DirectX 10- only for games or?

[clavicle]

I wanted some good PCIe card. I am going in for x1950xt, being a good choice for performance and cost.

I intend to use it for video editing but strictly no games, on XP but Vista is not ruled out too.

Please suggest will directx 10 help me for video editing or my choice to buy x1950xt which supports only directx 9 would be OK.

I know performance of 8800xxx and 2900 series is superb, but I have no intention of spending that much amount. On the other hand lower end directx 10 supporting nvidia cards (and ATI too like 2600 etc.) don't provide much juice for video intensive applications, though they are cheap.

If directx 10 can boost my requirement in any more ways please do let men know.

[puntoMX]

For you even an x1950GT will be WAY overkill and to noisy when editing video.

I would check out the passive cooled NVIDIA 8600GT cards with 2 DVI connectors.

In addition, DX 10 will do nothing for you in general; just the build in coders/decoders that can help.

[nmX.Memnoch]

In addition, DX 10 will do nothing for you in general; just the build in coders/decoders that can help.

DX10 itself won't do anything, but the NVIDIA 8x00 GPUs have optimizations for video decoding. I don't think they have anything in the way of encoding optimizations...but that can me made up for by pairing the right software with the right CPU. Drive speed and space is also something to consider for video editing.

I do agree on checking out an 8600GT based card though.

[clavicle]

Thanks!

So in that case I shall go for 8600 card with 256mb mem.

[weEvil]

Don't the 2x00 Radeon Cards have Avivo HD encoding? Uses the GPU to encode the video.

[DigeratiPrime]

Don't the 2x00 Radeon Cards have Avivo HD encoding? Uses the GPU to encode the video.

I've never heard of it assisting in 'encoding' video, only in decoding hence UVD (Unified Video Decoder).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Video_Decoder

Same is true for Purevideo. There is software like Nvidia Gelato which uses the gpu for rendering though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelato_%28software%29