Re: Fastest graphic card for Windows workstation use (2D, not gaming)

You might take a look at those, which will do hardware decoding of 2D such
as HD movies...
http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=17337
I believe there's not much point of getting fastest 3D card if you're not
going to do 3D stuff on it.


"Luca Villa" <> wrote in message
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>I work in Windows Vista and I want to build the fastest PC at any
> price.
> I never use it for gaming nor for 3D things...
> What's the fastest graphic board on the market for this use?
>
> I see that common graphic board benchmarks on the web, like this:
> http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html, only measure the
> speed for 3D.
> Are there benchmarks for the 2D-Windows speed?

* Dima:

> You might take a look at those, which will do hardware decoding of 2D
> such as HD movies...
> http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=17337

The decoding of video codecs has nothing to do with 2D performance.

> I believe there's not much point of getting fastest 3D card if you're
> not going to do 3D stuff on it.

Exactly.

Benjamin