Looking for a Good Video Card

[Jabulani Jonny]

Here's an awesome deal on the Gigabyte 550 Ti, which is a great card and in Tony's recommended cards list.

 

[jester969]

And if it's a VGA-only monitor, just get an adapter?

Yes, a DVI-VGA adapter.

 

[jamdox]

You can probably find a GTX 560 TI for < $200. It's better than the 6870, but I don't know about getting it running in OSX...

 

[wfj]

You can probably find a GTX 560 TI for < $200. It's better than the 6870, but I don't know about getting it running in OSX...

Pretty tough to find less than $200...anyway, the 560 ti works fine.

 

[fuma]

Hey guys, I havent been around here lately much, and I really don't game... but I've been looking for a 3 monitor solution for my hack. I'd like to get an nVidia because of CUDA and some Adobe products I use. But apparently there is no single card option for triple monitors, only SLI.

So that leads me to a 6850 or 6870 card...

The main thing I want is silence, I hate fan noise... I still get by with my old silent heat pipe card, (but it only handles 2 monitors). So I'm looking at the above link for the gigabyte 6850, or maybe the gigabyte 3 fan 6870 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125357

Anyone use 3 monitors and one of these two cards with their setup?

Also, with Apple shipping AMD cards for the past few years, I was wondering if anyone had any experience with GPU rendering using Adobe or Final Cut X (I still use FCP 7 daily) on an AMD card?

 

[danielu13]

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Mini ... 629&sr=8-3

Thinking about that one or another 560Ti, any ideas?

 

[danielu13]

Edit:
http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Dual-DualLin ... 443&sr=1-1

May be thinking about this one now...

 

[Gordo74]

Hey guys, I havent been around here lately much, and I really don't game... but I've been looking for a 3 monitor solution for my hack. I'd like to get an nVidia because of CUDA and some Adobe products I use. But apparently there is no single card option for triple monitors, only SLI.

So that leads me to a 6850 or 6870 card...

The main thing I want is silence, I hate fan noise... I still get by with my old silent heat pipe card, (but it only handles 2 monitors). So I'm looking at the above link for the gigabyte 6850, or maybe the gigabyte 3 fan 6870 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125357

Anyone use 3 monitors and one of these two cards with their setup?

Also, with Apple shipping AMD cards for the past few years, I was wondering if anyone had any experience with GPU rendering using Adobe or Final Cut X (I still use FCP 7 daily) on an AMD card?

FCPX works great with an ATI GPU.

The gigabyte 6870 with 3 fans is dead silent. I had one. You would connect 1 monitor via DVI, 1 via HDMI, and 1 via an ACTIVE mini DP to (DVI/HDMI) adapter.

 

[danielu13]

Hey guys, I havent been around here lately much, and I really don't game... but I've been looking for a 3 monitor solution for my hack. I'd like to get an nVidia because of CUDA and some Adobe products I use. But apparently there is no single card option for triple monitors, only SLI.

So that leads me to a 6850 or 6870 card...

The main thing I want is silence, I hate fan noise... I still get by with my old silent heat pipe card, (but it only handles 2 monitors). So I'm looking at the above link for the gigabyte 6850, or maybe the gigabyte 3 fan 6870 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125357

Anyone use 3 monitors and one of these two cards with their setup?

Also, with Apple shipping AMD cards for the past few years, I was wondering if anyone had any experience with GPU rendering using Adobe or Final Cut X (I still use FCP 7 daily) on an AMD card?

FCPX works great with an ATI GPU.

The gigabyte 6870 with 3 fans is dead silent. I had one. You would connect 1 monitor via DVI, 1 via HDMI, and 1 via an ACTIVE mini DP to (DVI/HDMI) adapter.

Would you recommend the 6870 over the 560Ti, or is there some better option?

 

[Gordo74]

Hey guys, I havent been around here lately much, and I really don't game... but I've been looking for a 3 monitor solution for my hack. I'd like to get an nVidia because of CUDA and some Adobe products I use. But apparently there is no single card option for triple monitors, only SLI.

So that leads me to a 6850 or 6870 card...

The main thing I want is silence, I hate fan noise... I still get by with my old silent heat pipe card, (but it only handles 2 monitors). So I'm looking at the above link for the gigabyte 6850, or maybe the gigabyte 3 fan 6870 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125357

Anyone use 3 monitors and one of these two cards with their setup?

Also, with Apple shipping AMD cards for the past few years, I was wondering if anyone had any experience with GPU rendering using Adobe or Final Cut X (I still use FCP 7 daily) on an AMD card?

FCPX works great with an ATI GPU.

The gigabyte 6870 with 3 fans is dead silent. I had one. You would connect 1 monitor via DVI, 1 via HDMI, and 1 via an ACTIVE mini DP to (DVI/HDMI) adapter.

Would you recommend the 6870 over the 560Ti, or is there some better option?

Those are both good cards. With the 560Ti, you gain CUDA, but you can only run 2 monitors off of the card. With the 6870, you lose CUDA, but you can run 4 monitors at once.