4.1 upgrade

amateur editor w/ fcp7 , adobe 5.5, looking wisest upgrades kick performance. got 4.1, 2,26 quad, 16gb, mid 2010.
go 5770 card, wondering if there's other things should consider well.
appreciate ideas.

 

if think might using premiere cs5.5 @ all, have cuda acceleration. so, second-hand (or hacked) gtx 285 or quadro 4000 best choices there. case this, order stock 5770 , swap out nvidia, if want take advantage of cuda acceleration.

in fcp 7, graphics card doesn't matter much, although apple color tend perform best on ati gpus (better optimization , more output options). in scenario, again, 5770 fine choice. exception of plugins, fcp 7 never uses gpu, spending ton of money on faster 1 pointless. color , motion apps in suite matters , honestly, both perform on 5770.

in fcp x, gpu acceleration based on opencl. here, 5870 graphics card option in theory better (twice processing power). not bad idea if plan on using machine gaming well.

 

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