Which of these cards would work best for media Transcoding?

[BurningSkyline]

/Topic - and this is assuming that the model of card has the highest amount of RAM available.

9400GT
9500GT
9600GSO
GT 210
GT 220
GT 240
GT 430

If it matters, It will be transcoding video on a home server. (probably on linux. Hopefully using CUDA.)

 

[Trotter]

Almost all transcoding is done by the CPU. Grab a quad and you will be set. Intel has the advantage on this one and always has as their chips seem to handle this task faster.

I have read about CUDA being used for this, but I haven't seen it in action or know what programs use it. If you were to find out then you would want to get the 430, but a 450 or 460 would definitely be better for everything as the 430 is rather low end.