Quote Originally Posted by elmo_2006


Using Photoshop or any other image editing software you will ONLYneeda card that supports the resolution you need to run at, any 50.00cardshould do this. If you arelooking at gaming and CAD and stuff then gofor a beefy card.


Photoshop speed is not done via the GPU,its more dependant on the CPU cycles. Save$tiny_mce_markernbsp;for the processor, RAM and mainboard!

That depends on which version of Photoshop you are using. If you a using CS3 then photoshop utilises the CPU for rendering. CS4 however, introduced GPU and Open GL acceleration so it uses the GPU for its graphical rendering. I would suggest a GPU capable of DirectX 10 (Nvidia 275 GTX or higher) and any of the i7 Cpu's.


RAM is also important as when you are working with many layers that information is stored as separate packets within the RAM. Get 8Gb and you'll never have to worry about the machine bogging down.


Hope this helps.