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Which Card video editing 3 monitors

Photoscubaman

Photoscubaman

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HI There First post so be gentle.

I have a 3 monitor set up on ati 5970, alien area51 alx.

Have bought premier pro cs5, so need cuda for hardware rendering.

question is do i go for a twin sli set up 580 3gb version, to make 6gb vid ram.

or a single gtx590 setup, i beleive they have 3 monitor setup.

have 1200 wat power supply, i7 960 12gb 1600ram running at 3.8ghz at moment
 
If you need lots of VRAM, then I would probably go with the the 3GB version of the 580 and SLI them (so you can drive your 3 monitors in Nvidia Surround and get much better framerates in games), AFAIK premier doesn't make use of SLI for the hardware rendering, but perhaps things have changed recently.

Please bear in mind that when you SLI - you don't just add the VRAM amount of the two cards together, the data is duplicated. So even with two cards, with 3GB of VRAM each - you still only have 3GB of VRAM to play with.

As with the GTX 590 - I believe this will be 1.5GB per core (3GB total) - so the maximum VRAM available there will be 1.5GB.
 
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I dont really know if i need the video ram.

i just know that i cant use a single 580 as i need 3 monitors.

think i might go for 590 as i can always put another one in later if needed.
 
really strugling to find stock for the Palit GTX 580 3GB DDR.

have sold one of my 5970's to pay for this, just need to be able to get my hands on the 580 or 590 bedfore i can pull the other one out to sell.

I do game a little, just use my buisness to justify some of the toys
 
LukasBB said:
why do you want a gaming card for video editing? get yourself a quadro card
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You make a good point - go for the card that is designed for the job.

And also - the GTX 580, 480 (and most other decent Nvidia cards) are not on the CS5 supported list.


However, if you are willing to do a touch of hacking - it all gets sorted out and you can use your dirty, dirty gaming card for GPGPU tasks in Premier Pro.

As you can see here, once hacked both the GTX 480 and 580 work fine in CS5.
 
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