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Hi all,
I currently have a Asus GT 710 geforce 2GB DDR3 graphics card. It has a DVI, DSUB and HDMI connector. I have two monitors connected to it using HDMI and DVI interfaces. Although DVI isn't a must have because both monitors have HDMI. Had this card for a couple of years. I've started doing video editing and finding it doesn't really cut the mustard. On occasion I have found it struggles with 60fps recording. I dont often do this but when I do I just push it down to 30fps. 60fps would be better if poss.

I don't play any games.
My budget would be £150. Something which doesn't make too much fan noise too. Any suggestions/recommendations please?
 
With £150 I have seen a few used GTX 970's about the internet going, that would do it just fine. Also still has DVI and HDMI on it also.

Maybe something AMD equivalent like a r9 280x or r9 290. But if you browse around used you could get a good deal on one of them despite the current GPU market.
 
You could get a 1050ti, or potentially wait a little longer and snag a 1650 when prices drop a bit. At a slightly higher price (200-400) you could get a 1070, a 1660 or 2060 also for higher performance.
 
Another option since you aren't gaming is to look at used NVIDIA quadro cards.

Quadro M2000 or M4000 (broadly equivalent to Geforce 950/970) or Quadro P620 / P1000 / P2000 (Equivalent to Geforce 1050 / 1050Ti / 1060)

All of those are normally available for between £100 and £200

Any of those would have considerably better performance than your GT710, and all support NVEnc which will assist with Video encoding.

I've personally used an M2000 and a P620, and both are absolutely silent even when running flat out.
 
However, if you want to do more video editing, look more at NVIDIA's Quadro cards, as they are more targeted towards workloads rather than gaming. Gaming cards will still do video editing quite nicely, but if you see a cheap Quadro, that would be your best bet.
 
Could snag a 1650 for that with a bit of hunting, probably the best brand new option.

Otherwise 970 from a used market as above.
 
Does your psu support a much more powerful card and is there room for a full size card, if the answer is no to both then a 1030 GDDR5 (avoid the DDR version) will be a reasonable upgrade and can be found for less than £100, although I don't know if it will be as powerful as you want?
 
Does your psu support a much more powerful card and is there room for a full size card, if the answer is no to both then a 1030 GDDR5 (avoid the DDR version) will be a reasonable upgrade and can be found for less than £100, although I don't know if it will be as powerful as you want?
Since you're using a gt 710 this could be important, have you checked? It might even be low profile?

You can get 100% passive GT 1030s and most graphics card now will turn fans off under low load (which usually includes desktop stuff, though depends how demanding it is).

The GT 1030 might be missing what you need though:
https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new
 
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