Budget PCIE card - does it matter

[Dr Zoidberg]

Im looking for a PCIE card for a new system while trying to keep the price low,
The system will not be used for games,
the most taxing thing the card will have to handle is photo editing, and i would imagine justa bout any card will be fione with that,
So is there any thing that should really be avoided ? or any thing htat just jumps up and down screaming for £40/50 you cant go wrong ?

 

[lay-z-boy]

For general 2d desktop cant beat these

 

[Dr Zoidberg]

Thanks
The bottom one looks good (MSI) but not sure on the other 3, they all have turbo cache and two reasons i would like to avoid that,
1. possibly keeping the system price down by only going for 1gig ram - XP and photo editing will eat that happily without the graphics want a bite.
2. some reviews dont speak to kindly of turbocache.

But £25 maybe the extra could go on an extra gig of ram.

 

[lay-z-boy]

I would advise to step away from the tubocache, the msi is a good bet. If you can get the gig then try to do so, when you start to use more than one app at a time it begins to pay off.

 

[Dr Zoidberg]

well its to replace a system that is currently based on an atlon 1700XP, ati rage pro graphics 512mb ram, very old very slow hdd
Im being told 'Its to slow'

So the new system is so far, a core 2 duo E6400 2.13Ghz, 1 (or 2) gig ram, samsung 250GB SATA HDD and currently that MSI graphics card

I think that should stop the 'Its to slow' maons for a while. and as its not the grpahics quality that is being moaned about anything will be an improvment on the rage pro any way.