The A8 is the more recent batch, it is slightly faster than the old Phenom
II, similar in performance to the i3-3125 at 3.3GHz. It roughly double the
speed of your old Core 2 intel and at half speed of my E3-1230v2. But at
$350 for the whole system with Win 7, it is a great deal and certainly good
enough for PS use.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Whatever it is it's much faster than my old Core-2 Intel and plenty fast
> enough to run PhotoShop. At $350 (shipping included) I thought it was a
> good deal. I just looked at the specs. It's an AMD A8-5500 APU with
> Radeon HD graphics running at 3.2 GHz. I haven't a clue what any of
> that means performance-wise except to say that it's fast enough and way
> faster than the old Dell.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 6/12/2013 10:38 AM, C.H.Ling wrote:
>> Don't know which AMD CPU you have, the quad core AMD is much slower than
>> intel. Could be equivalent to an i3 in performance. I have zero problem
>> with
>> the USB 3.0 port on my wife notebook and the USB 3.0 HDD except the USB
>> 3.0
>> cable came with the Buffalo HDD has a bending lead causing some
>> intermittent.
>>
>> Anyway, PS is not a hardware demanding application, most low cost machine
>> will just work fine. But don't tell me you are going to stitch up a 1GB
>> image file.
>>
>> C.H.Ling
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>>> My current machine (since last October) is a refurbished HP Pavilion
>>> with AMD 4 core processor and on-chip video, 8GB RAM and Win 7. The
>>> only additions to it other than as it came out-of-the-box were to add a
>>> 1TB SATA drive for image storage and an eSATA card to support the
>>> Thermaltake BlacX drive dock for backups. The machine has USB 3.0 ports
>>> which I tried to use for backup via a USB 3.0 to eSATA converter but it
>>> proved unreliable. I don't know if the problem is the USB 3.0 ports or
>>> (more likely) the cheap converter but it doesn't matter since the eSATA
>>> card (from the old Dell XP machine) works just fine.
>>>
>>> I paid $350 for the machine (with free shipping) and nothing for the
>>> additions since they came from the old WinXP machine. I have made
>>> absolutely no additions, modifications or tuning changes to support PS6.
>>> I'm sure I could diddle with it and tune it to go faster but it's
>>> working fine for me as is. I forgot to mention that it's running my
>>> Dell 24" IPS display from the old machine which is still operational.
>>> Both use the same monitor, keyboard (ancient IBM PC clicky type) and
>>> mouse via a KVM switch.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, I do not have 1/2 million images to manage.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
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