VST's And Graphics Cards Question

[chrischrischris]

Hi,

I am just about to build a new PC. I'm just waiting for The 3200mb.p/s M.2 Drive to arrive and then I can start to build.

I have a simple cheap 1gb Graphics Card that I have used for years but My Question Is This;

Should I buy a more powerful Graphics Card with the introduction of VST to Reason 9.5?

I have had no problems with Reason and Graphics so far but I imagine that VST's use different amounts of power (Obviously depending on which VST).

I am only planning on using a few VST's that I already own such as Pod Farm by Line6 and The Korg Packs plus a few fancy things that I'm sure to come across.

Thanks in advance

Chris

[qn5]

Reason seems to be dependent on cores.
The more cores the better. Had a quad-core processor on my last build and it was brutal.
Made the jump to 8 cores w/ hella RAM and my PC barely bats an eyelash these days.

[ezelkow1]

It depends on the vst. Most of them it wont matter as even fairly advanced ones with motion and what not still wont really tax a video card. There are a few exceptions though like ones using opengl. Those can have some gpu issues. Really though no vsts are graphically so intensive that you need a kick ass video card

[chrischrischris]

Cool. Thanks for Your help. I'm actually tempted to just use the onboard graphics on the motherboard to free up A PCIE slot.

Chris

[ezelkow1]

yea onboard is probably fine. There can be one issue with intels on-board gpu and opengl, sort of what I was referring to. There are ways to fix it but you have to manually install the intel opengl support or something wonky like that. Either way theres only a handful of vsts out there that actually use it so its not a huge deal (the ones off the top of my head are the newer NI plugins like replika)