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i_ate_cats · **Posts:** 2629

Just bought a lovely 24" Samsung monitor for my crappy Pentium dual core (1.6 ghz).

The machine runs along just fine, 2gb of RAM. Got the screen cause I was finding my postage stamp sized old monitor a bit cramped for photoshop & indesign etc.

Would getting an old (regular PCI not, not PCI express) graphics card make much of an improvement on working with these apps?

If so, what kind?

Basically trying to extend the life of this machine for as long as I can get away with it.

I'll be upgrading to something else eventually but not this year.

Phierstarter · Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:05 pm

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404898.html

Quote:

Photoshop CS5 and CS4 leverage the video adapter's chip (the graphics processing unit, or GPU) instead of the computer's main chip (CPU) to speed some functions. Photoshop accesses and uses the GPU when the GPU:

supports OpenGL, a software and hardware standard that accelerates video processing when working with large or complex images, including 3D.
has at least 256 MB of RAM.
has a display driver that supports OpenGL 2.0 and Shader Model 3.0, which the GPU uses to perform rendering effects.

I'd say the answer is:

Yes.
Marginal.

i_ate_cats · **Posts:** 2629

Grand so.

Off to e-bay I go.

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