feinicks Wrote:

Vegetano1 Wrote:

feinicks Wrote:

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..

you mean the open-gl feature in PS CS4!>?

but not many programs use gpu>!? maybe 3d programs and such,. but for encoding cpu is used,..>?

also i thought the quad core was made to prevent overheating,. so i was told,. but seems quad core cpu's reach hight temperature's also.

yeah.. not as of now.. but GPUs were to blame for that. It was not as simple to switch between GPU and CPU for a program. It would be either Mostly GPU dependent (like games) for major processing or would stick to CPU..

But with CUDA it now way simpler... expect many heavy duty programs to follow suit.