which graphics card for Photoshop CS4

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Naj
Nov 21, 2008
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I will be adding a graphics card to my Vista 64 machine which currently has integrated graphics. I normally don’t care about 3D performance, so I was looking at the Radeon HD 4550. Please let me know what I should look for in a card if my primary objective is to (1) enable movie playing (HD and blu ray) and (2) speed up Photoshop. The machine has one x16 PCI slot and two x1 slots (it’s a Dell Studio).

Current specs are:
Intel Q9400 quad core
8GB RAM (this is the max for the motherboard)
750GB SATA drive
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Freeagent
Nov 21, 2008
If you look around the various GPU-related threads recently you’ll see that the same card may work fabulously for some and break everything for others.

There’s no consistency to it, and if you ask me, it’s more related to what other software you have installed than what your hardware configuration is. But in principle, any decent ATI or nVidia card with, say, 256 MB or more RAM should do fine.

A few useful tips though: Don’t install the driver on the disk – that’s old. Get the newest from ATIs or nVidias website.

Remove all 3rd party plugins, especially from Nik. Reinstall updated plugins later.

Update DirectX. What else? I’m sure I forgot something…
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Rob
Nov 22, 2008
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