:29 PM

I have a NVIDIA GeForce 7500LE video card and it works fine but I'm looking to change to a card with dual DVI for my second monitor. I use my system mostly for Vegas Pro 8, and some Photoshop editing. I have had several cards suggested, Visiontek X1650PRO(ATI processor), PNY GeForce Verto 8600GT 512MB DDR2, and the BFG GeForce 8600GT OC Thermointelligence - 512MB DDR3, to name a few.
I am running an Intel Quad-Core processor Q6600 with Vista.
Any suggestions?

Comments

blink3times wrote on 3/25/2008, 8:02 PM

I have Vista 64, Q6600 with a ATI 1950 pro and everything seem to flow quite nicely. You may however want to look at some of the DX10 cards though... it seems that's the direction we're heading. Either way though Vegas doesn't require anything expensive for vid cards.

DJPadre wrote on 3/25/2008, 8:31 PM

go Nvidia DX10
8800GT is a good place to start
Thats what im looking at at this time

U can find these for about 250 AUD now

min 256bit @ 512mb

Now with vegas as u knwo it wotn use GPU, but if your using AE or MB2, then this will definately make a difference in performance

NickHope wrote on 3/26/2008, 9:20 AM

I've got 2 x Gigabyte 8600GT dual DVI cards with my Q6600 and they work great with Vegas. 2 x 17" on one and my Dell 24" on the other for my Vegas preview over DVI. Thinking of adding a 4th monitor now.

bruceo wrote on 3/26/2008, 10:16 AM

What slots do you have them in? Do you have two PCIX video slots?

rmack350 wrote on 3/26/2008, 11:11 AM

You probably mean PCIe. PCIX is a very specific thing that consumer motherboards don't usually have.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCIX#Confusion_with_PCI-Express

Rob

Gary R. Brown wrote on 3/27/2008, 9:39 AM

You might want to look at the Sli spec Motherboard and video card setup. They are working well for me. Vegas is very forgiving in the mediocre video card department so you can get a MB and two video cards for the cost of one high end Video card, and be able to run them as two cards with four distinct outputs OR in Sli mode for photshop etc. with twice the video processing and twice the available memory available on one monitor. To steal a line from an old commercial ... "It's two, two, two cards in one"!