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Time for a new computer, what should I be looking for?

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divemaster127:
Tomshardware.com right now is stating the best video card for the money is the PCI 7900GS, I purchased mined for $140.00 from newegg.com when I build my 6600 intel dual core, its a fast compter not much money, the 6600 cpu I picked up oem off of pricewatch for $240.00
dm

USSEnterprise:
I agree. IMO, the 7900GS is the best bang for your buck. I think I got mine for $110 at Buy.com and I haven't had a single problem with graphics since.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on February 13, 2007, 10:00:39 pm ---
--- Quote from: USSEnterprise on February 13, 2007, 09:54:23 pm ---I use Pinnacle 10.5xx with 1GB of RAM and it runs extremely smooth. Hell, my father runs it on 512 and a 2.6 Celeron and its still usable.

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Yes, you can use it. But lets imagine he might want to do a other things on his computer at the same time.


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Even with the current stability of vista/xp you should never multitask when you are rendering/editing video.  You open wmp, one of the 13 other things running in the background doesn't like it, and boom, hours of work down the drain.

divemaster127:
hes dead on with that one, if you rendering/editing video do not try other tasks at all these eat up the power
dm

Samstag:
I render/edit video while doing 10 other things on a single core on a daily basis.  I've never once lost or mangled a video.

Sure, everything will slow down.  There's only so much CPU available.  But unless you're recording incoming video using software encoding, there's no harm in it at all.

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