Video Card for Photoshop CS5

Hi,
I'm deciding between these two cards (I do not want to spend more than 70/80 bucks as I might be selling the PC in some time):
http://www.amazon.com/GeForce-ENGT430-DC-SL-1GD3/dp/B0051UWKUW/ref=wl_it_dp_o_npd?ie=UTF8& coliid=I3KL9BC6YWAB99&colid=F5P3DUM50O0I (US$ 70)
http://www.amazon.com/EAH6570-1GD3-LP-Radeon-Video/dp/B004X8EOB6/ref=wl_it_dp_o_npd?ie=UTF 8&coliid=I2P1Y17T0IZJPH&colid=F5P3DUM50O0I (US$ 81)
I would want it to be fanless (one of the main reasons I'm focusing on the GT 430) and not bigger in height than these posted, and preferably made by Asus or some other good brand.
At the time I have an onboard Intel GMA X4500HD (which uses my Ram; I have 6GB - and I have an Core2Duo 3GHz 6MB Cache), but I'm having trouble moving various layers at the same time (this file I'm working on for instance weighs 30MB and has "many" layers and folders, but nearly no images; it's all text and vector shapes, and some Smart Objects).
When I move 3/4/5 folders (with layers in it) at the same time it drags quite a lot. Would this have to do with the graphics card? It's the only reason I could think of, because the processor is quite powerful, I have more than enough Ram (ddr3), and I even have a scratch disc that is not the main Hd.
Many thanks in advance!
Jimmy
PD: I'm working on Windows 7 64bit

I opened a file I have with a lot of layers grouped into a number of groups, and many of the layers have effects.  A relatively complex document.
When I select a whole bunch of the groups then use the move tool, yes, I see the screen update response slow down.  In my case, with a fairly powerful workstation and a decent video card it updated the screen about twice a second - a bit laggy but still quite acceptable.  I guess that's to be expected as the previews have to be made up of the combination of a huge number of pixels from all those tens or hundreds of layers in various ways.
Based on what I see, it's not hard to imagine including even more layers in a more complex document to cause things to slow down even more.  I guess one just has to be patient if working on a document that deep in layers.
Note that there are settings in the Edit - Preferences - Performance dialog that optimize the History & Cache values for "Tall and Thin" documents, where "tall" means "lots of layers".  If you make changes there to experiment, remember to close and reopen Photoshop to test them.
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