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roberob23

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Need a non gamer video card. I do a good amount of HD video editing and playback. Here's my current setup...

MSI 970A-G46 mobo…
AMD FX-6350 3.9ghz six-core processor...
8gb G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1333 memory...
WD Blue 1tb sata-6 64mb cache...
Logisys 575w psu.

My old ATI radeon card is shot and I'd like something that will put me around the 5-6 mark on Win7 graphics subscore. Needs at least 1DVI and 1VGA. Would like to keep it under 100 if possible but will go up to 125 if necessary. Please let me know what you recommend and why. Thank you in advance.
 
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wow... 5-6? a 5-6 year old gpu will do that.

mmm... something that will pull a 5 or 6 on the windows experience score... since you're doing video editting i'm tempted to suggest nvidia, of course anyone doing serious video encoding doesn't use cuda so i won't go that rout.

probably your best bet in that price range is a HD 7750 1gb gddr5 and if you want to spend a little more the 650ti should be a nice jump in performance.

because of price fluctuations in the low end market there are a lot of great deals, so here is a list of the low end gpus based on performance. if you can find these for under your price range you'll be able to make an informed choice. none of these needs 2gb of memory, and make certain they have...
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wow... 5-6? a 5-6 year old gpu will do that.

mmm... something that will pull a 5 or 6 on the windows experience score... since you're doing video editting i'm tempted to suggest nvidia, of course anyone doing serious video encoding doesn't use cuda so i won't go that rout.

probably your best bet in that price range is a HD 7750 1gb gddr5 and if you want to spend a little more the 650ti should be a nice jump in performance.

because of price fluctuations in the low end market there are a lot of great deals, so here is a list of the low end gpus based on performance. if you can find these for under your price range you'll be able to make an informed choice. none of these needs 2gb of memory, and make certain they have gddr5 ram.

the price of all of those cards are dirt cheap these days, and you should be able to find them for great deals.

a small list for simplicity.

650<=7750<7770<650ti<7790<650ti Boost<=7850

make your choice according to what you want to spend and the performance you want. that's a rough idea of their performance relative to eachother.

the AMD radeons at the 7770 range and higher come with games which can make them awesome values. So if you find a 7770 for <100 and it comes with 2 games you're basically getting the gpu for nearly free.
 
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roberob23

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Ok. So let say more along the lines of 6-7. I'm fairly new at win7, and right now the HDD is at a 5.9, while the CPU and RAM are at 7.4 and 7.5 respectively. I was just guessing at keeping the number above the HDD if that's what is going to be the slowest in the chain. Was I looking at it incorrectly?
 
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windows experience numbers don't mean anything. i wouldn't even look at it. that said all of those gpus will put up a windows experience number close to a maxed out 7.9 (thats why those windows experience numbers mean nothing)

and you're right, the windows experience numbers are limited by the slowest part. which for most people is either the ram or hard drive.
 
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Great info. Thanks a lot. Anything u can tell me about the differences between manufacturers? EVGA, ASUS, XFX, Sapphire, GB. Are they all the same? I assume they all use the same architecture correct?
 
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Asus, Sapphire, EVGA, Gigabyte are the big gpu makers. there are others who make good ones too, but if you go with one of those you should be alright.
 
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