Need some recommendations

[Killajaz]

Im after a card with the best image quality. It will go into a PC which will be used as an entertainment center but also for a lot of Picture and Video processing. It would be nice if it could play recent games at medium settings.

But the priority is still for the 'home picture&video editing enthusiast' who would aspires to create pro or semi-pro outputs.

Most gratefull for any info!

 

[SteveOBHave]

Im after a card with the best image quality. It will go into a PC which will be used as an entertainment center but also for a lot of Picture and Video processing. It would be nice if it could play recent games at medium settings.

But the priority is still for the 'home picture&video editing enthusiast' who would aspires to create pro or semi-pro outputs.

Most gratefull for any info!

I may be way off target here, but for what you are after you can pretty much aim at any of the mid range cards from either ATI or NVidia. I'm pretty sure the likes of the 7600 GS (about £100 from OcUK) and the x1600 Pro series (again about £100 from OcUK) would do for what you are talking about. When it comes down to it, video processing and the such (encoding and editing) are as much about the CPU (maybe more) than about the video card.

From a very surface level of experience with video editing, assuming you are using something like Adobe Premiere, you are better off with a nice big grunty CPU and stacks of RAM.

 

[wellibob]

big grunty CPU and stacks of RAM

Agreed.

 

[Darkwave]

What's your budget and what's the rest of your specifications? Depending on those two the X1800XT 256MB is amazingly cheap at the moment, will play current games maxed, and gives you AVIVO with super-fast video encoding/transcoding.