Graphics card and Photoshop

[fossilalpha]

Hi, I have an AMD FX6300 running at 3.8 Ghz to 4.1 Ghz (using AMD Overdrive) on Asus M5 A97 R2.0LE, with 24 Gb ram, my Radeon HD 7700 was overclocked to 1215 using Catalyst Control Centre, however after upgrading to Windows 10, this disappeared and it went back to defaults. I have reverted to Windows 8.1, but Catalyst Control will not install saying "file missing". I liked Catalyst Control as I could play with CPU and GPU speeds, and managed to get Photoshop Elements running at a reasonable speed without too much waiting while it saved RAW edits from my 24 Mp Sony A77. I am now thinking of changing the graphics card to an Asus Geforce GTX 960 STRIX OC 2Gb.Will this give me the fast processing I have become used to? Default is sooo slow. Sorry if its a long question, but I wanted to give as much info as possible.
PS I am not a gamer, PC is used for photo processing and surfing.
John

 

[Glanza]

Have you tried running DDU then reinstalling your graphics drivers?

 

[beany_bot]

Im a little confused, you had an overclocked GPU on win 8.1 and when you switched to windows 10 you lost your OC. so now your back with 8.1?

Go back to Win 10 and install MSI afterburner. Put in your overclock. Jobs done.

I might be wrong but I don't thing the GPU gets used that much in photoshop? not as much as people think? someone may correct me on that.

 

[fossilalpha]

Thanks beany bot, loaded afterburner and now trying to remember settings. This seems to be what I need, for some reason I thought this would not work with an AMD card. AS far as I understood it, Photoshop did most of its work via the graphics card not the Cpu. Anyway having given afterburner a bit of a play, it seems to be faster. When deleting about 10 large files I could have made a cup of tea before it was ready to continu with default settings!!
John

 

[fossilalpha]

Update
MSI Afterburner is working well, at least so far anyway, running at less than Catalyst did, but still saving and editing as fast, almost instant. It seems to be showing better pics too- even makes my photos look good!
Oh to explain how I lost Catalyst Control in the first place, with the upgrade to windows 10, it installed the latest Crimson drivers, which removed the Catalyst ones, so I thought revert to 8.1 and reinstall CCC, but no such luck. Anyway afterburner seems better.
john