AE video card suggestion

Okay, so I've seen the list on Adobe's site giving 'supported' video cards.
But I'm looking for performance upgrade:
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-Cineform software codec for HDV
and...
-GeForce 7900GTX 512mb SLI video card.
I want my after effects to scream, right now, it's too slow for my tastes. At work, the macs seem to blaze through it. What can I do to really gain speed?
Thanks

[email protected] wrote:
> We see this question about once a week, you might try to scroll down to see what others have received as recommendations. It's much more complicated than merely getting a card that will handle OpenGL because most AE filters use your CPUs and RAM more than the card's processing chips.
>
> (But I have no pity for people looking for improved rendering. When After Effects was CoSA, I needed a weekend to render ten seconds of one effect on one layer on my Mac IIfx. Everything since then has been a screaming luxury.)
>
> bogiesan
Indeed, I nearly peed myself when I first ran AE under the
multiprocessor settings on a Mac Pro. I could actually see the particles
move during a preview!!! My renders used a clock instead of a calendar!

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