Updating video card from GEFORCE FX 5200 to GEFORCE 7800 GTX

[maek]

Will updating my video card from a GEFORCE FX 5200 to a GEFORCE 7800 GTX have any effect on watching video on my computer?

When I edit video, I notice that it takes a while for my computer to "catch up" to where I'm at and was wondering if a better video card would help resolve the issue. I believe that I have the processing speed and memory for it, but I wonder if a robust video card would also help.

[nic2k4]

What? Editing in premiere or other NLE, a new video card is not going to help you much. The problem here, is your IDE bus. Every actions you do, have to be recorded to disc, with most IDE setups, everything has to be written in sequence. What you need is something like the most recent SATA drives and controllers with support for command queueing and write optimisation (re-sequence). In fact those are features from the SCSI specs. A RAID 0 setup could also speed things up, but probably wouldn't have has much impact.

[Krispy Kritter]

Exactly, all editing is hardware reliant (cpu / MB / memory / HD(s)). Video cards, sound cards, monitors have no impact.