I learnt last week that I had won an HP competition which means that I've now received a rather fancy XW6600 workstation (Dual 3GHz Xeon QC CPUs, 8GB RAM, Raptor HDD, etc) and an ATI FireGL V7700 graphics card (mentioned in Hexus news here).
Question is: I wonder if I'd be better off selling the graphics card to get a nice new monitor. I currently have 2x Dell FP2005 20" 1600x1200 monitors which I really like, but one of them has started playing up with vertical colour banding.
My main use is for photo editing and the ocassional movie playback and ocassional gaming. I would far prefer very good colour reproduction than fastest panel for gaming.
I'll probably end up using the XW6600 as my new photo editing PC, it will have enough oomph to handle anything I can throw at it with photoshop / lightroom. But that means getting another monitor to use with the PC. So if I were to do that, I guess I could sell the card to raise some cash for a decent monitor (new they're still over £500)
So what would you recommend?


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