NVidia NVS Cards Decent enough for photos?

[donboyfisher]

Short of it is that i'm looking at an i7 system, and it would most likely be from Dell.

Here in the UK, the new slanty sleek XPS 435 isn't out here yet, and personally i'm not sure its my cup of tea in terms of style.

The alternative which I do quite fancy is the T3500 i7 based workstation, decent power and expandability, but it comes with the NVidia NVS style cards.

Are these OK for the likes of photoshop and graphics work? Anyone use them?

[tim]

The video card you use makes very little difference traditionally. If you use CS4 make sure you get a video card on the compatible list if you want to use its OpenGL acceleration. It works fine with my 3 or 4 year old nVidia card.

[FZ1]

The video card you use makes very little difference traditionally. If you use CS4 make sure you get a video card on the compatible list if you want to use its OpenGL acceleration. It works fine with my 3 or 4 year old nVidia card.
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CPU speed and RAM capacity have the biggest impacts on performance for photo editing.

[Default501x]

go for whichever has more CPU power, or more RAM, those 2 will make a much larger difference in photoshop than the video card.

[donboyfisher]

Well, as an interim follow up, I pulled the trigger on a Dell T3500 Workstation with the NVS 295 card.

I specced it out with whole 1Gb ( yes one ) of RAM. It'll be a flying machine with that amount !!! NOT I'll rip that out and willl be buying 6Gb myself as it was a whole lot cheaper that way, plus that'll leave 3 slots free further down the line.

I'll let you know how the graphic card fairs once it arrives. According to the blurb, it should be fine.