Photoshop maskin forslag

[PorridgeHaus]

Hei

 

I hope it is allright that i write in english. Jeg kan lese norsk men synes det er vanskelig a skrive på norsk.

 

I am building / upgrading a computer for use mainly with photoshop cs3, but it will also be a general work computer and I generally have 4 programs open at a time doing different things in each one.

 

Here is what I am thinking about putting together.

 

Operating system:

Windows Home Premium 64 bit (although i am a little confused as to which windows I ´need´

 

Processor:

Intel CPU Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz S-775 1066MHz 2x4MB Boxed Kentsfield

 

or maybe

Intel CPU Core 2 Duo E6850 3.0GHz S-775 1333MHz 4MB "Conroe" Boxed

both are about the same price. One is quad core, the dual core has more Ghz

 

Motherboard:

Gigabyte GA P35 DS3P

 

RAM

2 X pc2 8500 OCZ DDR2 2GB Gold GX so 4gb of ram

 

Video card

gigabyte geforce 8500 gt 256mb

 

Sound Card

Soundblaster Audigy (from old computer)

 

Power Supply

OCZ powerstream 520W (from old computer)

 

Hard Drives

WD Harddisk 150.0GB SATA 10000RPM 3.5" 16MB "Raptor"

2X 250 gb SATA 7200 rmp drives for working files (configured in RAID from old computer)

1X 500 GB storage drive (from old computer)

 

Disk Drives

DVD / CD burner from old computer

 

Other Cards

USB / Firewire / internet card taken from old computer

 

monitor

Lacie photon20vision monitor (from old computer)

 

Case:

Chieftec Silver Dragon' tower (from old computer - power supply built in)

 

any thoughts on this setp? Things that are not worth the $$ or other things that i should look into

[Nautique]

Hi ;D Gongratz with new pc

 

Is this the RAM? you ment? I would choose this motherboard.. When it comes to CPU, there's no doubt that Q6600 is a better/faster deskop prossesor for multitasking, and it's easy to overclock Q6600 to 3,0ghz..

 

Here's a test that prooves that Q6600 is better than E6850, especially if you overclock it..

 

Do you have a strict budget to follow? If not I would go for a a more powerfull GPU

 

I hope that information was usefull

Endret 1. september 2007 av Geisner

[PorridgeHaus]

thanks for the respons.

 

This is the ram I meant.

 

I don´t have a super strict budget but I don´t want to spend money uneccesarily. I am just using photoshop so I thought that the card I posted would more than suffice- and perhaps a good place to save $$ especially since it would be easy to upgrade later.

 

why do you like that motherboard better?

Endret 1. september 2007 av dataleaf

[Nautique]

Ok ;P The reason I would choose the Asus motherboard is that I have good experience with Asus, and the Gigabyte motherboard you chose does not have support for DDR2 ram, DDR3 ram is to expensive at the time.. Buying DDR3 ram now is waste, it's not like bang for the buck, you know..

 

If you don't play games or use 3D applications like video editing, you won't need more than 8500GT..

 

For photoshop you won't need 4gigs of ram, 2gigs would be more than enough.. So, I if I were you I would have bought the Crucial Ballstix PC8500..

 

Link: https://prisguiden.no/product.php?productId=78494

Endret 1. september 2007 av Geisner

[PorridgeHaus]

The motherboard I am looking at is

 

Gigabyte GA P35 DS3P

https://prisguiden.no/product.php?productId=71586

 

It supports DDR2 - i am not sure where you found that it only supported DDR3??

 

Additionally photoshop eats RAM for breakfast... a quote from this site

 

 

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewConten...rnalId=kb401088

 

When you run Photoshop CS3 on a computer with a 64-bit processor (such as a, Intel Xeon processor with EM64T, AMD Athlon 64, or Opteron processor) running a 64-bit version of the operating system (Windows XP Professional x64 Edition or Windows Vista 64-bit) and with 4 GB or more of RAM, Photoshop will use 3 GB for it's image data. You can see the actual amount of RAM Photoshop can use in the Let Photoshop Use number when you set the Let Photoshop Use slider in the Performance preference to 100%. The RAM above the 100% used by Photoshop, which is from approximately 3 GB to 3.7 GB, can be used directly by Photoshop plug-ins (some plug-ins need large chunks of contiguous RAM), filters, or actions. If you have more than 4 GB (to 6 GB), then the RAM above 4 GB is used by the operating system as a cache for the Photoshop scratch disk data. Data that previously was written directly to the hard disk by Photoshop is now cached in this high RAM before being written to the hard disk by the operating system. If you are working with files large enough to take advantage of these extra 2 GB of RAM, the RAM cache can speed performance of Photoshop. Additionally, in Windows Vista 64-bit, processing very large images is much faster if your computer has large amounts of RAM ...

Endret 1. september 2007 av dataleaf

[Nautique]

It says here that it has 4 DDR3 slots.. Well, maybe it's a mistake by prisguide.no I'm not photo editing much, but my father managed to run it nearly smooth with 1gb ram.. But you are maybe editing photos in a more professional level?

 

If you say you need 4gb's of ram you should get it

[PorridgeHaus]

hmm i don´t see where you see that it is DDR3 on there, but i think it comes perhaps in both ddr3 and ddr2 version. In the store it says DDR2 in any case.