adobe cs4 and shaders ?

[86JR]

im currently umming and arring between gfx cards, namely the Palit GTS 250 and the Leadtek GTX 275.

The reason for this is adobe cs4, ive specced the rig up not only for games but for cs4 and lightroom use, i currently have the following spec, and a tight budget of £1300...

i7 920

Gigabye UD5

Patriot PC12800 6gb x2 (12gb)

Prohimaletichthingy cpu cooler and 3 akasa super silent 120mm fans (one for rear fan replacement of antec 900, 2 for push pull cooling)

Either gts250 or gtx275

128GB kingston SSD (primary win 7 drive, BF2)
320GB Seagate 7200.10 (gaming drive, docs etc) (got)
1.5GB Seagate 7200.12 (photos, videos)

Antec 900 (got)

Corsair 850w psu

Pioneer DVR dvdrw drive (have the older version already).

Having to buy the dvdr drive just so I can burn win 7 RC iso to disk lol, as I dont have another pc with a cd writer.....fail!

So my question is, will i notice any performance decrease with the gts 250 in CS4 ? Lightroom wont use it and bf2 runs fine at 19200x1200 on an ati x1950pro 256mb let alone any of these cards!!!!!

Many thankyous.

 

[blaineoliver]

If your running older games, then of couse an older card will perform well. I would say for your resolution and the amount of money your spending consider either:

GTX 260 or the 4890, for gaming the 4890 is far more powerful, runs any game out max settings 1920x1200 except crysis. ATI cards also accelerate adobe cs4, even my 4850 is currently speeding up CS4.