Vegetano1 Wrote:

feinicks Wrote:

Vegetano1 Wrote:i am saving for a geforce 280 its prob the best graphics card there is now,. but i read the 8800gts is still very good,. i have never bought a ATI graphics card,.

GeForce 280 can be considered as the best card for gaming... but for encoding, rendering etc, even the Quadro FX series is excellent...

if you got the $$$'s!! Quadro FX would be great!

whot part does a graphics card do when rendering/encoding,. i thought you needed a good cpu for that,.!>?

a simple example would be Photoshop CS4 which uses GPU rather than CPU to add filters...

essentially, a GPU is a lot more capable of high calculations that are required in encoding/rendering..