Premiere Pro CS5 Mercury hardware compatibility!

Hi everybody,
I intend on purchasing Production Premium and I would like to know if this graphics card will be able to enable the hardware support on the mercury playback engine ( note that i'm not doing 2k 4k work just HD, and not a lot of video tracks 1-6 max).
The graphics card in question is this http://www.gainward.com/main/vgapro.php?id=197.
Thank you for your help,
RObinetus

Welcome to the forum.
There are current lists of fully-supported graphics cards here, and in the Hardware sub-forum. The easiest way to tell is to look at those lists.
Also note: nVidia and Adobe are working on other cards too, so checking for updates to the lists would be a good tack.
Good luck,
Hunt

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