New Graphics Card - Suggestions

[EGuitarStar]

Afternoon all,

Up until Sunday I had a Radeon 5850 which I had since Jan 2010 and have since sold to my brother. I am looking to get a new card but I do not know what to get. I am too confused after doing my own research.

I use Photoshop, Premiere, Dreamweaver, Flash and Capture One from Phase One and rarely do I play games these days. But I will be playing Witcher 2 for sure (this will be the only game I play this year, I think).

I have looked at the NVIDIA 480, 560 and the Radeon 6950 and at the moment am thinking about going for NVIDIA due to GPU acceleration support for some of the Adobe applications.

My budget is around £150 - £200 but please note I will not be gaming apart from Witcher 2 so would rather not spend money if it will go to waste. Would a Quadro be the card to get? Could I game with that? So many questions....

Machines Specs:
AMD Phenom II (unlocked) 3 Cores @3.6GHZ, 8GB RAM, 24" @1920 x 1080 and 19" @ 1440 x 900

 

[bl4ckdr4g0n]

I would go with a GTX 560Ti in that price range and for those purposes

On special:Asius with DirectCU http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-247-AS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341

 

[w00dy85]

These look like good deals, Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB or ZOTAC GeForce GTX 470 1280MB

Both very good cards for the money and what PSU do you have?

 

[EGuitarStar]

OCZ 700W PSU

 

[w00dy85]

OCZ 700W PSU

That will be fine with any of these cards.

 

[EGuitarStar]

Does anyone have experience using the NVIDIA cards with Photoshop and Premiere? Is CUDA worth it? I know I can use OpenGL with the ATI cards which was fine but have never used CUDA.