Dual Monitor Video Cards

I have 2 24in LCD monitors and need to purchase a video card to support this and I do a lot of video editing. I dont need a video capture card. Which one is best for video editing, video watching and with 2 monitors? Thanks

Thanks for the reply...I would like to stay under $200

GTX 260 or HD 4870 (512 or 1GB version)

Both will be fine

Edit: that 9800 would probably be fine too

You could certainly get by with a $50 GPU. Look for models with dual DVI connectors.
The only upside of a card like the 9800GTX is that it's also a decen gaming card.

There are GPU encoding applications that use the GPU's shaders to do the computation. NVIDIA has a program called Badaboom that is a video encoder and runs on GeForce 8000 series and newer hardware. ATi had a program out there that was somewhat similar to Badaboom and it ran on Radeon x1800/1900 cards. I am not sure if they still have such a program. Either way, you'll need at least a midrange GPU to outdo a modern quad-core CPU for video encoding.

That's the kind of info I need, and excuse the ignorance, but what is the difference between a GT, GS and a GTX card?

Performance and price. They are ordered from lowest to highest price and performance.

- GS = cut-down version of the standard model. Has fewer shaders and render backends, may be clocked lower and typically has less memory bit width.
- GT = the "standard" model card
- GTX = higher-clocked version of the standard model card
- Ultra = fastest and most expensive NVIDIA card currently available. You only see this as a suffix on NVIDIA's top model, unlike the other suffixes.