irvinparrett :
Getting ready to shop for a good graphics card. I want to ask your opinions on which graphics card for $150--$175. I can always buy another identical card in the future. I am a user of adobe cs5 photoshop. I don't play many games but would like the capability to do so.
Thanks The noob.
For gaming, here is a good article, which will list many ati cards.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card,2964.html
But if your app is CS5, I believe that it can take advantage of the CUDA capabilities of Nvidia cards.
Therefore something like the GTX460 would be appropriate.
Since you do no gaming, I think you would do just as well with a much lesser Nvidia card.
The CS5 forums would be a better place to get an authoritative opinion on that.
HDMI is digital output with audio included. That is what a typical TV monitor needs.
The quality should be the same with a DVI connection.
Either way, you should be able to use the native 1080P (1920 x 1080) resolution of your monitor, and no more.
As an aside, check into using a very large amount of ram to speed up your processing. Ram is cheap.
Again check the CS5 forums for benchmarks.