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Video card importance for FinalCut?
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Apr 1, 2008, 10:55 AM
 
Hi, a friend of mine want to upgrade his PM G5 1.6. He's basically only doing some Photoshop but mainly using FC.

I'm gonna upgrade the RAM from 1 to 3 Gig.

Is it worth upgrading his 9600 radeon? Any choice apart the x800?

What else could we upgrade?

Thanks!

P.S.Oh and... he's on a budget....
     
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Apr 1, 2008, 01:25 PM
 
FC doesn't use the graphics card much (Motion does... but I doubt he's running that on a single G5). Memory and disk (if his are near full) are about all you can do. The CPU is not upgradeable.
     
   
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