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1. Re: Get a better graphics card? Or machine soon...?
cc_merchant Jun 15, 2014 12:30 PM (in response to JayNewWeb)See Tweakers Page and the articles there.
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2. Re: Get a better graphics card? Or machine soon...?
JayNewWeb Jun 15, 2014 12:36 PM (in response to cc_merchant)I was really afraid that was going to happen. I honestly was even seriously thinking of adding something like "Please don't just give me a link to a complex, encyclopedic wealth of information on the subject." :-)
I'm aware Harm has some incredibly extensive stuff on there. And in the past I've spent countless hours combing through it a number of years ago. Right now, I'm way too buried with running my business. I'm not a video professional but rather do this for my own small company's videos for raising capital and doing marketing.
Can I "please" request some relatively simple advice?
Thanks!
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3. Re: Get a better graphics card? Or machine soon...?
cc_merchant Jun 15, 2014 2:37 PM (in response to JayNewWeb)Get a new system, new CPU, new motherboard, new RAM, extra disks and then last - funds permitting - a new video card.
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4. Re: Get a better graphics card? Or machine soon...?
JayNewWeb Jun 15, 2014 4:01 PM (in response to cc_merchant)Well, until I can afford the time and money for a whole new system, I'm wondering what the benefits are likely to be in changing from my current GeForce GTX 470:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130550
to a Quadro 2000:
https://h10057.www1.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provisioner/99/WS094AA.htm and http://www.amazon.com/WS094AA-Quadro-2000-Graphics-Card/dp/B0046HITTC
(By the way, I spoke to HP tech support and the prior tech who told me it's triple-channel memory was wrong, so now I'm filling the fourth memory slot to make it 16 GB RAM.)
Thanks!
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5. Re: Get a better graphics card? Or machine soon...?
JSS1138 Jun 15, 2014 4:18 PM (in response to JayNewWeb)[Moved to Hardware forum.]
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6. Re: Get a better graphics card? Or machine soon...?
JSS1138 Jun 15, 2014 4:19 PM (in response to JayNewWeb)Don't get the card. Save your money until you can get a new system. A new CPU will make a far larger improvement over a new graphics card.
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7. Re: Get a better graphics card? Or machine soon...?
RjL190365 Jun 15, 2014 5:35 PM (in response to JayNewWeb)Unless you are going to output to an extremely expensive 10-bit monitor, the Quadro 2000 is a colossal waste of money at this point: It is, for all practical purposes, an underclocked GeForce GTS 450 (which is already significantly slower than your current GTX 470 because the Quadro 2000 has only 192 CUDA cores and a memory throughput of only 41 GB/s versus the GTX 470's 448 CUDA cores and 134 GB/s memory throughput). Even the newer Quadro K2000 is slower than your current GTX 470 because the K2000's memory throughput is only 64 GB/s.
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8. Re: Get a better graphics card? Or machine soon...?
JayNewWeb Jun 15, 2014 5:44 PM (in response to JSS1138)Thanks very much. (I'm not even so sure now that the Quadro 2000 is a "better" card than the GTX 470 anyway, the more I look at them. EDIT: The above post confirms that.)
Your comment answers my other pressing question, too. It seems you're pretty sure that a new system is probably going to offer substantial speed improvements when editing and exporting video.
Out of curiosity, I just put some HP EliteDesk 800 quad machines into the office, with i7 processors and SSDs and I put in a GeForce GT 630. Is that going to be faster than my 5-year old AV workstation, do you guess? (I found it's about five years old, not seven.)
More importantly, I'd be very grateful if you would please recommend a "good" average, general configuration to consider for a new machine, please.
Thanks again!
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9. Re: Get a better graphics card? Or machine soon...?
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10. Re: Get a better graphics card? Or machine soon...?
RjL190365 Jun 16, 2014 3:11 AM (in response to JayNewWeb)JayNewWeb wrote:
Out of curiosity, I just put some HP EliteDesk 800 quad machines into the office, with i7 processors and SSDs and I put in a GeForce GT 630. Is that going to be faster than my 5-year old AV workstation, do you guess? (I found it's about five years old, not seven.)
Yes and no. You see, the office PCs have subjectively faster CPUs than your current AV workstation. Unfortunately, the office PCs may have only a truly single disk (that means an SSD with no physical HDD to supplement the SSD). What's more, the GT 630 that you put in was a waste of money, given that most retail versions of the GT 630 in existence are not true Kepler parts to begin with, but are instead rehashed old lower-end Fermi parts (in this case, the retail GT 630 is nothing more than a GT 440 with only 96 CUDA cores and DDR3 memory with a lousy 28 GB/s memory throughput instead of the faster and more desirable GDDR5 memory). As such, the GT 630 would be even slower than even the Quadro 2000, let alone the GTX 470.



