Zanzaben wrote:Well first off you really can't get a much better graphics card because your motherboard doesn't have any PCIe 3.0 slots, so that means you couldn't get a GTX card and all of the GT cards aren't that big of an upgrade. Besides that what Pwolf said about storage is also very important especially when it comes to the number of disks that you have. This all has to do with Adobe products but I assume that other video editing works in a similar way, if it doesn't than someone please correct me. It is super important that you have multiple drives in your computer so that you will never be reading and writing data to the same place at the same time. You want at least 3 disks so if you currently have you entire computer stored on your C: drive then definitely go out and by 2 more drives so that you can have a D: and E: instead of more ram. I will refer to this thread a disk set up and if you don't use adobe then I would say look on your software's forums for a similar thread, http://forums.adobe.com/thread/662972? If however you already have a decent disk setup then by all means buy more ram because, at least in my mind, you can never have to much ram.




JudgeHolden wrote:PCI 3 cards are backwards compatible with PCI 2 ???
Zanzaben wrote:Well first off you really can't get a much better graphics card because your motherboard doesn't have any PCIe 3.0 slots, so that means you couldn't get a GTX card and all of the GT cards aren't that big of an upgrade. Besides that what Pwolf said about storage is also very important especially when it comes to the number of disks that you have. This all has to do with Adobe products but I assume that other video editing works in a similar way, if it doesn't than someone please correct me. It is super important that you have multiple drives in your computer so that you will never be reading and writing data to the same place at the same time. You want at least 3 disks so if you currently have you entire computer stored on your C: drive then definitely go out and by 2 more drives so that you can have a D: and E: instead of more ram. I will refer to this thread a disk set up and if you don't use adobe then I would say look on your software's forums for a similar thread, http://forums.adobe.com/thread/662972? If however you already have a decent disk setup then by all means buy more ram because, at least in my mind, you can never have to much ram.
JudgeHolden wrote:Zanzaben wrote:Well first off you really can't get a much better graphics card because your motherboard doesn't have any PCIe 3.0 slots, so that means you couldn't get a GTX card and all of the GT cards aren't that big of an upgrade. Besides that what Pwolf said about storage is also very important especially when it comes to the number of disks that you have. This all has to do with Adobe products but I assume that other video editing works in a similar way, if it doesn't than someone please correct me. It is super important that you have multiple drives in your computer so that you will never be reading and writing data to the same place at the same time. You want at least 3 disks so if you currently have you entire computer stored on your C: drive then definitely go out and by 2 more drives so that you can have a D: and E: instead of more ram. I will refer to this thread a disk set up and if you don't use adobe then I would say look on your software's forums for a similar thread, http://forums.adobe.com/thread/662972? If however you already have a decent disk setup then by all means buy more ram because, at least in my mind, you can never have to much ram.
PCI 3 cards are backwards compatible with PCI 2 ???
Again, I really doubt that the disk transfer rate is a problem that needs resolving. The background access of the OS isn't that much.?.so unless the OP is trying to do some i/o intensive task at the same time as previewing, this should be a non-issue.Zanzaben wrote:Since you currently have everything stored on one HDD I am almost certain that your disk setup is your biggest bottle neck and adding more ram or a new graphics card wouldn't seem faster since that would let adobe work with the footage really fast but it won't be able to load it into and out of it nearly as fast as your ram is letting you.
Throughput on USB 2 is around 45 MBps. Putting the media on it is sure to have much more of a negative impact than just leaving it on the internal HDD.Even using your external drive over a USB 2.0 connection would be better than just using one drive. As Bashar pointed out SSD's are awesome and indeed they are, however one word of warning about that is that it is important that you just put your OS and the adobe products on it and don't put any of the media, or previews, or anything else video related on it because video editing does so many more reads and writes to a disk then most other things that SSD's will often just die from being way overworked.
Regarding the video card it seems to me that you really want the additional out-puts and that will be by far the biggest factor in deciding that you want a new video card, because it will have a marginal difference on that actual video editing of your system so it depends on how much you want to be able to use DVI cables. Also keep in mind the price of the monitors that you would buy to use your new DVI connections, unless of course you have some monitors sitting around that you currently can't use in which case I would really want a new graphics card so that I could use them. I would look through the entire nivida GTX line to see which graphics card has the ports you want and any of those will be better than what you have now.
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