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The whole purpose and main purpose of the new machine was to be able to handle 25 MB photo files without having spiders spin webs around me while waiting for an image to load. The video card that was put into the machine is part of the solution. It would be difficult to return an installed video card that is part of a custom built machine. I'm pretty well stuck with it.



I think this is the key right here. Are you sure you really need that whopper of a video card? Have you actually tried rendering those big jpeg's with a standard sized video card? Tell us what it is because with an i7 machine like yours with 12 gigs of ram I wonder if you really need that over a more standard $100 card. Looking on Newegg's website all the video cards that are like you describe are $350-$550. Gamers love those, you should have no trouble selling it on Craigslist if it turns out a smaller card would work just as well. And of course if that's the case problem solved.

I have the EMU 1820M as well and when I was researching my new machine I also was all over the EMU Production forums site and while there's no guarantees, the beta drivers work fine on my AMD Phenom Win 7 64 bit machine. With this stuff you can only research so much. After that you have to just throw the dice and see what happens. Remember, the market for what we do is miniscule compared to the number of users who could help you with some problem with Office 2010. Many times you simply can't find a definitive answer to something like this, you have to be your own guinea pig and then tell us all about it afterwards.

I'm a bit of a geek, I would buy a smaller mid level video card, one that you can return, pull that monster out and see what happens. Note the rendering times first of course.

Bob

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