REcommendation for vc - do I need 256 mem?

[imported_Driller]

Not a gamer. Do a lot of Photoshop editing, non-pro light duty mostly retouching old photos etc. Need a new PCI-E card, prefer nVidia, current GeForce MX440 card is fine, but AGP and am getting a new Mobo that requires PCIE.

I've found that with my old mobo and AMD +3200 I needed a minimum of 1gB ram to do the scanning reasonably fast. APS has been a lttle slow tho, still using a CRT.

Do I need a lot of memory on the card? Looks like to get a barely decent card will run about $50 (mostly 64mB), and for only a little more, I can snag a card with 256 mB.

The new board is a DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D. I know this is a gaming board but it also looks to fit my needs for lots of USB ports, reliability, available info on threads, will use my existing memory, etc.

Video Card recomentations? on board memory recomendations?

 

[Piuc2020]

Well, Photoshop editing is more CPU and RAM dependant than graphics card dependant, this is clearly shown as my Pentium 4 3.0GHZ, 1GB, 9600SE system performs barely better than my PowerPC G4 1.47ghz, 1GB, GeForce 2 MX 32MB Mac.

I would say a decent 128mb would be more than fine, I think a 6600 card would be fine and they are only 100$ and less.

 

[imported_Driller]

Thx. I am not familiar with 9600se system but assume it is a powerful GPU, therefor the only gain is due to the nearly double processor speed. That leads me to belive I should not only take your rec of a 128 card but might want to upgrade beyong 1gB of ram???

 

[Rottie]

ATI Radeon 9600SE is NOT a powerful GPU, it is a low end version of powerful Radeon 9600XT and it is an AGP card.

 

[Vinnybcfc]

If your really not bothered about games or 3d then any low end Nvidia or ATi card should be fine for you

The 256mb of memory on the card will not make any difference

Just dont get a card with hypermemory or turbocache as these cards will use your system ram (Unless you can disable it anyone know?)

 

[Rashean700]

or you can go the fire GL way from ATI they are very good at photoshop and video editing but the cost a bit more

 

[JonnyBlaze]

Originally posted by: Rashean700
or you can go the fire GL way from ATI they are very good at photoshop and video editing but the cost a bit more

firegl cards are for 3d. they do nothing for photoshop.