In need of opinion about a new comp setup

[NicksFXHouse]

If you are going with quad SLI get the Dell 30 inch monitor. The Dell and Apple 30 inchers are the only ones that can take full advantage of the high resolutions that the quad setup is capable of (2560 X 1600).

thank you for ringing into this... I know you have a 7950 card and I forgot about the 'Hi-res" issue. The 7950 cards need a monitor that will support that resolution or the performance gains will not be seen.

that is another reason allot of people bad mouthed the card... no only were they running the card on a motherboard that did not 'fully' support it, they were clueless about the min resolution spec and were running the cards on a typical 1280x1024 setup.

[cheesegrater]

thank you for ringing into this... I know you have a 7950 card and I forgot about the 'Hi-res" issue. The 7950 cards need a monitor that will support that resolution or the performance gains will not be seen.

that is another reason allot of people bad mouthed the card... no only were they running the card on a motherboard that did not 'fully' support it, they were clueless about the min resolution spec and were running the cards on a typical 1280x1024 setup.

What do you mean? The card won't work at all in low resolutions?

[NicksFXHouse]

What do you mean? The card won't work at all in low resolutions?

it works.. but the performance of the card is actually retarded at lower res


It was designed and optimized to run at resolultions above 2000X at which the card is actually a beast

[ctjoyce]

If you want a rig that will be suited for video editing, then an Intel based system would serve you better (NOTE: That is based on todays hardware)

C'mon this you can atleast give in on and say that Intel has always been the best for media encodeing. That was always their selling point.

Cheers
Cameron

[PisTon]

What do you mean? The card won't work at all in low resolutions?

It's hugely inefficient at low resolutions, and you can actually get lower performance than one card

But at 1920x1600, the card is amazing, as each card is actually drawing more than 20 pixels.

[cheesegrater]

What if you turn up the Anti-Aliasing and Filtering to the max and max out all the settings in FSX on 1024x768 or 1280x1024? Still won't challenge the card because the resolution is too low?

[ctjoyce]

Basically.

AA and AF really don't challenge the card the same way that resolution will.

Cheers
Cameron

[NicksFXHouse]

C'mon this you can atleast give in on and say that Intel has always been the best for media encodeing. That was always their selling point.

Cheers
Cameron

I did say that... up till now and with available hardware Intel would be a better platform for video editing... I did not say anything of the contrary. All I pointed out is next year things may change. That does not mean I am saying Intel is bad for encoding. Especially since Intel paid all the larger software manufactures who deal with editing to make sure their code was optimized over AMD.

AMD does not do a bad job with editing. It just takes a tad longer.