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video card for adobe

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Hi, I have a friend that does designing, and he just needs something good for his adobe suite. He usually have illustrator, photoshop and indesign all open at once. And it slow down his computer. I'm going to build him a new comp, but I just want suggest what type of video cards are good for these types of applications.
 
You wont want a Gaming card like the 8800 series, you will need something from the Quadro range (or ATI's version).

We could help you more if you post your budget
 
Any card will do here, no? Just get a cheap quiet card with passive cooling so no noise annoys him while working. A GeForce 8500GT or Radeon HD 2400 PRO or whatever.

I mean, they aren't 3D intense programs, so why spend money on that? They are, however, screaming for RAM and using the swapfile is bad. So just make sure you have a decent CPU (Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or better) and lots of RAM, like 4GB.
 
Freddo said:
Any card will do here, no? Just get a cheap quiet card with passive cooling so no noise annoys him while working. A GeForce 8500GT or something.

I mean, they aren't 3D intense programs, so why spend money on that? They are, however, screaming for RAM and using the swapfile is bad. So just make sure you have a decent CPU (Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or better) and lots of RAM, like 4GB.
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and a 64bit OS. ;)
 
RoBo said:
You wont want a Gaming card like the 8800 series, you will need something from the Quadro range (or ATI's version).

We could help you more if you post your budget
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Incorrect answer. A Quadro..lol, what? Hes running photoshop.


Freddo said:
Any card will do here, no? Just get a cheap quiet card with passive cooling so no noise annoys him while working. A GeForce 8500GT or Radeon HD 2400 PRO or whatever.

I mean, they aren't 3D intense programs, so why spend money on that? They are, however, screaming for RAM and using the swapfile is bad. So just make sure you have a decent CPU (Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or better) and lots of RAM, like 4GB.
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Correct answer.

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I was recommending the passive gigabyte 8500gt in another thread (its sub $100). I have one myself and its great.
 
Thanx for the reply, so the ati 2600 wll do? With dual monitor and one of the monitor for is the dell 30".

So 4gb of ram will be good?
 
4GB of RAM will be good -- you'll need a 64bit OS to address it all, of course.

With these apps having a lot of CPU power is key as well. A fairly fast dual core (E6420/E6750/E6850 depending on budget, OC'd) or even a quad (Q6600) will be the most important thing to prevent tanking, along with a good bit of RAM.

Adobe CS3 requires a video card with at least 64mb of video memory, so "any PCI card you can find" won't cut it, but just about any piece of even quasi-modern hardware will.

Yes, if that's all he's doing (no gaming at all, no 3D design work, just 2D and video editing) a 2600 will do fine.

Put in reasonably fast harddrives as well, like Samsung Spinpoint 7200 RPMs or Seagate Baracuda 7200.10's.
 
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