Good all round video card for Adobe CS2, Macromedia Studio and Premiere?

Hi everybody,





I am putting together a PC system to handle CS2, Macromedia Studio and Premiere and would like to know what would be the best video card to run these apps. Ideally I would like to be running two monitors (1024x768 res)Good all round video card for Adobe CS2, Macromedia Studio and Premiere?
It doesn't matter. Neither of them need high quality cards. CS2, especially photoshop if you edit higher resolution pictures, you need a ton load of RAM, not very good graphics card. Macromedia Studio is a suite of relatively light programs. Neither of them require 3d graphics acceleration. Premiere is a little bit tight but it does not optimally require high powered 3d graphics accelerator. As long as the card supports directx9 (directshow, directvideo, video acceleration, etc) it will be just fine.


Even low end cards like GeForce FX5XXX/6600 or Radeon 9600 will do just fine. They are mostly dual heads and can drive two monitors, unless you have two DVI connection monitors you need a graphic card that has two DVI connectors (Usually its one DVI and one VGA). The dual DVI cards usually on mid-range to high-end. But if you are running two 1024x768 resolution displays, i suppose you are only driving low resolution monitors which will work with VGA just fine.





Powerful graphic cards are only useful mostly for 3D games, and affect a little bit of 3D applications (like 3dsmax). Even for 3dsmax, lower end cards is OK. For Premiere or general video editing, you can get specialized video editing card, like Avid or Matrox RTX series. That will help video editing much better than 3d graphics card.





Well, of course, putting in the US$700 GeForce 8800GTX will not hurt. It will hurt your wallet, but not your computer's performance. :DGood all round video card for Adobe CS2, Macromedia Studio and Premiere?
Sugest mid range cards





ATI Radeon X1800 GTO 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI





GeForce 7600 GT OC 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI
Here is my preference Order


GeForce 7950 %26gt; GeForce 7800 %26gt; GeForce 7600 %26gt; Geforce 7300 %26gt; GeForce 6800 %26gt; GeForce 6300





You can choose any of these cards depending on your budget, the best being GeForce 7950. Try to get a ASUS Card.