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mwinaz3106   09-09-2009 at 04:45:10 PM

I need a video card for an i7 box that will mainly be used for photoshop and video encoding. Here is adobe's list of cards....
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405711.html

I was looking at these two cards (Outlander_04 told me the 4670 has the same feature set as the 4850, which Adobe seems to like)....
ASUS EAH4670/DI/512M/A Radeon HD 4670 512MB 128-bit GDDR3
HIS H467PS1GH Radeon HD 4670 iSilence4 1GB 128-bit DDR3

Do I get one of these or something else?? I'm more interested in good price and photoshop performace than great gaming. I wont get into Xfire or SLI. Thanks for any advice !

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Gulli   09-09-2009 at 08:02:23 PM

Tough call if you were looking for a gaming card: the ASUS costs a lot less and has faster memory, but the HIS has more memory.
However, photoshop is not very GPU intensive (CPU and RAM are more important) so just get the cheaper ASUS and maybe buy some more RAM (if you have less than 4GB.)


Message edited by Gulli on 09-09-2009 at 08:03:23 PM
------------------------------ CPU: Intel Core i7 920 @3.2Ghz, MOBO: Asus P6T SE, RAM: 3x 2gb OCZ Platinum OCZ3P1600LV6GK, GPU: Sapphire HD 5870, PSU: Corsair HX520W, HDD: Seagate ST31000528AS 1Tb 32mb, COOLER: Scythe Mugen (S775 version), CASE: Coolermaster CM690
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mwinaz3106   09-09-2009 at 08:10:07 PM

OK. Thanks Gulli! That's what I thought. I don't think I'll need the higher video ram, and passive cooling is nice, but I don't think one less fan in a coolerMaster case will make any significant difference in decibels.

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Jaysin   09-10-2009 at 05:52:22 AM

The 4670 is plenty of a card for your photoshop needs if you aren't in to huge gaming FPS. Sure it will game ok, especially on a i7 box, but it isn't going to smash any records.

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