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1. Re: Matrox and CS4—CS5
dec9 Apr 23, 2010 4:45 PM (in response to shoot me now-d3u3se)What do you mean by no external power? As in the video card has no power cords coming from the power supply to the video card?
I use a ATI 5870 (use it for other things too) with no issues. Over kill for just photoshop.
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2. Re: Matrox and CS4—CS5
shoot me now-d3u3se Apr 23, 2010 4:57 PM (in response to dec9)dec9 wrote:
What do you mean by no external power? As in the video card has no power cords coming from the power supply to the video card?
Right, the card has to get its power from the slot.
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3. Re: Matrox and CS4—CS5
Zeno Bokor Apr 24, 2010 12:36 AM (in response to shoot me now-d3u3se)Not that much has changed in the GPU department between CS4 and CS5, i think that the only new features that use the GPU are the Color Picker HUD, a Sampling Ring around the Eyedropper cursor and the removal of the "X number of simultaneous windows with OpenGL support" restriction. You can find the OpenGL features from CS4 here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404898.html
As for video cards without an external power connection, from Ati anything from the 5670 and lower and from Nvidia would be the GT 240/220 and the 210 plus some of the old 9xxx series
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4. Re: Matrox and CS4—CS5
klsteven-vBdprK Apr 24, 2010 12:56 AM (in response to Zeno Bokor)BTW, every ATI or nvidia card of the last years has a 10bit pipline and two independent LUTs, even if they don`t talk too much about it.
http://www.amd.com/uk/products/desktop/graphics/ati-radeon-hd-4000/hd-4890/Pages/ati-radeo n-hd-4890-specifications.aspx (not even the newest card).
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5. Re: Matrox and CS4—CS5
shoot me now-d3u3se Apr 27, 2010 4:49 PM (in response to Zeno Bokor)In looking at cards from ATI (maybe a 4670), it seems that I'll probably be buying ATI's chip on a card built by someone else. Who is the preferred fabricator:
Diamond, Saphire, XFX, Msi, Gigabyte, VisionTek, Biostar, et al... ?
Doesn't ATI make their own cards anymore?
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6. Re: Matrox and CS4—CS5
Zeno Bokor Apr 28, 2010 12:33 AM (in response to shoot me now-d3u3se)Nope, Ati hasn't bothered selling "Built by Ati" branded cards in a long time. As for which manufacturer, as far as i know, VisionTek and XFX offer lifetime warranty while Saphire is the biggest seller of Ati cards. Try to stay away from Diamond as i've heard some horror stories about their RMA process. If you're going Ati then try to get a 5xxx series card, who knows, you might need the ability to run 3 monitors using a single card someday



