This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] better graphics card

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Re: [Avid-L2] better graphics card

The big challenge is your OS level. If you were to upgrade to something like Maverics or newer, you can use a variety of graphics cards, even PC ones (if you don't mind losing the Option boot features.) Probably be much better performance for a more optimized 64 bit OS experience anyway.

Best bang for cheap is probably a Quadro 4000. The PC version can be had on eBay for about 100 bucks. The mac version about double. There is a huge difference in render speed once you get to a card with 2GB of ram or more on Avid V 8.5 or newer. And the card is not power hungry. Only needs one extra power connector.

Terry Curren posted info on a really awesome Nvidia card a couple months back that can support 4K video as well. I don't recall the exact model number.

On Wednesday, August 3, 2016 2:40 PM, "Lou Wirth loutv@mindspring.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I am currently running Avid and AE 2015 using OS X 10.5 on a Mac Pro Early 2009 edition. I've got 40 GB Ram and all was going great for a while. But lately as I've upgraded AE and Avid its starting to slow down in the video department. AE is chugging with refresh and some latency in Avid. I have ATU Radeon HD 5770 1024MB to run to Cinema Displays. I only have the one slot available for a video card. This one is probably 4 or 5 years old. Is there a better, faster card I should be using now that can take up the one slot and give me better response in AE? Or is it likely not the video card?

thanks
Lou
Lou Wirth Productions
500Tamal Plaza, Suite 522
Corte Madera, CA 94925
www.louwirth.com
415-924-9411p

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Posted by: Dave Hogan <mactvman@yahoo.com>

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