Minimum specs for a graphics card.

I just changed over my PE9 to an i7 2600 on a Gigabyte motherboard Z86 UD 3R with 8g ram . 64bit Windows7
The improvement is trully amazing compared with my old Core duo
I am using my 2 year old Radeon HD4350. It plays full HD AVCHD in full screen flawlessly in Windows Media Player.on my 1900x1200 monitor
Everything I shoot is in full HD 1900x1080i 25 frames
Preview is perfectly smooth when rendered. No crashes yet!
Preview of clip areas with red lines is mostly OK but a bit jerky at times. If I pause and restart preview it fixes the jerk
My question is would there be any improvement in previewing smoothness of unrendered material if I went to a faster graphics card?.
How does one tell if one needs a faster card?

I agree with Neale. When using PrE, the biggest requirement for a video card will be the updated drivers. So long as ATI/AMD supports the card, and issues new drivers for it constantly, a newer, faster video card will not provide much of an improvement with the exception of the very few GPU Effects.
Now, with PrPro, as of CS 5, things are greatly different, in that with certain nVidia cards, much processing is handed off to the GPU through the Mercury Playback Engine (MPE) and the card's CUDA function. MPE has not made its way into PrE yet.
With most HD material, the biggest BFTB ("Bang For the Buck") is upgrading the CPU, such as you did. Next and in about a tie, will be RAM (with a 64-bit OS and 64-bit program) and additional HDD's.
Good luck,
Hunt

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First of all I really dont understand why you start two topics with the same theme. It is much better to have one topic with good content and interesting comments. Am I right? ;)
Anyway, in your case it is interesting that Toshiba use adapted drivers because of hardware protection. That means that graphic card will not be forced to run at the maximum level. Hardware cooling in notebooks is very problematic and high temperature can result with overheating or hardware damage. All hardware components are placed on small place. Graphic card produce a lot of warmness and it is not so good for all other hardware.
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[greg@spacebar ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
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1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0
1152x864 75.0
1024x768 75.1 60.0
800x600 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
DVI-0 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 430mm x 270mm
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1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1152x864 75.0
1024x768 75.1 60.0
800x600 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
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xf86-video-ati 6.14.3-1
xf86-video-nouveau 0.0.16_git20120106-1
xf86-video-vesa 2.3.0-7
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Do I need a driver for my graphics card in Pr CC?

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doublevee wrote:
I am currently on a Mac Pro 3Hz, 8-core (2008) with 16G ram and an ATI Radeon 5780 Graphics card.
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