I've got to buy a new system and i'm a little fraightened by all the problems i came accross when deciding for the new Graphics...
My intention is to buy
INTEL P4 3.2GHz/800Mhz
1GB DDR2/533Mhz
Asus P5AD2-E Deluxe
ATI RADEON FireGL V3200... so the graphics are my big problem!! Can someone tell me what to buy... i need a card exclusively for 3D rendering (mostly Pics not Videos) and i don't play games... can someone give me any suggestion?? please!!
i'm going totally crazy about that!!

What program specifically?

In general the GF7800GT would be a good choice, but there may be cheaper or more precisely defined choices depending on what applications you are using.

For true 'pics' there is little need for 3D grunt, but for models and such you might need the power, and for previews and such you'd could benifit from it, even for many 3D applications most of the hard work is CPU/System based, just depends on the app.

Perhaps you could be satisfied with a GF6200TC or even an R9000. Hard to say without knowing a bit more.



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Videocards do nothing for rendering; high-end cards *can* help by making viewport refreshes (frames-per-second) faster though.

But as far as rendering finnal images or image-sequences of Tiffs, Jpgs, Bmps, or whatever... videocards have absolutely nothing to do with that.

Rendering image files depends exclusively on the speed of your platform; CPU, memory, etc.

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