Need video card advice

[11thHour]

Any suggestions? This card will be used for editing high res photos w/photoshop and maybe playing dvd's, but isn't needed for any gaming.

thx.

 

[Cerb]

Choose your poison

 

[jhurst]

How about a Radeon 8500 for around $50. Awesome for desktop graphics, anything photoshop can do, and DVD's aren't a problem either. Oh, and its not that bad for gaming either in case you wanted to pop in some RTCW or BF1942.

 

[Concillian]

Matrox is known for it's 2D image quality. I think few people have really done an A/B because they're truly horrible for games, but I thought it might be worth mentioning that they have a pretty good 2D IQ rep.

 

[Jeff7181]

I can't believe the G450 and G550 are ~$100 still... that's quite a bit to pay for a card that is absolutely horrible at anything 3D.

 

[niall]

Sounds like any reasonable non-crippled (5200, 9200, SEs, LEs, GeForce 2 MX) card on the market would do fine. For Photoshopping, it's more important to have a powerful CPU than a powerful video card, since that's where the crunching is done. From what I understand, DVDs are equally-tasked between the two.

The 8500 suggestion is good, stay away from the 8500LE. Look around. Matrox is fine as well, as per Cerb's link, if you want top-of-the-line 2D.

 

[11thHour]

thanks much for the tips.

 

[BugsBunny1078]

The macintosh 9800 XT with a power mac dual G5 system

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
I can't believe the G450 and G550 are ~$100 still... that's quite a bit to pay for a card that is absolutely horrible at anything 3D.

1. Components very expensive, cause diminishing IQ returns.
2. Niche market, have to make higher margin than other companies to get by.

 

[Delorian]

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
The macintosh 9800 XT with a power mac dual G5 system

ROFL

:laugh:

 

[jhurst]

Originally posted by: Delorian

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
The macintosh 9800 XT with a power mac dual G5 system

ROFL

:laugh:

Might have been funny if mac components weren't mentioned.

 

[Delorian]

putting a 9800 XT in a mac is like putting racing slicks on a golf cart, there's really no point cept for ut2k3

 

[SneakyStuff]

9550 for $75 perhaps?