Guidance needed

[brotj7]

I have a white box originally thrown together circa 2011ish that never got used. It has an Intel i5 3570(???) with integrated graphics on a gigabyte board with 32gb memory. It was intended to be headless video storage but never got used. We now need a box for the kids, so I need something that can drive 3x 1080p monitors.

Need:
2x HDMI ports, 1x DVI port driven simultaneously
low power and heat
$200-300 would be ideal, less even better, could push to $350 but it better be magical

Thoughts:
Did the GPU assisted encoding ever take off? I want to say ATI and Nvidia were going to support different applications. Is either better?

It looks like ATI has a new RX series and it looks like the Geforce 10XX series are newish. To use the Intel terminology, are these a tick or a tock? Die shrink, revolutionary?

Thanks,
Robb

 

[Bacon1]

Is this for gaming or just to drive 3 montiors with those outputs? What kind of gaming / video production will be done?

 

[brotj7]

Lite gaming is not the immediate need, but I can't rule it out.
Vegas Pro for home movies
Adobe fireworks for my wife
Might or might not want to rip a bluray or 3
Eventual touch monitors???

 

[Sushisamurai]

Vegas Pro is a more compute than graphics intensive IIRC, which would traditionally favour AMD cards. Not familiar with Adobe fireworks.

With a budget around $250, I'd probably recommend the AMD 480 @8GB since u'll be video editing.

edited: oops, it looks like the 480 beats the 290X on compute, and 380X as well, matches the 390X. I don't know if Adobe fireworks has nvidia specific features though