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Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR

02/22/2008 10:33:26 AM · #1

Anyone use a Quattro Video Card in their PC How much faster are they?

RainMotorsports

Nikon D60

02/22/2008 10:39:51 AM · #2

Ive never heard of a "Quattro Video Card" but a quick google shows a video capture card?

If you mean an nVidia Quadro that is primarily used for professional purposes in the areas of CAD, Animation, Game Design. Just get the best nVidia GeForcie you can afford an 8800 GTX or something. Not sure what new 9 series are out but heard about the 9600GT coming out recently its a budget card though.

PhotoDave

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM II

02/22/2008 10:40:40 AM · #3

Depends what you are using it specificaly for. For the most part the good gaming cards will beat them in a lot of applications. I got my work to switch from the Quadros to the 8800GXT and its WAY better with 3dsmax, solidworks, vegas video...

-dave

Message edited by author 2008-02-22 10:41:16.

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM II

02/22/2008 12:53:22 PM · #4

Video Mainly.. Quadro is correct I mispelled it. thanks

Message edited by author 2008-02-22 12:53:54.

PhotoDave

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

02/22/2008 12:57:36 PM · #5

When you say Video mainly, do you mean Video editing or just a video card for your photo editing?

The Quadros were great in the past but bang for the buck they are way over priced considering how powerful the gaming cards have become and are becoming relics...

-dave

02/22/2008 12:58:08 PM · #6

I currently have the geforce 8800gts 640mb card and am not happy with the performance on video rendering ability. Everything else its great at. My specks are 2.4 quad core intel, 6 gigs ram 2 tb HDD and it still takes up to 6 hours to render 1 hour of video with adobe premeir cs3 HD video

Message edited by author 2008-02-22 13:15:48.

SamDoe1

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

02/22/2008 01:19:47 PM · #7

The video card has little to no effect on video rendering. The NVidia Quadro and the ATi FireGL are both aimed towards 3D modeling applications like CAD and solidworks not for 2D rendering like video would be. Getting one of these won't do anything for speeding up your PC. The bottleneck will usually occur either at your CPU or your hard drive. I'm assuming that you are running a 7200rpm drive so consider going to a 10000rpm drive (WD Raptors are good). The other option is just get the fastest and most powerful CPU on the market today (Intel Core2Extreme). That is where the major bottleneck in your system is so you just need a brute force method of the fastest CPU you can find/afford.

Edit to add: Also getting a CPU with a faster bus speed and RAM with a faster clock speed will help as well. The new Intel CPUs have a bus speed of 1333mhz and DDR2800 is the fastest (within reason for price) RAM out there. The faster you can throw data through the CPU, the faster it will render. This is why high speed drives, high speed RAM, and a fast bus speed is important. Once you get the fastest of these, then the CPU speed is the limiter.

Message edited by author 2008-02-22 13:24:32.

RainMotorsports

Nikon D60

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR

02/22/2008 01:31:33 PM · #8

I just want to clarify that SamDoe meant to say DDR2-800 so dont get confused. Without a seperator someone with DDR1 that doesnt know any better might go searching for ddr2800 and that would turn up some empty results.

Eitherway when your editing and rendering High definition video its going to take a awhile. I know eight seconds of uncompressed 720p (1280x720) is like 771 MB. You have to imagine that the computer is decompressing the source and then recompressing it into the codec used for the final output file and this is alot of information it is handling.

Handling 1080P the computer is moving 158 mb per second of video.

Message edited by author 2008-02-22 13:34:06.

PhotoDave

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM II

02/22/2008 01:48:28 PM · #9

Like mentioned above, as for "rendering" the final video the video card has little or no effect on that, for faster performance you need faster CPU's, RAM, SCSI drives... if you are really serious about video editing and publishing check out //www.boxxtech.com they have some killer video and 3d and render nodes and their service is awesome to say the least.

-dave

02/23/2008 07:31:12 PM · #10

Thanks all for the advice I do run scsi 10000 rpm drive array raid 5 on a asus p5wd board running ddr2 -800 and 6 gigs split into two duel channel bands for increase performance on the bus. I guess then I need to up it to Xeons next. Well there goes the tax refund this year. Thanks again

SamDoe1