I'm building a PC that I intended to build a few months ago, until real life intervened, and the graphics market seems to have moved on again. So I'm after opinions on the right level of card to get.
The criteria are :-
1) Colour fidelity. For digital photography, I'm putting colour accuracy at the top of the list
2) Reasonable noise levels.
3) Occasional gaming, but I'm not a gamer and getting bells and whistles doesn't bother me. If the card I end up with does it, great. If it doesn't, oh well. Not a problem. I'd up the budget by £20 or so IF it was going to make a significant gaming difference, but any more than that is not worth it to me. Put it this way, the last game I bought (or acquired, for that matter) was Quake 3. I've got a couple of HalfLife (not HL2) modules sitting on the shelf, still shrink-wrapped.
4) Budget. Within reason, whatever it takes. Stupid money is out, but anything reasonable (say sub-£250-ish) is OK providing I'm not just paying for features I won't use, like high-end gaming. However, as long as I get what I need, the lower the better. If I can do it for £100 or less, so much the better.
5) Watching movies. This is not an issue at all, as I don't EVER use a PVC for this.
Oh, and system spec. Core Quad with 4GB of PC8500, Raptor boot and a couple of 500GB drives, with main data storage on a big external Ultra-SCSI RAID box. In other words, the system spec is decently high-end but not state of the art, and I'm after quality but value for money.
My problem is I'm thoroughly out of touch with graphics cards. I'm inclined towards ATI chipsets, due to their historical reputation for colour rendition, but is this still the case?
So ..... :-
ATI or nVidia?
And which version?
I'm currently inclined towards the 256MB Power Color RX1950Pro Arctic Cooling (Scan LN19107), largely because of the cooler, and because XT versions seem hard to locate, but the 320MB EVGA 8800GTS Superclocked (Scan LN17576) also has my attention. Both are based on a very limited grasp of the state of things.
Any suggestions or comments, bearing in mind the above criteria?


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