Re: Video Card specifications

Good Day to everyone!
My search goes on for my ultimate video editing computer and my quest has lead me to the specifications of my videocard.
I was wondering if the ATI HD4670 DD3 1GB 128 bit is enough for my video editing needs?
Also since my motherboard is equipped with crossfire Im planning to add another HD4670.
My question is, would that be good enough? Coz ive been reading about GPU cards lately and maybe I should just save for it instead of buying another ATI HD4670.
Hope you guys can help me out.
Thanks
curlyman26

Thanks for the feedback. Im still wondering though why I still get problems importing my clips to cs4. My computer specs, I believe, is more than enough for the minimum requirements required by the program (i7-930, 4GB DDR3 RAM, (1) 320GB and (1) TB 7200RPM SATA Drives, ATI 4670 VC). and I already converted my Xacti1010 clips to HD avi/mov/mp4 even avchd as suggested by Mr. Milaard on my previous post http://forums.adobe.com/thread/682651?tstart=0.
Side question though, does the proper sequence selection affect the importing of files to cs4?
Thank you and hope to learn more from you guys.

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