Advice for New Graphics Card

hanser30 · Jul 29, 2014

Hi guys, right now i have an AMD Radeon 7850, i am looking to upgrade it because I want to edit videos in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. i was thinking about buying another graphics card or to buy another 7850 or 7870 to do Crossfire.
My budget is $200 dollars.
Please help, Thanks

Byte70 · Jul 29, 2014

I'd say for under 200 dollars go with the Radeon R9 270X.

kunthakenthe · Jul 29, 2014

for 200$ you could get a r9 280 which is stronger than your card and to have less potential issue and use less power/heat but it would provide more fps/visual's etc with the cfx. go for cfx if you have a 850w psu or go for r9 280 if you dont

hanser30 · Jul 29, 2014

i have a Corsair TX 850, so i have enough for crossfire, i don't mind about power consumption for the moment. also, the budget is 200$ max.
any other advice?

caqde · Jul 29, 2014

I don't think Adobe CC supports Crossfire I'd make sure it does before trying that as it could be wasted money. I'm not even sure upgrading to a 270x or 280 would be a worthwhile investment for Aftereffects and premiere pro. It might be more worthwhile to spend money on a faster CPU depending on what you have.

kunthakenthe · Jul 29, 2014

hanser30 :

sorry that part about adobe slipped my mind. this should help you edit,render extremley fast.

1) get a ssd
2) you could try to get a workstation cpu like the 4820k or 4930k with a x79 mobo
3) make sure you have at least 16gb of ram
4)get a r9 270 and overclock it to a r9 270x
5) or get a r9 280

this will help do all your trying to do super fast

hanser30 · Jul 29, 2014

My cpu is an AMD fx-8350, its enough for those programs

kunthakenthe · Jul 29, 2014

hanser30 :

oh never mind but take my suggestion on the ssd and 16gb it really does help.

hanser30 · Jul 29, 2014

kunthakenthe :

This is are my specs:
AMD Fx 8350
Asus Sabertooth 990fx R2.0
Kingstone Hyper Beast 8gb 1866mhz
Corsair H60 2013
AMD Radeon 7850
1TB WD caviar blue
Corsair TX 850w PSU

I really don't want to change my rig into a workstation

kunthakenthe · Jul 29, 2014

hanser30 :

kunthakenthe :

This is are my specs:
AMD Fx 8350
Asus Sabertooth 990fx R2.0
Kingstone Hyper Beast 8gb 1866mhz
Corsair H60 2013
AMD Radeon 7850
1TB WD caviar blue
Corsair TX 850w PSU

I really don't want to change my rig into a workstation

oh sorry i thought this was for your job or something

hanser30 · Jul 29, 2014

An ssd for boot or for the adobe programs?

kunthakenthe · Jul 29, 2014

hanser30 :

if you get a big enough one then both or just for adobe it could compress in like seconds or minutes compared to a hdd.

hanser30 · Jul 29, 2014

ok, i will see if i can get an SSD for the adobe Premiere and after effects, but do you think my graphics card is good enough for rendering and video editing?

hanser30 · Jul 29, 2014

something else, if i will save the the project in the 1tb HDD instead of the SSD, will it still compress and render rapidly?

Kyrotix · Jul 29, 2014

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hanser30 · Jul 29, 2014

looks good for the price

hanser30 · Jul 29, 2014

kunthakenthe :

if i will save the the project in the 1tb HDD instead of the SSD, will it still compress and render rapidly?

kunthakenthe · Jul 29, 2014

hanser30 :

yes it will ssds can move storage and do things in seconds and do things that take hours on hdd minutes,seconds.

http://superuser.com/questions/482557/will-an-extra-ssd-help-cut-down-video-rendering-time-or-help-multitask

heres a link talking a bout some video editing

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1349513

hanser30 · Jul 29, 2014

hey, thanks very much.

kunthakenthe · Jul 29, 2014

welcome pm any other questions you have about the build

Kyrotix · Jul 29, 2014

hanser30 :

With that card you also get to pick 2 free games.

hanser30 · Aug 3, 2014

srry, didn't check the forum for a long time, thanks that will be enough

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