The PC (Personal Computer) is a highly configurable and upgradable gaming platform that, among home systems, sports the widest variety of control methods, largest library of games, and cutting edge graphics and sound capabilities.
When I was looking for a new GPU I had the same question. From what Ive heard cards that are made for 3D modeling or workstations are not good for gaming. But if youve got the cash get a coulpe of superclocked 480s and you should be set.
If you're editing for a living (as a job), you probably should go ahead and spend your money on a Quadro. However, if your just making videos as just a part time, either the 480 or the 470 should be fine.
You can softmod you a Geforce card to a Quadro and vice versa (same goes for ATI with Radeon and FirePro). The professional cards are essentially the same as their gaming counterparts, except they use specialized drivers that focus on performance and stability in professional rendering applications (though sometimes the professional variants might have extra VRAM).
Be aware that this process is not guaranteed to work for all the software you might be using.
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