Originally posted by raider Currently i am using the VGA port on the mobo. If DVI is so much more superior to VGA and now that i have the mighty IPS panel, i might as well spend a little more to get a video card with DVI output and make the most out of the monitor.
Just want to know if what i am reading abt DVI's superiority holds true for photography editing as well.
DVI makes bugger-all difference to photo editing - it's just a data transmission standard - but it's well worth getting a decent card. Photoshop can make good use of a decent GPU.
Nothing too fancy necessary. I will disagree with twokat - Nvidia's quite crap at the moment. They run hotter and cost more than an equivalent ATI card. And the 9500GT is quite old (and for what you want, there's no point in ordering in from Newegg, which is a US site. I wouldn't use for price guidelines, either.)
You'll need to find out the make and model of your motherboard, so we can find out what slots you've got on there. First step is to download and run CPU-Z, and find out what motherboard you've got. Then go to the manufacturer's website, and find out if your board's running PCI Express slots or still on the old AGP standard. (If it's AGP, your options are limited.)
Let us know of your system stats, and we'll go from there. Dig around on StaticIce for prices.
CPU-Z link:
CPUID
StaticIce, a website that lets you search for specific hardware from Australia computer stores and ranks them according to price:
staticICE - Compare Prices - Australia - Price comparison for gadgets and computer hardware