[Bushbasher]

Originally Posted by poppa smurf

$2300 is for whole new machine that I can buy through apple direct for $1999 with free postage............he seemed to think my imac is getting a bit long in the tooth and that the power supply will go next, followed by the hard drive.

new video card, plus install, is $634.....($409 for card $225 for labour).............not counting $25 freight and the $90 for "bench testing".

I need the speed and power for photo's...........we travel a lot and have umpteen trillion photos that I process through light room or Photoshop.

plus it is just a nice machine to use.

currently using nanna smurfs Toshiba laptop running windows 8.1............someone please shoot me now!!!!!!!!!!

Mate, I have a pc with a 10yr old power supply and hard drive and it's still going strong and another HD that's at least 7yrs old and gets a flogging day in and day out as it's part of my media storage. As for $90 to "bench test", that seems a bit rude.
Tell you what, get whatever graphics card you think appropriate, use the money you saved to pay for fuel and bring the whole lot to me and I'll do the swap and plug it in and turn it on, oh...er...I mean "bench test it". Then we'll go spend the day fishing. You can choose between fishing for yellow fin whiting around here or going to Gunya beach and having a bit of sport fighting the salmon.