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I promised December to give a report on my new quad core photoshop machine so here it is.
The Old machine is a 3Ghz Pentium 4 with 2GB ram and XP SP2 photoshop CS3 and three disk systems including a SCSI ultrawide (14K rpm I think) and a reasonable display card.
New Machine @.4Ghz Q6600 4GB ram ATI 3870 512 Mb graphics card three disk systems including a 80GB 10K rpm SATA dedicated to photoshop swapping. Vista 32bit OS.
On several cpu intensive photoshop job steps the new machine was four times faster!
I have a "gadget" on the new system which is basically a bar meter showing ram used and load on the four cpu cores – All the microsoft and photoshop software systems I run all four cores seem to be fairly well balanced so multithreading is good. On a radial blur high quality and large radius the four cores go to around 95 to 100%. On everyday photoshop tasks the cores four coures average around 50% each but most operations are now so quick it is hard to catch the gadget meter levels.
i have no problems with vista
Malcolm.
The Old machine is a 3Ghz Pentium 4 with 2GB ram and XP SP2 photoshop CS3 and three disk systems including a SCSI ultrawide (14K rpm I think) and a reasonable display card.
New Machine @.4Ghz Q6600 4GB ram ATI 3870 512 Mb graphics card three disk systems including a 80GB 10K rpm SATA dedicated to photoshop swapping. Vista 32bit OS.
On several cpu intensive photoshop job steps the new machine was four times faster!
I have a "gadget" on the new system which is basically a bar meter showing ram used and load on the four cpu cores – All the microsoft and photoshop software systems I run all four cores seem to be fairly well balanced so multithreading is good. On a radial blur high quality and large radius the four cores go to around 95 to 100%. On everyday photoshop tasks the cores four coures average around 50% each but most operations are now so quick it is hard to catch the gadget meter levels.
i have no problems with vista
Malcolm.
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