Hello, good people of the forum.
It's almost impossible to find any reference on any tech site, review or forum that even suggests the idea that of video cards that are NOT used for gaming (HORROR!). Yes, it's true, I do not play games. I don't care who knows it! I do, however, spend a great deal of time and computing power on graphics, images and video; downloading, uploading, editing, encoding, transcoding, authoring, burning, etc. I built myself a new machine at the beginning of this past year but made a silly mistake and got (what is now) a half-a**ed video card: Geforce 6600GT. What with an E6400, GA-965P-DS3, 2 gigs of PC-800 RAM, 540 gigs of SATA-loving hard drive and a lot of motoring software, that poor 6600GT just can't keep up.
So, I've been looking at modernizing, with budget being a big concern. I think I've narrowed the race down to HIS RAdeon x1950 PRO and the EVGA Geforce 7900GS, both 256mb of DDR3 and both with 256 bit architectures. So, here it comes; that age-old question: do I choose ATI or nVidia? I've always had nVidia cards because ATI had a reputation for playing fast and loose around the gaming parlors but wasn't that swell at handling graphics, music or multimedia applications. That seems to have changed in the last few years, however, as the Radeon cards seem to have gotten noticed for often out-performing similar Geforce models (at something other than gaming, that is). So, keeping in mind that there will be no FPS in my future, which way do I go?
So, that's it. Please chime in with thoughts. All are welcome!!
Thanks.
It's almost impossible to find any reference on any tech site, review or forum that even suggests the idea that of video cards that are NOT used for gaming (HORROR!). Yes, it's true, I do not play games. I don't care who knows it! I do, however, spend a great deal of time and computing power on graphics, images and video; downloading, uploading, editing, encoding, transcoding, authoring, burning, etc. I built myself a new machine at the beginning of this past year but made a silly mistake and got (what is now) a half-a**ed video card: Geforce 6600GT. What with an E6400, GA-965P-DS3, 2 gigs of PC-800 RAM, 540 gigs of SATA-loving hard drive and a lot of motoring software, that poor 6600GT just can't keep up.
So, I've been looking at modernizing, with budget being a big concern. I think I've narrowed the race down to HIS RAdeon x1950 PRO and the EVGA Geforce 7900GS, both 256mb of DDR3 and both with 256 bit architectures. So, here it comes; that age-old question: do I choose ATI or nVidia? I've always had nVidia cards because ATI had a reputation for playing fast and loose around the gaming parlors but wasn't that swell at handling graphics, music or multimedia applications. That seems to have changed in the last few years, however, as the Radeon cards seem to have gotten noticed for often out-performing similar Geforce models (at something other than gaming, that is). So, keeping in mind that there will be no FPS in my future, which way do I go?
So, that's it. Please chime in with thoughts. All are welcome!!
Thanks.