Hi Gary
Exactly how long is "too long for me to tolerate"? I'm currently running
PSCS on an XP2400 with 1gb of DDRram (w2k) which seems to process files
rather quickly.
If you're upgrading, P4s tend to do slightly better at photoshop, but
the difference is probably negligible.
Dan Tan
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Gary Edwards
Sent: Sunday, 4 April 2004 11:43
To: Olympus List
Subject: [OM] Processor advice for handling OM images
I am processing a lot of my OM-shot images for potential commercial use.
48 Mb files are required. My new Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 at max
resolution is producing files of around 210 Mb, which gives me plenty of
headroom for cropping. I'm doing most of the work on those files before
downsampling to the required size. . . and my Athlon XP1700 XP Pro box
is choking. I've got a gig of SDRAM but most every operation in PS 7 is
taking too long for me to tolerate. I've already got two hard drives to
satisfy PS scratch file needs and according to the Windows Task Manager
Performance graph, the problem is long periods of pegged 100% CPU
utilization.
The best answer is probably a twin processor Mac G5 but at about 4500
USD that isn't an option; at least not until I sell a LOT of those
images. Probably a new motherboard, an Athlon 3000 or so, and a gig of
DDR RAM. Any thoughts or recommendations?
By the way, I am very pleased with the performance of the Minolta
scanner. This is going to keep me film-based a while longer. You can
read some of the stickers on the pilot's helmets. . . As always with
Japanese software, the user interface stinks, but I'm learning to find
things and it does seem to work better than VueScan.
Gary
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