ARE THERE ANY NON-GAMING BENEFITS HAVING TWO PCI-E VIDEO CARDS IN CROSSFIRE?

ARE THERE ANY NON-GAMING BENEFITS HAVING TWO PCI-E VIDEO CARDS IN CROSSFIRE?|||Unless you are a professional graphic designer & use high end 3D CAD programs ..... no, not really.



Processing video files (conversion, merging, editing, etc...) is handled by the CPU, not the video card. The video card is only concerned with what is displayed on your monitor.....nothing else.

It uses its own hardware acceleration ONLY if you are viewing the video ... if you are converting DVD to mpeg (for example) your video card is doing no part of it....it's all CPU.



VHS to DVD conversion is assisted by the hardware mpeg decoder on the capture card ... not the video card.



For perfect DVD or movie playback anything above a single 8600GT card is overkill.



regards,

Philip T|||video editing is a major one<edit> whoa!! missed the boat on that one guess I'd better hit the rack|||hey,

NON gaming benefits. and yes there are

1. pc runs faster cause the less work the CPU has to do to create an image on the screen - the video cards do this



2. for industrial applications like autocad that use 3D modelling and inverse telecine to project views of engineering sturctures of the same thing



3. in medical uses - again 3D modelling and inverse telecine comes to mind.



4. dvd playback. more vibrant colours and the video card has hardware acceleration and codecs built in - basically means smoother playback.

if the CPU had to do this it would be either a fuzzy picture or it may show out of sync with the audio or may not show



5. since the video card has hardware acceleration and and codec built in transcoding movies VHS to DVD can be done faster and features can be added like auto fix - also video converting like from mpeg to DVD can also be done faster and with higher quality without any compromise to pc performance.



hope this answers your question.