How do you find a better video card
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This is my computer
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=uk&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c02881444#N418
which runs a :
NVIDIA GeForce 405 graphics card.
This is the specs of the card:
Interface: PCI Express x16
So how do I go about this? any ideas???
is this one better and will it work on high settings?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-GeForce-GT630-Nvidia-Graphics/dp/B00896KEXU/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1363535040&sr=1-1
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=uk&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c02881444#N418
which runs a :
NVIDIA GeForce 405 graphics card.
This is the specs of the card:
Interface: PCI Express x16
- HDMI resolution: 1920x1080
- DVI: 1600x1200x32bpp @ 60Hz
- VGA resolution: 1920x1440x32bpp @ 75Hz (via dongle)
- 1 GB onboard memory
So how do I go about this? any ideas???
is this one better and will it work on high settings?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-GeForce-GT630-Nvidia-Graphics/dp/B00896KEXU/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1363535040&sr=1-1
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(link is to the Jan-13 edition of the article, which I think is the latest at the moment)
I also do a lot of 3D rendering and I need it to do that.
Then consider whether your computer's power supply can cope with the demands of a powerful video board. That's in terms of the total wattage of the entire computer compared with what the power supply is rated at, and whether there's a spare internal power cable (some video boards need that).
You also need to think about whether the computer's ventilation system can cope with the heat output of a powerful board.
The last two factors are tricky and it's normally difficult to get reliable information but as a rule of thumb I guess it would probably be wise to avoid getting a new board that is vastly more powerful than the current board.
So what do you think of
CORSAIR 8GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233192
and GeForce GT 630
http://www.amazon.co.uk/KFA2-GeForce-GT630-DDR3-Graphics/dp/B0085JR5TW
Does it matter that the memory card also has only 1GB still? it would be going from a GeForce 405 to the GeForce GT 630.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nvidia-GTX550Ti-192-Bit-Ready-Graphics/dp/B004S5CCP4/ref=sr_1_2?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1363541533&sr=1-2
Or this one more expensive though
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-GeForce-560TI-DirectCUII-Graphics/dp/B004K8R8DA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363541716&sr=8-1
This limits your options and rules out the more powerful graphics cards. Best you can do is a AMD Radeon HD 7750 Low Profile. If that's more than you wanted to spend there's also the 6670 Low Profile.
The amount of graphics memory will control the board's maximum resolution (but there's no point in that being higher than the monitor can handle). I've read that some software can use graphics memory to hold 3D textures and meshes but I don't know how accurate that claim is.
There seems to be conflicting opinion regarding the relative importance of the graphics processor's power and the amount of graphics memory. Perhaps someone with more knowledge can comment about that.
^^^^ This.
Unless you are output high resolution to multiple screens then the other item that graphics use RAM for is holding 3d objects mainly for gaming.
What I would do is check the software that you are using for your 3D rendering and see if it has hardware acceleration for any specific graphics card. ATI/AMD and Nvidia (and Intel) all have 3D rendering support but its down to the software as to if its implemented.
Are you talking rendering using a 3d animation/visualization package? In which case the bulk of the actual rendering is still worked out by your cpu, the strength of you graphic card comes into play mainly in previews.
What 3d software are you using?
This thread is timely for me providing advice to my father. He is currently doing financial trading from home. Currently using a Full HD monitor and a second monitor of 1280x1024, probably looking to add another monitor of 1280x1024 or another Full HD monitor.
We've just bought a PC with an AMD Radeon 7770 graphics card with 1GB RAM.
Would this card be fine for two monitors of 1920 x 1080 and one of 1280 x 1024?
Additionally, he is using one monitor on HDMI, one on DVI, his card has a displayport remaining and the third monitor he wants to use (that we already had in the house) has only a VGA connection. I've been trying to find a displayport - VGA cable but only finding either mini-displayport to vga cables or displayport-VGA adaptor boxes. What is the best way to connect these two monitors? A long way could be display-port to DVI adapter then DVI-VGA adapter?
That isn't true. Maya etc DO hardware rendering.
As does Max but it depends on the engine being used for starters
Also, there's HA for pre vis and HA for final renders. Not everything is compatible with HA for final renders. There are some specific engines that do a decent job, though. But in my line of work it's not really worth the hassle.