Which Video Card?

ghines

Newbie Location: Kariong, NSW, Australia Joined: Sep 19, 2014 18:18 Messages: 30 Offline

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Sep 19, 2014 18:37

Hi all,

Just installed PD12 as I'm going to be doing so video editing using input from a GoPro and my digital camera. Will be rendering 1920x1024 HD probably in MP4.

My present system is a little old but I think an upgrade to the video card should help with the rendering speed. Here's what I have at present.

i7-2600
W7 x64
8GB low latency RAM
SSD for the OS
"Standard" HDD for everything else
P8H77-M PRO M/B with integrated Intel HD video
HD 6450 Video Card

I have two 24" LED Monitors, one connected to the 6450 and one to the integrated video. Both via HDMI.

My thinking was to remove the 6450 and replace it with something else and connect both monitors to the new video card while disabling the integrated video.

As money is tight my thoughts on video cards are as follows:-

1. Sapphire Radeon R7 240 with Boost and DDR5
2. Nvidia GTX 650
3. Radeon HD 7770
4. R7 260x

Any other recommendations or comments appreciated.

Edit1: BTW this PC is not used for gaming at all.
Edit2: I'll just throw another card into the mix. The ASUS R7 260x....

TIA

Greg

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PowerDirector - Ultimate 12.0.3403.0, Win7 64-bit, Intel Core i7-2600 processor (3.4 GHz) 8M Cache, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 256MB Vertex 3 SSD, 500GB 7200 RPM SATA HDD 6.0 Gb/s, nVidia GeForce GT 750 Ti ( 344.48 ) 2GB GDDR5

jcardana

Senior Contributor Location: USA-NM Joined: Aug 04, 2014 10:11 Messages: 650 Offline

Sep 19, 2014 20:28

I have no direct experience with SSDs but another gent on this forum suggests using it for video editing, not the OS. Hopefully he can comment further. If you would like more on how to use your SSD, PM me and I can give examples. I have a separate HHD just for file storage. Kinda like "My Documents".

I'm running The AMD FX-8320 8 Core with a GeForce GTX 750 Ti.

In most cases, when I'm working on sermons, I can render a preview in Realtime using Full HD Preview Resolution with minimal hangups. When I get more then three tracks of video combined, I have to lower it to High or Normal and I still get some hangups during multi-video transitions and effects.

I'm also running a Three Monitor rig as the GeForce has a VGA, HDMI and DVI. It's really nice to have the extra workspace when I undock the preview window.

Without knowing how each card compares to your current card and each other, I'm reluctant to express an opinion. Especially when it "seems" like your rig is a bit behind mine. (My first new comp in 10 years)

I hope you found this helpful,

Joe CyberPowerPC | Win7HP-64 | AMD FX-8320 3.5 Ghz | 8GB Mem | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB | WEI 5.9

My Video Editing Computer | My DirectX Diagnostics

PowerDirector 15.0.2820.0 | PhotoDirector 7.0.7504.0 | AudioDirector 6.0.5902.0 | ColorDirector 4.0.4627.0 | Power2Go 9.0.2602.0

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fkaMikeB

Senior Member Location: Ohio, USA Joined: Aug 09, 2014 23:22 Messages: 217 Offline

Sep 19, 2014 21:08

Recommendations from the PowerDirector specs page: click here >>> system requirements

NVIDIA:
GeForce 8500GT/9800GT and above
GeForce GT/GTS/GTX 200/400/500/600 Series
PLEASE NOTE: For users of NVIDIA cards who have updated to graphics driver 340.43 or later, the video hardware acceleration feature in PowerDirector is no longer available. To re-enable hardware acceleration, please download and install an earlier driver.

AMD / ATI :
AMD APU Family with AMD Radeon™ HD Graphics: A-Series, E2-Series, C-Series, E-Series, G-Series
AMD Radeon™ HD Graphics: HD 7000 Series, HD 6000 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD Graphics: 5900 Series, 5800 Series, 5700 Series, 5600 Series, 5500 Series, 5400 Series
ATI FirePro™ Graphics
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD: 5800 Series, 5700 Series, 5600 Series, 5400 Series
ATI Mobility FirePro™: M7820, M5800

The card I have (see below) is doing a good job so far.

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Mike B.
|>>PowerSpecG311 PC(2014)<<||>>Windows®7Pro 64-bit OS<<|
|MB:AsRock FM2A88X Extreme6+|CPU:AMD A10-7850KQuad 3.7GHz|RAM:8GB DDR3|GPU:MSI Radeon™R7 250 1GD5OC|
|HDD:Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB|HDD:WD Red 2TBx2|RAID:SansDigital TR5M+B 2TBx3|BD-R:LG BE14NU40 Ext|
|Camera:Canon Ultura miniDV|WebCam:Logitech C910|ADVC110 Analog/Digital Converter|
|PowerDirector12Ultra.2930|PhotoDirector5Ultra.5424|AudioDirector4Ultra.3522|Cyberlink MediaSuite10 OEM|

jcardana

Senior Contributor Location: USA-NM Joined: Aug 04, 2014 10:11 Messages: 650 Offline

Sep 20, 2014 00:44

Quote: PLEASE NOTE: For users of NVIDIA cards who have updated to graphics driver 340.43 or later, the video hardware acceleration feature in PowerDirector is no longer available. To re-enable hardware acceleration, please download and install an earlier driver.

What kind of crap is that? Down grade our drivers so Cyberlink doesn't have to come out with a quick patch? The title of the page specifies PD13...

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stevek

Senior Contributor Location: Houston, Texas USA Joined: Jan 25, 2011 12:18 Messages: 4663 Offline

Sep 20, 2014 08:38

Date and location (link) of that quote please.

Never mind; I found it. It may be that nVidia screwed up and will release a fix soon --- or there may be a more basic issue.

Note: That warning also is listed in the PD 12 specs page.

Perhaps there is something here that will explain it more. It seems that a lot of functionality has been dropped with the newest drivers, http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/344.11/344.11-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-notes.pdf

Warning: Long and involved document.

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BillyR

Senior Member Location: Southeast US Joined: Jun 19, 2013 14:33 Messages: 156 Offline

Sep 20, 2014 09:08

I'm not familiar with the Graphics cards you mentioned, but I have an NVidia GTX 660 on my main machine, and it is more than sufficient.It looks like your PC is well up to the task.

My main PC (not the one whose specs are listed below) is an i7 950 3.07 GHz with an SSD for the OS, and it works fine. Make sure you do all the editing, producing, etc. on the SSD and then export final results to your HDD to avoid filling up the SSD. Dell Precision 7510 Laptop
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit | Intel(R) XEON(R) CPU E3-1505M v5 @2.80 GHz
RAM: 32 GB
Windows Experience Index 7.5

ghines

Newbie Location: Kariong, NSW, Australia Joined: Sep 19, 2014 18:18 Messages: 30 Offline

Sep 20, 2014 18:18

Thanks @BillyR. I'm leaning towards the R7 260x for value for money and I'm getting away from the Nvidia driver issues too.

Greg PowerDirector - Ultimate 12.0.3403.0, Win7 64-bit, Intel Core i7-2600 processor (3.4 GHz) 8M Cache, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 256MB Vertex 3 SSD, 500GB 7200 RPM SATA HDD 6.0 Gb/s, nVidia GeForce GT 750 Ti ( 344.48 ) 2GB GDDR5