Video Card..

DOrtiz · 28th of November 2005 (Mon)

Does anyone know if buying a video card vs integrated onboard video will help a tad with PhotoShop (speedwise)?

Dell P4 2.2Ghz
1Gig RAM

Regards,
Dave

The22oz · 28th of November 2005 (Mon)

Quote:

Originally Posted by DOrtiz

Does anyone know if buying a video card vs integrated onboard video will help a tad with PhotoShop (speedwise)?

Dell P4 2.2Ghz
1Gig RAM

Regards,
Dave

Anything that will take the load off of the CPU and onto the video card would help. Depending on what you do, photoshop would benifit largely from a memory increase. Photoshop ran like a dream when I had 2gbs of ram in my comp. I'm back down to a 1gb and miss the extra 1gb, it helped out so much. A decent video card with .. I would think 64mbs of ram would most likely help a tad, that of course depends on what kind of on board video you have. As long as it's better, and will take more load of the CPU, then it will increase performance, how much is another question.

swatcop169 · 28th of November 2005 (Mon)

Video vs on board you should see a big improvement has the onboard uses system memory to power your card.

What are you looking to get? Do you have AGP or PCIe slots?

kaitanium · 28th of November 2005 (Mon)

you might not even notice that muuuch of a performance gain going from onboard vs stand alone. but its hard to say. there could be other bottlenecks in your system.

The22oz · 28th of November 2005 (Mon)

Quote:

Originally Posted by swatcop169

Video vs on board you should see a big improvement has the onboard uses system memory to power your card.

Not true in all cases, maybe some, but not all.

DOrtiz · 28th of November 2005 (Mon)

Well, I ordered tye nVidia (sp) PCI 128 to add to my Dell (as described above). I noticed PSCS2 is a memory hog by comparison to PS7 -- expecially when you launch that browser it comes with. Ugh..

Thanks for the feedback.

Regards,
Dave

Zepher · 30th of November 2005 (Wed)

you shouldn't notice any difference since photoshop doesn't use anything that the gamings cards offer.

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DOrtiz Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 352 IMAGE EDITING OK	Re: Video Card.. Well, I ordered tye nVidia (sp) PCI 128 to add to my Dell (as described above). I noticed PSCS2 is a memory hog by comparison to PS7 -- expecially when you launch that browser it comes with. Ugh.. Thanks for the feedback. Regards, Dave __________________ Canon 5DMK2, Canon 40D Canon 24-70 f/2.8L, Canon 70-200 f/2.8L AlienBees 800 x 2, Canon 580EX, Sekonic L-358

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