"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "Liam" wrote...
>> Wow, Quadros tend to start at $400. That's half my
>> budget. It amazes me how different the video tech can be that
>> you can spend $500 on a video card that's supposed to be
>> amazing for CAD and rendering, but can't run games.
>> Crazy. Well, again, gaming isn't a big deal for this machine,
>> but $400+ is kinda steep.
>> Any recommendations for more around the $15 to $250
>> range?
>
> Perhaps I'm just simple, but I haven't bought a video
> card for my last 5 generations of computers. I just buy
> a motherboard with internal video and I've never seen
> any problem doing video NLE (which must be at least
> as demanding as animation.)
Exactly. I've been editing video and audio on machines with only on-board
video cards for years.
The overwhelming majority of the fancy processing on plug-in video cards
primarily relates to 3D rendering, which for most people means playing
games.
> IMHO, fancy video cards are not necessary for most
> applications. Gaming seems to be the major application,
> and I'm not a gamer.
There are two exceptions that to mind:
Playing over-the-air HDTV video can require special processing that has
not
shown up in on-board video cards, at least until very lately.
Playing Blu-Ray discs has also required special processing that has not
shown up in on-board video cards, at least until very lately.
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