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Get an nVidia GTX 285 video card. That's the cheapest one that will provide the most compatible acceleration with Adobe's products. Chris, are you referring to the Mercury Playback Engine? If so, I have a 3800 in my edit system for that, but I didn't think Photoshop or Lightroom leaned into that the way Premiere, etc, does for video work?
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I take it back...it DOES seem that PS makes use of the Mercury Playback CUDA cards. Now I can't find a Dell that has one! UGH!
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You could get one with a crap video card, and add your own. But then you're still paying for something you won't use. This is why we build machines from the pieces we really want.
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Yeah, I'm beginning to see that now. I can't even find much in stock anywhere for the 285 or even the 470.
I really wonder how much of a difference there is with CUDA-enabled cards if you're ONLY using it with Photoshop....
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Only Photoshop, probably not much.
I use CaptureOne, and until version 5 it was all CPU. But in 5 they added CUDA support. Even with my old 8800 GTS 512 it cut the raw processing time down from 5 seconds an image to less than 1 second.
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Don't EVER pay for a video card on a Dell build--or any other manufacturer. Ridiculously overpriced.
Why a 285? Aren't those a tad long in the tooth?
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I was saying that was the minimum card with the required functions. Any newer model built to the same level (not low-ball or mobile) would also work.
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I think I'd go with a 570 or a 580, myself.
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Don't EVER pay for a video card on a Dell build--or any other manufacturer. Ridiculously overpriced. So, do I avoid Dell or are you saying get the minimum card, throw it out and upgrade it myself?
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