i will be building a new system in the next couple months. my main concern is the video card upgrade. i currently have radeon 3870 512MB 256bit that i bought back in mid 08. i've been looking at both nvidia and ati cards for the past week and just can't come even close to deciding which one to get.
i have 2 24" HP M-PVA panels that i currently use. i used to game a lot, but in the past year and a half have been doing more and more work on my pc such as video and photo editing, including 3d with MAYA utilizing the hell out of my dual setup. i know that a lot of that has to do with a CPU as well, but the gpu also plays a role.
my res is 1920x1200. i've read in different threads that some cards are better for a dual setup than others.
also, looking at the current ati/amd cards, most of them only go up to 256 bit even on the 2gb cards. wouldn't that bottleneck the data with such a small bus for so much ram? so i'm curious whether it would be better to go with dual, lets say 512mb 256 bit in x-fire cards instead of one 1gb 256 card, for example?
please forgive my ignorance on some of these questions.
thank you.
i have 2 24" HP M-PVA panels that i currently use. i used to game a lot, but in the past year and a half have been doing more and more work on my pc such as video and photo editing, including 3d with MAYA utilizing the hell out of my dual setup. i know that a lot of that has to do with a CPU as well, but the gpu also plays a role.
my res is 1920x1200. i've read in different threads that some cards are better for a dual setup than others.
also, looking at the current ati/amd cards, most of them only go up to 256 bit even on the 2gb cards. wouldn't that bottleneck the data with such a small bus for so much ram? so i'm curious whether it would be better to go with dual, lets say 512mb 256 bit in x-fire cards instead of one 1gb 256 card, for example?
please forgive my ignorance on some of these questions.
thank you.