{"id":7416,"date":"2011-05-07T10:15:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T17:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2011-05-07T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T17:22:47","slug":"will-a-graphicsvideo-card-improve-photoshop-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/will-a-graphicsvideo-card-improve-photoshop-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Will a graphics\/video card improve Photoshop performance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/hd3850.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/hd3850-800x436.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sapphire ATI Radeon HD3850 HD 3850 PCI-E 512MB DVI\/VGA\" width=\"800\" height=\"436\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/hd3850-800x436.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/hd3850-250x136.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/hd3850.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My home desktop (HP Pavillion a6057c with w2207 Widescreen Flat Panel LCD) was a pretty decent setup when I first purchased it four years ago. However, compared to my quad-core laptop purchased last year it doesn&#8217;t compare. Recently it has been giving me problems, especially when I try to do photo or video editing. Just looking at photos could be a slow process. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, the colors went funky on me and no amount of rebooting could get things back to the way they were. The a6057c comes with on-board video, meaning there isn&#8217;t a separate video\/graphics card so I thought that may be the problem. Researching what video card would work well for someone who isn&#8217;t a gamer but who uses Photoshop showed that the consensus was that a video card wouldn&#8217;t help with Photoshop or viewing images. A dedicated graphics card would only improve performance for games. I found that hard to believe so I purchased a Sapphire ATI Radeon HD3850 PCI-E 512MB DVI\/VGA graphics card for under $50 anyway.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that <a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003D8XEJA\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=rpcman&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399349&#038;creativeASIN=B003D8XEJA target=_new>Photoshop CS5<\/a> performance (and just scrolling through photos in Windows Photo Viewer) is improved dramatically with a dedicated graphics card like the HD3850. The color problem wasn&#8217;t fixed with the new graphics card; I needed to reset the monitor to the original factory settings to solve that problem, but the speed with which I can view and edit photos now is incredible. Don&#8217;t believe those who say Photoshop performance is entirely based on your CPU. If your computer lags and you have on-board graphics, do a cheap upgrade to an dedicated graphics card to extend the life of your PC several years.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. One other item to note is after installing the graphics card my sound no longer worked. To solve that problem I went into the BIOS (by pressing the F10 key when I started my computer) and changed the on-board audio setting from Auto to Enabled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My home desktop (HP Pavillion a6057c with w2207 Widescreen Flat Panel LCD) was a pretty decent setup when I first purchased it four years ago. However, compared to my quad-core laptop purchased last year it doesn&#8217;t compare. Recently it has been giving me problems, especially when I try to do photo or video editing. 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