RE: Recommended specs for new system

[Chip Louie <chip@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> What video card would you rec for best Photoshop 6 & & use. Windows 2000 &
> Athelon chip.
>
> Thanks,
> Jan


Hi Jan,

For a system used primarily for photo editing, some word processing and web
surfing/publishing usage I like the Matrox G450 cards.  I'm using a G450 in
an Asus mobo system, AMD XP o'clocked at 1.6GHz., 1.5GB of 6ns SDRAM and
Win2kPRO for the previously mentioned work plus lots of development
programming time using MS Visual Studio and Access database.

The G450 is more than capable in terms of resolution and has dual monitor
outputs that I have a pair of 19" Viewsonic PF790's plugged into.  This is
the bomb for editing both scanned film (Polaroid SS4000), and watching MS
Visual BASIC/C programs working over an MS Access database.

If I had the square footage I'd stick in another G450 and two more monitors
to work across 4 monitors.  Maybe this would be a good time to switch to the
G550DVI and go with 4 17" digital flat panels, hmmm....


Regards,

Chip Louie



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