My son's girl friend wants to get into amateur video editing and is thinking of buying a Dell machine Is the on-board video (such as the Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3000) adequate as there are budget limits or is a card necessary? Thanks

i think it may be ok but even buying a cheep card would be better
you can get graphics cards for about £20 these days.

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Any video card is better than no video card.

I agree, in my new pc for vegas I went with the cheapest dx9 card in the shop, works fine.

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