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If your a Linux gangster wanting to run Ubuntu Jaunty your world is good with this card.

I wannna be a Linux gangster,I suffer from jaundice already will my world still be good?

Not unless you find a slot to plug this.

I want to try SLI with 2 cheaper cards, to get the performance of a really expensive card. Would getting 2 of these do that? Any others?

Is this card okay for any graphics/photo editing jobs?

#4: no, not even a little. You need to put two gaming cards in SLI to get gaming performance. Two cards mainly intended for accelerating video playback will not give you anything worth gaming on.

If you'd like a low cost gaming setup, get a good single card for cheap. Like, the Radeon 4850 that was recently on sale for $55. That card would be much, much faster than two of these in SLI.

#5: well, are you planning to use GPU accleration, like in the newest Adobe products? If so, you'd want to get something with more processing power. Like, the abovementioned Radeon 4850 for $55.

Also, you'll want to go with a Radeon card, not a GeForce. nVidia has severely limited the acceleration of Adobe products on their GeForce lineup, only allowing full acceleration on their expensive Quadro cards.

On the other hand, ATI is allowing full Adobe CS4 acceleration on all of their DX10(and newer) video cards, Radeon 2xxx series and later. link: http://bensbargains.net

Of course, if you're not using GPU accelerated software, then this is perfectly fine for photo editing.

I dont know very much about video cards, and I currently have a MA78GM-US2H Gigabyte mobo, with integrated Radeon HD3200 graphics. I notice that some of my movies are kinda of choppy here and there, would this card be a step up? I do have the PCIe x16 slot open..

#6, thanks a lot for the detailed information!

I have not looked at these stuff for a while and did not have a clue that the market is growing complicatedly! Ten years ago, all I concerned with regarding video cards were memory size and either nVidia or ATI chips.

My little sister wants to have one. I have no idea what type of editing software she wants to go with. Your information is very helpful. Thanks again!

<table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Kaelum wrote:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">I dont know very much about video cards, and I currently have a MA78GM-US2H Gigabyte mobo, with integrated Radeon HD3200 graphics. I notice that some of my movies are kinda of choppy here and there, would this card be a step up? I do have the PCIe x16 slot open..</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody">

Here's a thought, get a 3450 for $20 -AR and get the extra 10%; and see how that works by engaging Hybrid Crossfire of your 780G Mobo, which Gigabyte is showing support.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121259

http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/ati-hybrid-graphics/Pages/ati-hybrid-graphics.aspx

http://game.amd.com/us-en/content/images/crossfirex/CF_combo_chart.jpg

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2272629,00.asp

http://hothardware.com/Articles/AMD-780G-Chipset-and-Athlon-X2-4850e-Preview-/?page=1

As to the 4350 there's not that much difference between them, while 4350 aren't supported in Hybrid Crossfi... [Truncated]

Thanks for the advice for a crap entry level cards guys, very "in depth".

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Great linux inference.