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Calzor Suzay

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My current mobo is on the way out, sometimes turns on sometimes not based on where and how I poke or flex the mobo :bonk: As a consequence I've just bought an Asus P8Z68-V, Intel i5-2500 (not k) with the Integrated HD 2000 Graphics, 16gb of Ram.

The question is my current system has a Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4670 Ultimate "Passive" 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail card, I don't do any gaming, mainly use it for surfing, Lightoom 3 (maybe 4 soon) and Photoshop CS5 sometimes, should I bother putting the card back in or just go with the onboard integrated one? I can't find a definitive answer that LR3 uses the GPU and PS CS5 uses it for 3d only in which case the extra card doesn't make sense to me.

Thoughts?
 
Calzor Suzay said:
I can't find a definitive answer that LR3 uses the GPU and PS CS5 uses it for 3d only in which case the extra card doesn't make sense to me.

Thoughts?
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The onboard will be fine. See:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404898.html

FWIW, if you haven't installed already, I'd consider swapping for a i5-2500K or - even better if you do a lot of editing or any video encoding - an i7-2600K. These things are REALLY easy to overclock (a couple of BIOS settings) by 20% for free.
 
I'd agree with Andy the on-board should be fine and keeps it simple (always a good thing in my view!)

I have an i5 760 without the built in GPU and just a cheap ATI 4350 and the Adobe programs run fine.

If you're technically minded (they can take a bit of fiddling to set up) it's worth saving for a SSD hard drive, I found it made a great improvement to opening PS etc
 
Yeah I want to keep it as simple as possible :)
The i7 seemed too expensive for what you got over the i5 and coming from what I have now it'll be warp factor 10 :)

I'm not adverse to fiddling with a PC as I've built all mine over the years.
For SSDs they seem a little pricey still, I know what you mean about the performance boost but Win7 has prefetch for previously used apps, with 16gb of ram I could probably set up a ram drive and with the almost insta on ability of Win7 in standby I can live without one for now :)
 
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