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Require graphics card advice

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by Guern, 2007/09/26.

  1. 2007/09/26
    Guern

    Guern Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I am looking to upgrade my graphics card. My main application is Photoshop, and I require 2 monitors, on which I implement color management.
    Is there any graphics card which will provide 2 digital outputs (I presume digital output is to be preferred over analogue?), and with software driver which is able to manage the color management of each separately. I feel this would be a better installation than having to use 2 separate graphics cards.
     
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    Arie

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    Sure. I use an EVGA (NVIDIA) card for that, I'm sure ATI will also have cards with DUAL DVI outputs. Just make sure you get a card with dual DVI outputs.
     
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    PeteC

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    How do you use your two monitors in Photoshop? Do you need to have both monitors colour managed?

    I use two monitors for Photoshop - 20" flatscreen for the program and image and a 17" flatscreen for the palettes, both Iiyama - the main screen is calibrated and the same profile used on both monitors - there is, of course no need to have the palette monitor calibrated.

    I have a Gigabyte (nVidia GeForce 6600) card with 250 Mb RAM, bought primarily for future use with Vista - now running Vista on a separate computer. Prior to that a 32 Mb Matrox G550 was fine with 2 x CRT's.

    Digital output is to be preferred, but is not necessary for the second monitor if all it is used for is the palettes. Most cards now have dual DVI - just look at the specs.

    In theory the nVidia software allows separate profiles on each monitor - I have not been able to use this feature successfully and use the Display Properties in Windows to set the monitor profile for the main screen as a global profile - Windows will not enable separate profiles for each monitor.
     
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