"to video card or not?"

[willopix]

I have an older computer (HP Athlon XP 2400GHz, 768Ram, on board video card NVIDIA GeForce4 MX with 64MB allocated to video memory)  I am running windows xp and I do a lot of Photoshopping work.  No video work or gaming.  Would a Video graphics card be a wise upgrade or would I likely see very little difference?  I am still using a CRT (HP p1130 21inch monitor)

[Jess607]

Upgrading the CPU would yield better results in Photoshop.

However,  in order to do that you would have to buy a whole new PC.
So, for now, you could just buy a cheap graphics card, and see how even that will be far better than what you have right now.

I'll need to know what motherboard you have, in order to reccomend a suitable graphics card.

[soybean]

Mainly, do you have an AGP slot?

[Chilly]

I am guessing yes he probably does, if so you can upgrade to a Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT (Prices are pretty cheap) or if your a ATI person then a ATI Radeon X1300. Also you should consider upgrading your CPU, if it is a socket 939 then a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (Or anything higher) would be fine for your computer.