Can PS benefit from new Pentium Dual Core processor?

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Ronald Shu
Dec 14, 2005
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Hi, all:

Not all software applications can take advantages of new AMD or Intel dual core processors (CPU). It depends on whether or not a software supports multiple data threading or hyper threading. Dual core processor cannot improve the performance of data processing if the software support single data threading only.
How about Photoshop (PS)? Can dual core processors and hyper threading technology help improve the performance of PS greatly? My guess is YES because PS is such a computing intensive application. It should support multiple data threading. However, I am not absolutely sure. Please help.
I am going to buy a new MS Window desktop computer to process my medium format slide film. Each image size is about 340 MB. I am not sure what kind processor and desktop is best to run PS. Much appreciate if you can share your thoughts.

Ronald
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Dec 15, 2005
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:04:04 -0800, Ronald Shu wrote:

Hi, all:

Not all software applications can take advantages of new AMD or Intel dual core processors (CPU). It depends on whether or not a software supports multiple data threading or hyper threading. Dual core processor cannot improve the performance of data processing if the software support single data threading only.
How about Photoshop (PS)? Can dual core processors and hyper threading technology help improve the performance of PS greatly? My guess is YES because PS is such a computing intensive application. It should support multiple data threading. However, I am not absolutely sure. Please help.
I am going to buy a new MS Window desktop computer to process my medium format slide film. Each image size is about 340 MB. I am not sure what kind processor and desktop is best to run PS. Much appreciate if you can share your thoughts.

Just my $0.02, but I’ve been using ps8 on a P4 hyper 3.2 ghz 1 gig ram over a year -closer to 2. ps8 loads in under 3 seconds. I’ve opened more than 20 images 320×240 minimum at once. Usually work with about 9 images open.

Biggest drain was a 20+meg custom PSD with about 30-40 different layers. Things slowed a bit. hiding one or two layers brought things back to snap.

As for a 340 mb file, I doubt even my machine can handle more than 1 of those monsters at a time.
I edit 1 gb mpg’s all the time in other programs and things bog. I don’t even think maxing this machine in memory could handle a 340 mb file very easily. —
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