Thanks to the helpful insights of you folks I've gone from the
"ignorance is bliss" stage on to "little knowledge is dangerous" state!
I'm not really sure if that's an overall improvement though...

Anyway, given that 90% of my work will be editing miniDV and only 10%
will be gaming I am thinking that it is the 10% that I need to focus my
purchasing on. Therefore I will look for a really powerful gaming card
(on for Microsoft FS) and then hope that it does the video editing stuff
as well.

I hope this makes sense. Now off to the Ati site to try and make sense
of all their different cards

Gee... I hope my wifes copy of "Scrabble" will still run OK. <grin>
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On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:14:33 -0600, Roger Buchanan
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Thanks to the helpful insights of you folks I've gone from the
>"ignorance is bliss" stage on to "little knowledge is dangerous" state!
>I'm not really sure if that's an overall improvement though...
>
>Anyway, given that 90% of my work will be editing miniDV and only 10%
>will be gaming I am thinking that it is the 10% that I need to focus my
>purchasing on. Therefore I will look for a really powerful gaming card
>(on for Microsoft FS) and then hope that it does the video editing stuff
>as well.
>
>I hope this makes sense. Now off to the Ati site to try and make sense
>of all their different cards
>
>Gee... I hope my wifes copy of "Scrabble" will still run OK. <grin>

How much money are you willing to spend? That is the real deciding
factor.

"Roger Buchanan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks to the helpful insights of you folks I've gone from the
> "ignorance is bliss" stage on to "little knowledge is dangerous" state!
> I'm not really sure if that's an overall improvement though...
>
> Anyway, given that 90% of my work will be editing miniDV and only 10%
> will be gaming I am thinking that it is the 10% that I need to focus my
> purchasing on. Therefore I will look for a really powerful gaming card
> (on for Microsoft FS) and then hope that it does the video editing stuff
> as well.
>
> I hope this makes sense. Now off to the Ati site to try and make sense
> of all their different cards
>
> Gee... I hope my wifes copy of "Scrabble" will still run OK. <grin>
> --
> - Rog
>
> http://www.wpcusrgrp.org/~rogerbuchanan/index.html
>
> NOTE: to Reply to this, remove the phrase "NOSPAM"
> from my "Reply To:" address, or it will be returned.

Did you see my reply to your previous post that said the video card is not
really what does the editing?
Here is my re-reply again

If your using a digital video camera (like miniDV) then you want to use a
fiewire card (inexpensive cards and sometimes bundled with editing software
package) for video capture(transfering the video to hard drive). This will
keep the video transfer in a digital form and prevent loss of quality
because there is not really any quality loss when transfering video in
digital form. Using a video card capture input like AIW cards will convert
the signal to analog and then back to digital. This transfer to analog will
loose some quality and is only really used when you have an analog (non
digital) camera or VCR.
The video card does not really do and of the video editing work so just
about any video card will do. Video card memory and piplines does not really
matter for video edditng. The CPU, memory and hard drive performace is what
really help performance of proccessing video when editing. You will also
need a lot of hard drive space for the video.
The video eding software can be anywhere from free to thousands of dollars.
Usually the under $100 US editors do not offer much features.
For your gaming needs, then more piplines will make the most difference in
performance rather than video memory.

For more info on Video editing:

http://www.videoguys.com/dtvhome.html

Good place to shop
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home;jsessionid=BO1E0P2WR9!1619963191?O=NavBar&A=FetchChildren&Q=&ci=2847

Lou

Lou wrote:
> Did you see my reply to your previous post that said the video card is not
> really what does the editing?
> Here is my re-reply again

Yes I did thanks!

> For your gaming needs, then more piplines will make the most difference in
> performance rather than video memory.

That's what made me think that it was the "10%" factor, for gaming, that
would ultimately dictate what card I would get. I've found that the
Raedon 9800 has 8 pipelines, the 800XT has 12 pipelines and you have to
go all the way to the workstation cards FireGL (I think that's the name)
to get 16 pipelines.

Pipelines are expensive it seems...<weak grin>

Thanks again, for the, uhm... "reminder" ;-)
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Roger Buchanan wrote:
> That's what made me think that it was the "10%" factor, for gaming, that
> would ultimately dictate what card I would get. I've found that the
> Raedon 9800 has 8 pipelines, the 800XT has 12 pipelines and you have to
> go all the way to the workstation cards FireGL (I think that's the name)
> to get 16 pipelines.
>
> Pipelines are expensive it seems...<weak grin>
>
> Thanks again, for the, uhm... "reminder" ;-)

The 9800Pro has 8 PPs but x800XT definitely has 16 .The X800PRO has 12
PPs,but even those 12 are fast as hell.