Spiffing Graphics card

[Kolya]

Hello everyone, hope you're having sun where you are unlike us here in the UK!!

Anyway, I have just bought a motherboard, RAM and processor after some great help from you all, but have come up with the need for some more info just for a good graphics card to go with what i do and have.

The motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD5 rev 2.0- 1366 Socket - X58 - ATX Chipset

The processor is an Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz Socket 1366, and the RAM is Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3/1333Mhz.

I had some great help from Bruce hayward here at the forum who suggested a Sapphire Radeon HD 6450 1 gb GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 fanless video card with DVI and HDMI out, but want to enquire one last time before i buy as I know there are two types, those with ATI chips and those with Nvidia.

I have up to £100 to buy and am using it with the whole use of music production, so not sure why every card I find is geared towards gaming?!

It seems to me that any card made for gaming will not worry about fan noise, where as one that is made for music will take this into consideration. I record sometimes in close proximity to the PC so I would like to have this issue recognised.

Again, many thanks for any help from you all.

Kolya

[albee1952]

It really doesn't take much graphics horsepower for PT. I use a $37 MSI GeForce 7300 LE 256MB card on my rig. Check the compatibility thread at the top of this page as Avid are recommending nVidia cards these days(although plenty of users are having success with ATI). BTW, since Nashville has been close to 100 degrees the last few days, we'll gladly share some sunshine with you

[Kolya]

Thanks albee, I decided to go a little higher and buy an ASUS 5670 ATI, it'll do the job well and is quiet. Enjoy the sun, we have HEAVY rain today