graphics card for graphic design/rendering/processing?

[paul777]

hi guys,

im a newbie here looking for a graphics card for running and rendering stuff in photoshop, illustrator, 3d max, after effects, premiere all at the same time. im looking at spending £200 - £300. all the gfx cards seem to be aimed at games if someone could give me some elite cards for this job?

cheers
paul

 

[paul777]

we cant afford to build another pc for rendering, just need it to handle high poly max scene. is it worth investing in a low range NVIDIA Quadro (as they look pretty expensive) than say a card from the NVIDIA 7900 series?

 

[paul777]

how did u do that exactly? and did it die coz of what u did?

 

[paul777]

Hi guys,

I am planning to build 1 machine for use for designing and rendering. I am still new and got a bit of help from a friend:


Intel Core 2 DUO Extreme Edition X6800 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.93GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-130-IN)

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)

Antec SLK3000B Midi Tower Case

2 of Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) (MY-108-CS)

Asus P5W DH Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-152-AS)

Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-024-EN)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB ST3808110AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-051-SE) (one hard disk for Windows and Program Files)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB ST3500641AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-049-SE)


This total comes to £1490.10. I still need to add a graphics card without going too near to £2000. What card should i get, just a NVIDIA 7900?

Would appreiate your thought and help on this