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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!

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.

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.

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.