New PC for CS3?

JB
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just bob
May 14, 2007
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I’ve been doing everything on a laptop virtually forever but it’s time I have a nice desktop, too.

Plus I don’t want CS3 near my laptop until I’ve flushed it out!

I rarely work with files larger than 100MB, and never larger than 200MB, or whatever a 16MP Raw from a 1DsM2 becomes when you save it as PSD. I rent that camera when I need to but most of my work is with the 8.2MP 1D2.

I’m thinking of a Intel E6400 CPU with 4GB of RAM for Windows XP Pro.

I’d like firewire on the motherboard.

I want to run a two-monitor setup, of which currently I have only one monitor which support DVI.

So I need two PCI-Express video cards. Which ones? Is 256MB per card enough? If I ever plan on running Vista of course I would need 512MB per card to support Aero without shared memory.

Preferred motherboard brand is Asus but are there others you like?

I would pay up to $2000 for the right system.

I don’t mind building the system myself but is there anyone out there selling a computer like this right off the shelf?

Thanks!

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Roberto
May 15, 2007
"just bob" wrote in message
I’ve been doing everything on a laptop virtually forever but it’s time I have a nice desktop, too.

Plus I don’t want CS3 near my laptop until I’ve flushed it out!
I rarely work with files larger than 100MB, and never larger than 200MB, or whatever a 16MP Raw from a 1DsM2 becomes when you save it as PSD. I rent that camera when I need to but most of my work is with the 8.2MP 1D2.
I’m thinking of a Intel E6400 CPU with 4GB of RAM for Windows XP Pro.
I’d like firewire on the motherboard.

I want to run a two-monitor setup, of which currently I have only one monitor which support DVI.

So I need two PCI-Express video cards. Which ones? Is 256MB per card enough? If I ever plan on running Vista of course I would need 512MB per card to support Aero without shared memory.

Preferred motherboard brand is Asus but are there others you like?
I would pay up to $2000 for the right system.

I don’t mind building the system myself but is there anyone out there selling a computer like this right off the shelf?

Thanks!

4GB of RAM is going to be a waste. Photoshop will never use much above 2GB. The 3GB switch for ones doesn’t work for everyone. As for video card, most today support two monitors. I have a ati radeon 1650 with 512MB it has one DVI and regular port. So I don’t see why you need two cards unless you are heavily in to games and want to double the processing power. For dual monitors there are many options available using a single card. I do recommend at 512MB or RAM however. Plan for the future so you don’t have to upgrade in a year.

As for ASUS, tried them ones and had nothing but problems. I only buy Intel motherboards and processors now. Your mileage may very but right now Intel blows AMD out of the water speed wise with the Core2 Duo. For the best match of processor to motherboard I would go Intel and in fact I went Intel with a D975XBX2 motherboard and Core2 Processor, 2GB of paired RAM, 2 250GB Sata drives, 2 200GB IDE (I took these form my old system). Have been very happy.

The only thing I wouldn’t recommend is going to Vista until you have to. Meaning until something comes out software wise that requires Vista minimum (now XP support), this will be several years away if not longer. Vista has a lot to like, but it has something’s to not like as well.

I got the parts to build my new system (in March) and got it all for less than $1500. I build a new system once every 5 years. I don’t do upgrades in between, at least on the computer. I do add new external items like scanners, printers, etc. But the computer only gets upgraded every 5 years. So I buy with the future in mind. The future over the next 5 years unfortunately will not include good normal use of more than 2GB of RAM. 64-bit OSes while available lack 64-bit software and will for quite sometime because it is not a simple port of a 32-bit application to a 64-bit one, it is a total re-write from the ground up. Companies aren’t going to do that until they are sure it will pay off. 10 years is my guess.

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