Bottleneck question...

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The machine is/will be used primarily for Photoshop and Illustrator.

P4 2.6C (800FSB)
P4C800 Deluxe
2GB DDR400 Kingston HyperX
(2) Maxtor 160GB SATA drives
Using onboard LAN, sound, etc.

But I only have a AGP Matrox G550, I plan on replacing the card, but
should it be replace immediately, or can it wait ? Meaning, will the entire
system feel the pain of the older AGP card in it ?

I already put a 9800 Pro XT in my machine, but that ate the budget for this
machines' card (for now).

Thanks.
 
noone said:
The machine is/will be used primarily for Photoshop and Illustrator.

But I only have a AGP Matrox G550, I plan on replacing the card, but
should it be replace immediately, or can it wait ? Meaning, will the entire
system feel the pain of the older AGP card in it ?
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You´re planing to do only 2d stuff like Photoshop and Illustrator? The
G550 is the perfect card for that kind of work (great image quality,
great divers, great 2d performance).
ATI and nVidia cards suck in every disciplin except 3d-perfomance. So if
you don´t need 3d perfomance go with Matrox. If you are a gamer, go with
ATI or nVidia.

Christian
 
thanks all. i found this on the matrox faq site:

17.. Do Matrox boards support the new AGP Pro specification in Pentium 4
systems?
1.. Our G550, G450, and most* G400-based AGP products support the AGP Pro
specification, running in either 1.5v or 3.3v AGP slots. (*Millennium G400
boards with a "4A" in the part number, as well as all Marvel G400-TV boards,
support 1.5v AGP Pro slots ).
 
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