Is she a professional who will use a lot of large files for print?
For internet images you don’t need all that much system just to run PS the program itself, but if you get into large files you need power and ram. My hubby uses PS just to paint Nascars for the online game, the files are so small even with 40 layers (1052X1052 px) he has no problems on an old comp. (AMD chip 1.8/512 RAM)
I am using a Dell 8400 with SATA hard drives upgraded vid and sound cards (I do 3D gaming) 1 GB RAM, stripped off all their intrusive software reformatted and put my own WIn XP pro SP2, Running PS CS and Illy. I got a pentium chip this time (1C3824PROCESSOR, 80547, PENTIUM 4 PRESCOTT DT, Pentium 4
Prescott DT, 3.0GHZ, 1 MEGB, 800FSB, SKT-T,)
not had any problems so far on images up to 48MB in several layers, filters run fast etc.previously used an Athlon 2.0 with 512 ram and it was just fine for my purposes. It did get very slow with files above 100 MB though.
My comp guy no longer builds for the reasons mentioned in the other posts, no warranties, you can buy as is system for very decent prices etc. You will avoid issues of non compatibility with Motherboards and chips etc.Plus he says if he builds it who do you think will have to fix it if it breaks?
"Rod Paulson" wrote in message
Can anyone tell me if it’s possible to run the latest versions of Photoshop on one of the newer Celeron processors? I was thinking of building a new system for a friend. She wants the system so she can run Photoshop. Is there any reason why it can’t run on one of these cheaper procs? Let me know. Thank you very much for your time.
Rod Paulson