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Adobe Photoshop CS - Graphics Card

photoshop doesnt use any hardware acceleration that i know of. correct me if im wrong but an 8800gtx will be no better than an fx5300 in that respect
 
brakeinup said:
Are you using LCD or CRT - VGA or DVI?
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LCD/DVI - The machine is a 3Ghz Pentium with 1Gb of memory but an on-board Intel Graphics card, the application runs with relative ease, but the refresh rate when rendering images is awful.
 
You could easily get something like a 7300gt or the like, decent performance all round. I would say 2GB of ram would be the minimum so stick in another gb for Photoshop CS
 
Curiosityx said:
LCD/DVI - The machine is a 3Ghz Pentium with 1Gb of memory but an on-board Intel Graphics card, the application runs with relative ease, but the refresh rate when rendering images is awful.
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:confused: why is the refresh rate causing you problems?
 
I'm assuming he means screen redraw, when the card runs out of VRAM it redraws the image in tiles, it's particularly annoying when using the airbrush on a low spec setup. I'd recommend you get a card with 512meg ram, it'll help that plus 4 gig of system ram if you're shopping large files. I've never used it on a PC but my work system's a quad G5 with 8gig of RAM and a 7900gt, this flies...it needs to as a lot of the images I work on end up at 1gig plus.
 
i thought that was down to paging from the hard drive as a result of running out of ram?

anywhere i can read up on this? im asking because its quite easy to slow my system down with a few large raw files open
 
Arcane said:
I'm assuming he means screen redraw, when the card runs out of VRAM it redraws the image in tiles, it's particularly annoying when using the airbrush on a low spec setup. I'd recommend you get a card with 512meg ram, it'll help that plus 4 gig of system ram if you're shopping large files. I've never used it on a PC but my work system's a quad G5 with 8gig of RAM and a 7900gt, this flies...it needs to as a lot of the images I work on end up at 1gig plus.
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