Hey everyone,this might be a dumb question but I need to find out the answer (all the articles I'm finding are a little old). I helped configure a computer for something (they needed to go through dell for tax deduction purposes), and is mainly using it for video editing. The card I chose was an 8800gt which was the lowest possible, and advised him to not buy an 8800gtx because it doesn't effect the speed at all. I explained that it's all about raw processing power, and memory bandwidth but today he told me that he asked another friend said that I knew nothing about it, and that an 8800gtx would be better so he ordered it. I really think I'm right on this one. A higher end might have better hardware based decoders but for encoding? ... That card for him might be complete overkill. Anyone know for sure? (i'm continuing to google search right now). Thanks!
edit: forgot to add, it's not 3d rendering at all. It's all MiniDV, video footage.
edit: forgot to add, it's not 3d rendering at all. It's all MiniDV, video footage.