Hi,
I'd like to run dual displays @ 1900x1200 or 1900x1080.
I use photoshop a great deal.
I also stream video via the web - which has been the biggest issue for me. Watching NFL.com videos or videos from a few major sites like fox.com, etc. seem to push my CPU utilization to 100% and if I watch the video full screen, I'm begging for choppy video. The videos that give me grief are always flash video, usually being served in some format that doesn't like to be saved locally. Even DVD's suck full screen on my system with no apps running, so I'm thinking this is more a video card problem than anything else.
Right now, my system is an older laptop (Dell Lattitude D830 / 4gb ram / NVidia Quadro NVS 140M), but I'm looking at building a desktop system, and I'm hoping for some friendly advice.
I think if I spent a ton of money on video cards it would be overkill since I don't really do gaming, but to get a system that works right for what I want to do, I'm willing to fork over what it takes. (I spend way too much time in my office for my PC to make me angry the way it currently does).
I'd like to run dual displays @ 1900x1200 or 1900x1080.
I use photoshop a great deal.
I also stream video via the web - which has been the biggest issue for me. Watching NFL.com videos or videos from a few major sites like fox.com, etc. seem to push my CPU utilization to 100% and if I watch the video full screen, I'm begging for choppy video. The videos that give me grief are always flash video, usually being served in some format that doesn't like to be saved locally. Even DVD's suck full screen on my system with no apps running, so I'm thinking this is more a video card problem than anything else.
Right now, my system is an older laptop (Dell Lattitude D830 / 4gb ram / NVidia Quadro NVS 140M), but I'm looking at building a desktop system, and I'm hoping for some friendly advice.
I think if I spent a ton of money on video cards it would be overkill since I don't really do gaming, but to get a system that works right for what I want to do, I'm willing to fork over what it takes. (I spend way too much time in my office for my PC to make me angry the way it currently does).