Which upgrade option is best for photo editing for both pc and notebook? RAM or Video Card?

video card|||RAM



The video card would be better if you are doing 3D rendering or video work.|||Well it is important to have ram, but a video card upgrade might be best if the new card has more onboard ram. Good luck!|||both.|||Video Card ... if your RAM was ok|||basically, video cards are for graphics processing.. theres not much graphics processing in photo editing. i would say go for the RAM, its really needed especially for heavy apps like the adobe CS3.|||Ram is memory - unless you don't have enough for your pc operating system what you need is a video card , inexpensive 100.00 bucks for top of line which will pick up tv stations also. i think you will get the results you want from a video card.|||RAM RAM RAM and MORE RAM. but sexing up your video card won't harm you if it does not set you off too much in the cash department|||Choose RAM first, it's cheap, easy, and effective. Max out RAM before anything.|||If you are photo editing for quality and or professionally, the RAM and video card serve no extra value to you as you would not be concerned with speed as much as quality. RAM will aid in speeding up your computer operations. A video card will add a function of allowing you to perform video editing on top of photo's. The video card will also aid in making photo CD's or DVD's. This of course will depend upon your editing software. So to answer your question neither upgrade will actually help you in editing photos. Now upgrading you editing software would.