Yeah, yeah, yeah, Moose...:)
I said fine, not perfect. You remember that I aksdt if he does that for fun
or financial reasons.
You will be surprized how much the performance improves if you just manage
your resources.
A year ago I had the same dilemna and spent countless hours researching the
Net during my down time. I don't remember everything, but one article comes to
mind...the dude needed a system for multimedia and moderate gaming (which
requires much more power than PS...:) The article should be about two years
old now, but his choice was a 1.2GHz Athlon, not exactly a number cruncher even
at the time. His other components such as the MB were chosen carefully...I
don't remember specs from the top of my head. He ended up with a very decent
system by identifying and elliminating the bottlenecks, but had some
compatibility issues that I was trying to warn Mike about.
My point was that you don't get much savings by building your own system
these days. In addition to that, I would not worry about getting one of
"those" computers if my budget was tight, they WILL get the job done just fine.
Of course I assumed that it is well known fact that they won't perform as fast
as the ones in the $1900 range...:)
Boris
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:44:06 -0800
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Re: Computer for Photoshop advice please
Willie Wonka wrote:
> Mike,
>I never understood if you like doing this just because you like it, or
for financial reasons. If it were the first, from what I see, I think
you will have excessive amount of power.
>
Disagree. I don't know what you do with PS. I often work with 120-130mb
files from 4000 dpi scans of 35mm film and I like to use layers when
making adjustments. Getting a 300mb SATA drive with big buffer as drive
3, putting a big cache on it and another cache on drive 2, with the
Windoze cache on the boot drive finally brought long waits gazing at
the
drive light under control. Still, with 2gb of RAM and a 2.8ghz Pentium
4, processing many kinds of adjustments to these files pins the CPU at
100% for too long. There is so far simply no such thing as too much
power for PS IMHO.
>If you are doing it for financial reasons...it is not worth it. You
won't save more than $50 if that and will spend countless hours of
troubleshooting compatibility issues.
>
Agree
>Any $300 machine from DELL will do fine with PS.
>
>
See above.
Moose
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