Thanks CH. I'm currently rethinking my purchase and will probably
delay for a while. My current system has an Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6550
Processor (2.33GHz,1333MHz,4MB cache) but it's on XP. I generally only
upgrade the OS when I get new h/w but maybe I'll install Win7 so I can
upgrade Lightroom to v4. The OEM version of Win7 is only 55euro and
I'll think about getting more RAM.
Cheers
Jez
On 30/06/2012, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If not for gaming, I don't see there is a need for high-end graphic card,
> there are softwares that support the use of video core for data processing
> but when the CPU is fast enough it just switch to use CPU only (like the
> TMPEG 5 video editing software I'm using). Even with my old core 2, the
> improvement with the use of video core is little (may be in the 10% range
> with my Nvidia GTS-450).
>
> For video editing you need a dispaly system that support hardware decoding.
> Almost all display card today do, including the Intel HD Graphics (for
> Intel
> I recommend the i5 3570K with HD 4000).
>
> Image editing deal with still images, you don't need super fast screen
> filling speed. The later PS support the use of video core to process data
> but I doubt how much it will add.
>
> Share RAM? I almost forgot about that since my notebook has seperated 2GB
> of
> video RAM :-) But the current computer has super fast RAM speed, it
> shouldn't be a issue unless for gaming. Anyway, you can add a graphic card
> later if found necessary.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jez Cunningham" <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>> So you would say that for regular (still) photo editing there is no need
>> for a fancy graphics card, and the embedded video capabilities of the
>> motherboard are sufficient? That's very interesting.
>> I had always assumed (and the probably ill-informed salespeople were
>> happy
>> to confirm) that if 'I want to use it for Photo editing' ---> 'Well Sir,
>> you'll need this fancy graphics card'.
>> I guess there's still the issue of shared RAM to be avoided...
>> cheers
>> jez
>>
>> On 28 June 2012 05:05, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the new
>>> Z77 mother boards support dual display, you may not need a seperate
>>> graphic
>>> card. You can put the extra money for a faster processor.
>>>
>>>
>>> C.H.Ling
>
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