Graphics Card

[Creativemind]

Hi All!

How essential is a decent graphics card if you're not gaming on your computer? About 2 months ago my one packed up so need another.

I'm obviously gonna just be opening vst's and running Reaper with the RRP etc.

Thanks!

[jam-s]

Pretty much anything with PCI express interface and 4+ GB video RAM should work out OK. Even most modern on-board GPUs should be OK.

[DaveyG]

My last two music PCs have just used the gfx interface built-in to the motherboard and been fine for everything, including scoring to video. The only downside is that it nicks a bit of the main RAM so make sure you have enough of that.

[pushedbutton]

There's gpu.audio making vst's that run on a gpu, they have 3 products so far, I think you can live without them for now.
CPU and RAM are much more important to a DAW machine.