I Mainly purchased this graphics card for working with Photoshop as the large images I was creating were causing the program to lag more and more, same with filter loading times. I thought that upgrading the RAM would have helped (and it did slightly) But after installing this graphics card, I have yet to encounter one single moment of lag, even with tools like liquify.
Its worth noting that my PC main specs are as follows:
AMD Athlon II X2 245 Processor 2.9Ghz
8.00 GB RAM
Windows 7 - 64GB
Photoshop CS6
I was considering scrapping my desktop PC & building a new desktop PC from scratch, prior to purchasing this wonderful Graphics card. This graphics card has been worth Every Penny & Breathed A Completely New Lease of life into my old PC.
A Wonderful piece of hardware & A Huge, Huge Difference to the overall speed & quality of My PC & its processing power, even with the same processor I have had for the last 5 years, my system has gone from barely being able to play games like BioShock & Far Cry 1 on the lowest settings to now being able to play Alien Isolation on Ultra Settings.
Granted Games like Far Cry 3 & Trials Fusion have to have medium settings to run smoothly and I haven't yet tried Far Cry 4, but considering my system couldn't even come close to running any of them before, I am Super Happy with the results. :D:D:D:D
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UPDATE: The Graphics Card continues to work Above & Beyond My Expectations, I have had really only one moment of lag in photoshop, which has been when trying some of 'Photoshops' own 'Processor Heavy Tablet Brushes' . Although have NEVER used them for work, so its not been an issue that has affected my work.
(I just tried them out as they were always SUPER laggy in the past, now they just slightly lag).
My Normal Brushes and Personally Created Brushes work fine without any lag, as does everything else I use within Photoshop.
As for Games, I recently installed & have been playing 'Shadow of Mordor' and its been running wonderfully for the most part.
Although I have noticed that the more open-world the game, the more the processor seems be pushed to its limits.
I bring this up as there have been the odd moments when there are perhaps 20-50 enemies onscreen when within a section of the game containing lots of buildings & background details, and being attacked by those 20-50enemies all at once, then slowdown does occur (to the point that the controls have become lagged and unresponsive).
That's not to say it always happens, there have been occasions when my character has fought 40+ characters in a build-up graphical area/ city section and its been fine, it seems to be more dependent upon the 'complexity' of the background/ setting where the battle is taking place. and so far it has only occurred in 1 section during the second half of the game.
I believe this is also why Alien Isolation was able to run on Ultra Settings, because the game is broken up into separately loaded sections.
Even so, I still rate this product with 5 Stars, as it continues to be wonderful value for money.
| Max Screen Resolution | 4096 x 2160 |
|---|---|
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Memory Speed | 1334 MHz |
| Graphics Coprocessor | Nvidia GeForce |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Card Description | GeForce GT 740 |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 4 GB |
