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by Mike McNamee Published 01/12/2016

As the list shows, the SSD OS is only 7% of the component cost so it is not too critical.

Graphics Card

The graphics card specified by Chillblast (the NVIDIA Quadro K2200 4GB) is the highest cost item in the parts list and represents 29% of the component's costs. Today's graphics card does quite a bit of the work that was formerly carried out by the CPU and Adobe recommend 2GB of on-graphics VRAM to run the features listed below (at all, or at optimum speed). We left the spec at 4GB to give a little more headroom given the drone video and panorama rendering work we occasionally carry out.

The cost effect of the onboard VRAM is shown in the list:

At these prices we elected to install just a single graphics card and possibly forego the ability to calibrate the secondary monitor.

Adobe Photoshop features that require higher power in the graphics card

• Artboards
• Camera Raw
• 3D
• Scrubby Zoom
• Birds Eye View
• Flick Panning
• Smooth Brush Resizing
• Image Size - Preserve Details
• Select Focus
• Blur Gallery - Field Blur, Iris Blur, Tilt-Shift, Path Blur, Spin Blur (OpenCL accelerated)
• Smart Sharpen (Noise Reduction - OpenCL accelerated)
• Oil Paint (OpenCL accelerated)
• Render - Flame, Picture Frame, and Tree
• Perspective Warp

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