System For Photo editing

[WU-TANG]GZA;22268269 said:
He's got the budget for everything though.
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Well... not really, as if I were building myself a rig for photoshop editing I'd want decent dual 24" IPS monitors which would set you back £400 at least. £70+ saved on a graphics card and £70 on the CPU is a good chunk of that. Don't get me wrong, if you want it and can afford it then go for it, but wouldn't we all like to get use out of all our pennies?

I get the feeling that people are obsessed by having mid-high end graphics cards and tend to recommend something fairly high end when, judging by the OPs requests, he doesn't need. It may be a surprise, but there are people out there that don't game at all...
 
arad85 said:
PS6 is starting to introduce graphic acceleration for images, but everything before that (including Lightroom) only uses 2D OpenGL for zooming, panning and rotating images. It doesn't matter what graphics card you have as long as it is current and does basic OpenGL. I've tested it on a 9600GT, 450GT in my 2600K desktop and noticed no difference, I've also tested it on a 525 and i7-integrated graphics on a laptop and it is fine. Certainly very, very usable (and I work with Canon 5D2 raw images that are 21Mpix in size).
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Good post, nice to see some hard data on this. I've got tired of telling people that no, Photoshop doesn't gain any advantage from a decent Nvidia and/or other graphics card. I think Nvidia's marketing has paid off very well for them so far...
 
Any input ?

Was looking at the IPS moniters: LCD OR LED? i would have thought LED surely? DGM 27inch or or ASUS VG23AH 23 inch?

Thanks again!
 
arad85 said:
Not your specs... the specs of the quad core AMD... And what typical operations you do.

I have a quad core AMD here with 16G of memory. I wouldn't dream of trying to photo edit on it - it's far too slow.

Just saying....
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you should have been specific, he has a 2500k, 8gb corsair vengeance 8-8-8-24 ram, amd 5850 1gb gpu and 530 ssd.

we are detracting from the original op with this back and forthing, at the end of the day he has the cash he might as well do it?


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(^^ my 2 cents )
 
And out of that I'd drop the graphics card to something in the £50 range and take an i5, buy a cheaper mouse, cheaper 1TB disk and get a second U2412M. ;)

If you can do things twice as fast on your laptop, it's because he needs 16G of memory as he's filling up his 8G and swapping, not because you have an i7 or Nvidia GPU. Assuming you are doing the "normal" photo operations on PS, the desktop should be quicker than the laptop. If you have a bunch of intense actions to run, all bets are off....
 
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