Best graphics/video card for adobe cs4 and photoshop cs4/cs4 applications?

looking to upgrade video card, have i7 cpu, what is the best video card for around 150-200 ish for web design/cs4?|||Actually, gaming cards like the GeForce 9800GTX+ and Radeon HD 4850 aren't the best for 3D design and rendering applications. There's a separate line of cards from each manufacturer (FireGL from ATI and Quadro FX from Nvidia) that are workstation cards, optimized for 3D design apps.



For Photoshop though, anything works. You're probably better off overall with a $150 general-purpose card (like the 9800GTX+) which can handle both editing and gaming, instead of a low-end workstation card that excels in one area and is subpar in the other.|||Well, actually, with CS4, photoshop benefits from a souped up graphics card to help render much faster. Try it and you'll see

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|||Almost any video card will do for 2D applications such as Photoshop or for Web design. The only time you need heavy video hardware is when you have applications that offload a lot of 3D rendering to the video card, and about the only applications that do this are games or CAD programs. Photoshop is strictly 2D and a fancy video card does nothing for it.



For Photoshop, what you need is a fast CPU (which you already have), plus lots of memory, and fast disks (not fast transfer rates, but fast access times, which means high RPM and rapid seek times). Sometimes RAID configurations can speed up Photoshop.



With an i7, if you have performance problems, they are most likely due to disk drives, which are very slow in comparison to CPUs. When this happens, the only solution is faster disks, but faster disks are extremely expensive, so beware.|||I'm running the Asus EAH4850. Pretty damn good.....good for gaming too if you're into that.|||Radeon HD3200 1GB DDR5