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Will the video card make any difference as to the speed of photo editing? I have an HP computer with an nVidia based 8400 GS video card. It scores the lowest of the performance tests built into Vista / Win 7 with a score of 3.5. Would a faster card improve performance at all, as related to photo editing? Does this built-in test really mean anything at all?


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Not too much for photo editing. That has to do more with your processor and memory.
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Not too much for photo editing. That has to do more with your processor and memory.
Thanks. Kind of what I thought, but wasn't sure.
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With CS4 you might get access to OpenGL features with a better card if your card not already enough:

GPU and OpenGL Features and Limitations in Photoshop CS4 (check for supported hardware)

From my experience:

video-editing: needs rather more processing power
photo-editing: needs rather more memory

If you do not use CS4 I don't think it will make much of a difference.
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Thanks, Felix. I use mainly Lightroom 2.x (testing LR3 beta too), with occasional use of Photoshop CS2.


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