I agree. I have three clients using PIII 1g systems or better with 32mb Nvidia value cards (the ones at half the price) made three years ago with 32mb ram. They all use Pinnacle DV500 or DV500 Plus with Firewire connections, Adobe Premeire 6 or 6.5 and Windows XP Pro. They would all tell you that a faster CPU and more memory will make for faster production and more money in the digital video business. A faster, bigger hard drive will help with frequent defrags will help tremendously too! Howard in Fortaleza, Brazil RE: Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 20:21:48 +1000 From: Ultra <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Video Card Suggestions video card has very little to do with video editing performance, any card will do in fact. What you are looking for, is something that good at 2D, and inexpensive. Matrox card is good at 2D, but their price is always rip off (compare what they can offer). You may look for a ATi card, maybe one of early ATi card (eg R7500) which is very good at 2D as well, and cost much less than Matrox, plus reasonable 3D performance at its price (Matrox is hopeless at 3D). video editing performance is very much depending on CPU, RAM and HDD. Jun Qian The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://freepctech.com