Videocard for Photoshop

[zhanta55]

Am I the only person on earth who don´t care much for 3d-games but loves to work on photos and 2D art mainly in Photoshop? I´m on the way to upgrade my computer, but have no idea as to what videocard to choose. Shall I keep my old Matrox Millenium G200 or is there a better card? I don´t want to pay more than 100-150 dollars. My demands are that the colours are accurately represented and that its easy to calibrate what is shown on the screen with my printer. At large I am satisfied with my old card but sometimes it missbehaves. A week ago I printed a photo with a window which on the screen appeared almost black. It came out flaming orange! Things like that are annoing and cost both time and money. I have tried to find info about this by reading tests on videocards, but they only care about how the cards behave in this or that game. I don´t need 256Mb memory on my video card. I need accuracy.

Screen: Nokia 446XS
Printer: Epson Stylus Photo 1200

I am planning to buy a Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe with AMD Athlon XP 2800+

 

[jm0ris0n]

You might want to check this out http://mepotech.com/pd_matrox_p65mdda8x64.cfm?XID=2&TID=1 . It is a 64MB matrox parhelia. Don't know much about it though. Its 128MB brother sells for 300 still.


You might want to look at the Matrox G450 or G550. Either card should fit your need well.

 

[jhites]

You may or may not need the dual DVI head but the
Matrox Millennium P650 would give you what you want for about $150.

 

[Huma]

the g550 is still a very solid 2D card.