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Need video card advice

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11thHour

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
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1. Components very expensive, cause diminishing IQ returns.
2. Niche market, have to make higher margin than other companies to get by.
 
putting a 9800 XT in a mac is like putting racing slicks on a golf cart, there's really no point cept for ut2k3 🙂
 
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