Two video cards

cajuntexan00

cajuntexan00

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I'm starting to buy components to build a new PC. How does having 2 video cards work? What are the advantages of doing that? Do you recommend it?

i do use my PC for HD video editing so I'm looking for some power in this area.

Thanks
 
Dual gfx either ran by sli or crossfire, when putting 2 together, generally people wnat to get a boost in gaming performance, it does help, it consumes quite a bit of energy than one gfx however, i wouldn't recommend it unless your a big gamer, and have to have 60+ FPS running on every single game you play lol, For video editing, its mainly cpu intensive, but the programs are now getting better from using with gfx cards, so for just video editing, i would just get a middle of the line graphics card...

What programs do you use?
 
I use Corel Video Studio Pro X2 to edit AVCHD from my Canon Camcorder. It doesn't work very well and the rendering times are awful. I have a 3 1/2 year old pentium D and I don't think the software utilizes the dual core ability of the processor. My video card is a ATI Radeon HD 4650 with 1 GB of memory.

I think editing video is going to be tough until we get good software that can edit video using 4 processing cores at once. Just wondering if having 2 video cards would help.
 
I think its the CPU that's not doing you good. your Pentium D would be the problem. Download CPUZ, find the MoBo model and type it in here. We can then tell you whether your MoBo is upgradeable or not, and give you some suggestions.
 
I used to have a pentium D 950 and it wasn't very powerful. Clocked at 3.4Ghz but it still wasn't good.

Don't think that having two graphics cards doubles FPS or productivity. It will give you and increase but not twice that of a single card.

Imo it would be better to get a single mid to high end card along with a good processor to handle video editing.
 
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