Looking for new graphics card

liberty610

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Hey everyone,

I am currently ordering parts for a new build. I do a lot of video and audio editing/recording and I've designed my current PC to be used as as a multi tower. I have the Haf A tower from cooler master, 7 internal hard drives, with the boot drive being a SSD from Intel. The test are standard HDD for storage (not raided)

I'm going to be upgrading the motherboard and processor. I'm getting a AMD FX 8 core processor with a new Gigabyte board, and 16 gig dual channel ram kit.

I don't have a lot of xp in graphics cards. My current video card is extremely underpowered for a lot of the things that I want to start doing. It's an older card that stutters when it comes to playing 4k video.

I want a graphics card that can handle playing and editing 4k video with faster render times for HD video that I'm currently getting. HDMI outputs. Perhaps a card that can handle dual monitor output.

Can anyone point me in the direction of what to be looking at? My budget is about $250. I read a little bit on this that says I should go with Nvidia with a good amount of cuda cores. But I really don't know much about this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 
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I'd recommend this one (MSI GTX 960 4GB)

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-gtx960gaming4g

It's an CUDA solution right at your price point. I should point out that there's a big price and performance gap between this and the next level, the GTX 970. My recommendation includes 4GB of VRAM, unlike some other 960s. I believe the extra RAM will be of benefit when working with video editing, but I'm not 100% sure. If 2GB of VRAM is sufficient, you can save about $50 by getting a lesser card.

imrazor

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I'd recommend this one (MSI GTX 960 4GB)

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-gtx960gaming4g

It's an CUDA solution right at your price point. I should point out that there's a big price and performance gap between this and the next level, the GTX 970. My recommendation includes 4GB of VRAM, unlike some other 960s. I believe the extra RAM will be of benefit when working with video editing, but I'm not 100% sure. If 2GB of VRAM is sufficient, you can save about $50 by getting a lesser card.
 
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