100$-300$ video editing card

Also - I will be running two monitors if that matters

CPU is more important for editing. and depending on the program, an nvidia card may do better due to use of CUDA cores. Amd will reign on easier to manage multiple screens because eyefinity is more evolved on a single card displaying multiple screens compared to Nvidia 3d surround as well as amd cards tend to have more vram usually.

of the Nvidia side in that price range in order to cheapest to most pricey/performance
GTX 550ti, GTX 460, GTX 560, GTX 480, GTX 560ti, GTX 570

on the AMD side
HD 7750, HD7770, HD6850, HD 6870, HD 6950, HD 7850, HD 7870 to some extent

though like i said in the very beginning, CPU is usually more important, as it cuts down encoding time and such.

@above covers the workstations cards.

first thing is the software you are using. adobe products are had a good partnership with nvidia for quite some time.

i would suggest to stay away from low end quadro cards. they are only slower clocked geforce cards with better driver support.

if you want gpu assisted rendering then cuda; particularly femi gpus are the way to go, like 480 of them cores:
GeForce GTX 570

EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1573-KR GeForce GTX 570 $279.99
$259.99 after mail-in rebate card
EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1573-AR GeForce GTX 570 $289.99
$269.99 after mail-in rebate card

there are cheaper 570 cards but EVGA has great customer service and the first card has a 3 year warranty and the second has a lifetime warranty.

Yet they are faster, and quite a bit. That Quadro 600 is around 1.5x times faster than my GTX 560 Ti in Cinema 4D and Maya. Yet, it costs less. I've tested it myself.

Thanks for your input guys ! I'm not much of a gamer although I might play some starcraft 2 or some tf2 every once in a while.

since sunnis has gotten good results with his quadro, that is great. though a quardo would not game well at all.

you might want to consider a cheaper "gaming card" with any money left over in your budget.

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