Video Card Selection

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No Where Man
Apr 11, 2004
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System Spec’s – P4 – 1.8gz, 512mb RAM, Matrox G400Max

I’m considering replacing my video card for a faster/more powerful one. I’m looking at the Matrox P750, an Nvidia Quadro FX500 or NVS 280.

Would appreciate any comments regarding the video quality of tne Quadro cards.
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tacitr
Apr 11, 2004
Would appreciate any comments regarding the video quality of tne Quadro cards.

For Photoshop, or for gaming?

For Photoshop, it makes very little difference what kind of card you have. Photoshop is a strictly 2D program; it does not use, and will not benefit from, expensive 3D accelerated cards. The biggest, fanciest, flashiest card on the market makes absolutely no difference whatsoever to Photoshop.

If your only concern is Photoshop, save your money and go with an inexpensive 2D accelerated Matrox card. If, on the other hand, you’ll be doing anything (games, 3D rendering, whatever) that can benefit from a 3D accelerated card, the best card for you depends at least partly on what applications you plan on using and how you plan to use the card.

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niicko
Apr 11, 2004
Floating point however is important, especially when resizing in the canvas if your working on a high def image. That is, if u want fast refresh otherwise you can wait for the screen to update with the new grid locations.

"Tacit" wrote in message
Would appreciate any comments regarding the video quality of tne Quadro cards.

For Photoshop, or for gaming?

For Photoshop, it makes very little difference what kind of card you have. Photoshop is a strictly 2D program; it does not use, and will not benefit
from,
expensive 3D accelerated cards. The biggest, fanciest, flashiest card on
the
market makes absolutely no difference whatsoever to Photoshop.
If your only concern is Photoshop, save your money and go with an
inexpensive
2D accelerated Matrox card. If, on the other hand, you’ll be doing
anything
(games, 3D rendering, whatever) that can benefit from a 3D accelerated
card,
the best card for you depends at least partly on what applications you
plan on
using and how you plan to use the card.

—
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Waldo
Apr 13, 2004
Get yourself an ATI or NVidia chip, the unique selling point of Matrox is from "ages" ago and very soon graphical applications will use the faster chips for the floating point operations as well. My Matrox G550 is not fast in 3D (or actually, it sucks with 3D) and the other chip manufacturers make high speeds 3D graphics cards that can be misused for other purposes as well (like image processing).

Waldo

"Nick" wrote in message
Floating point however is important, especially when resizing in the
canvas
if your working on a high def image. That is, if u want fast refresh otherwise you can wait for the screen to update with the new grid
locations.
"Tacit" wrote in message
Would appreciate any comments regarding the video quality of tne Quadro cards.

For Photoshop, or for gaming?

For Photoshop, it makes very little difference what kind of card you
have.
Photoshop is a strictly 2D program; it does not use, and will not
benefit
from,
expensive 3D accelerated cards. The biggest, fanciest, flashiest card on
the
market makes absolutely no difference whatsoever to Photoshop.
If your only concern is Photoshop, save your money and go with an
inexpensive
2D accelerated Matrox card. If, on the other hand, you’ll be doing
anything
(games, 3D rendering, whatever) that can benefit from a 3D accelerated
card,
the best card for you depends at least partly on what applications you
plan on
using and how you plan to use the card.

—
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Nanohazard T-shirts now available! http://www.villaintees.com Art, literature, shareware, polyamory, kink, and more:
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