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froman
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_ 		27. July 2005 @ 00:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi all, my first post here. Do I need a video card like an ATI or nvidia card? I bought the ATI X800XL card but haven't opened it yet. My PC doesn't have its own card. The PC is 3.2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, and 250GB hard drive. I use the Ulead Videostudio 8 software. The software has been slow at times, sometimes blacking out the screen when playing back the video footage in Videostudio. I'm not a gamer at all. Is the X800XL too much? Should I exchange it for a cheaper card? Thanks for any advice!!
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pfh
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_ 		27. July 2005 @ 01:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Is that an All-in-wonder card? If so, then using that to capture with as opposed to your present on-board solution should improve things for you quite a bit. The new video card will handle a lot of the processing now being done by your CPU thus freeing up some computer resources and Ulead should work better.
What is it you are trying to do exactly?
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froman
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_ 		27. July 2005 @ 21:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi pfh, thanks for the response. It's not an all-in-wonder card. I forgot to mention that it's a PCI-express card. So thinking about it, I guess I'm actually limited in my selection of cards. But glad to hear that it should help with video editing. I just wasn't sure if these video cards only helped with games since they focus all their marketing on speeding up games :-) I do your usual wedding videos, slideshows, etc. All for fun right now. Thanks again!
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pfh
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_ 		28. July 2005 @ 01:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hmm...since it's not an A-I-W card then it will help your video stuff in a limited way, mostly your computer graphic stuff- fancy menus in a dvd compilation for example. As far as out right video processing your CPU handles this. The real question is what is it you are using to transfer your vids to the computer? And what are your transfers, mpeg or avi? In any case, your computer specs are up to the task and more than likely the bottle-neck for you at this time will be the single hard drive. Best to have 2 separate drives so that the high amount of read/writes can occur across 2 drives instead of all being done on one. Also, that vid card will certainly not hurt your computer use in general anyways. You should see an improvement in most anything after installing it and disabling the on-board junk.
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froman
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_ 		28. July 2005 @ 22:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Interesting. I think that's exactly what I wanted to know. I use my firewire port and Ulead VisualStudio 8 to import in AVI format. I do use a separate HD for my video, so I should be good there. Then I guess next on my shopping list is more RAM!!! :-) Thanks again! I really do appreciate it.
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Minion
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_ 		31. July 2005 @ 13:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
For Video editing you can get away with useing a Cheapo 32mb Card as there is not very Much Needed to Display Video when editing so if you are Not a Gamer and don"t need such a powerfull Video Card then you can get away with useing a Much Cheaper Card...

Actually for the Price of the X800XL you could have Bought a Very Good High End digital Video Capture device Like an Canopus ADVC-110 or a "Canopus ACEDVio Editing Card" which would be of much more use to you in Video editing and Video Capture than the Video Card is....

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