<div dir="ltr">First off, you don't "need" a graphics card for that plugin to work. Having a GPU would enable "GPU acceleration" which means it offloads some of the work from the CPU to your GPU, speeding things up.<div><br></div><div>Google-Nik requires OpenGL 3.0 to enable GPU acceleration, the list of graphics cards you provided are just examples of cards that support OpenGL 3.0, that support a newer version of OpenGL should work as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Since your budget is <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">£50 the best card you can afford is probably an R7 250 from AMD. It's a re-branding of the HD 8670 but even though "HD8000 Series" isn't listed you don't need to worry because it supports OpenGL 4.4 - I also called Nik Software to confirm it would work.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">Here's a list of R7 250s available in the UK:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#c=150&sort=a7" target="_blank">http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#c=150&sort=a7</a></font><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">This Asus is currently </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">£</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">47.21 with free shipping from Amazon:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-r72501gd5" target="_blank">http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-r72501gd5</a></font><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">You can read up on the card by browsing some reviews here:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.techpowerup.com/reviewdb/Graphics-Cards/AMD/R7-250/" target="_blank">http://www.techpowerup.com/reviewdb/Graphics-Cards/AMD/R7-250/</a></font><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div>I hope this helps.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Norman Silverstone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:norman@littletank.org" target="_blank">norman@littletank.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
You can get a Radeon HD 6450 shipped for under $50<br>
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They're fanless, require no power connectors, and play nicely with Linux<br>
with both the open-source and proprietary drivers - at least as per<br>
Phoronix.<br>
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Seems like a good option to test the waters with a low barrier to entry.<br>
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Of course, if I knew what software you were using and what budget you<br>
have I could make a better suggestion.<br>
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I do not need the GDU to run any software in Xubuntu, it is to run a plug-in called Google-NIK on Photoshop on my Windows 7 installation. Now if there is a way to be able to use the GDU on Windows without it interfering with Xububtu 12.04.1 LTS. that would be ideal. Budget is not a real problem but let's say up to £50.<br>
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I have tried to sort the problem out using Google but have ended up being more confused then ever.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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