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I have in the last few days run this question over on the comp.publish.prepress NG but had very little response so as I need to move on this project very soon am taking the liberty of trying here also.
I’m looking for some advise and feedback from others who may have dipped their toes in the Opteron pond. I’m looking to putting together rather than buying a dual, dual core Opteron rig for heavy duty Photoshop work with file sizes going up to several gigs at times. In the past we have always used Matrox cards and have been well pleased with them but what would be the best graphics card to use in this planned rig?
As far as the basics are concerned it will use the fastest Seagate SCSI drives with one dedicated to OS, one for paging file, one for PS scratch drive, one for work in progress and something large and slower and cheaper for longer term storage. Yes plenty of ram and the expectation of using a software ram drive to provide a very fast small initial PS scratch drive. Likely MB will be the Tyan Thunder with SCSI on board.
Are there going to be driver problems trying to run on a 64 bit OS at this time or is it best to stick to 32 bit? All advise welcome and no we want to stick with PC’s for the heavy lifting here<G>
Cheers
Richard
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Richard K
I’m looking for some advise and feedback from others who may have dipped their toes in the Opteron pond. I’m looking to putting together rather than buying a dual, dual core Opteron rig for heavy duty Photoshop work with file sizes going up to several gigs at times. In the past we have always used Matrox cards and have been well pleased with them but what would be the best graphics card to use in this planned rig?
As far as the basics are concerned it will use the fastest Seagate SCSI drives with one dedicated to OS, one for paging file, one for PS scratch drive, one for work in progress and something large and slower and cheaper for longer term storage. Yes plenty of ram and the expectation of using a software ram drive to provide a very fast small initial PS scratch drive. Likely MB will be the Tyan Thunder with SCSI on board.
Are there going to be driver problems trying to run on a 64 bit OS at this time or is it best to stick to 32 bit? All advise welcome and no we want to stick with PC’s for the heavy lifting here<G>
Cheers
Richard
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Richard K
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