"Fruit2O" wrote in message
1 GHz hard drive?
Thank you – I guess, until I get a newer PC, I’m out of luck.
Yup, looks that way;(
I use a laptop to show what is what "on the road" as it were and use a desktop for the serious stuff. The upside being, you can put together a serious desktop for running PS for around half the price of an equivalent laptop.
regards
Mike H
BTW, I meant to say 1GHz processor. Next summer, I want to build my "serious" desktop. Can you give me some recommendations? I’ve never done this before. How is yours configured? Thanks.
Mine’s a two year old ;( AMD 2.2GHz processor with 1GB Ram on a Gigabyte M/B. and an old 128 Matrox card.
It is housed in a large tower case contaning two optical drives, one of which is a DvD burner.
It also houses two removable harddrive caddies (only one in service as master at any one time) with the OS of choice
installed on each, (Maxtor 120GB) all my apps, internet etc., is installed on one. The other only has PS on it.(no internet, therefore no anti virus etc., running in the background, slowing things down, I "slave" this drive once a week and check it with the other drive’s AV systems) and no problems found in the two years I have been using this setup. This wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste, but it’s worked for me. The PC also has two internal hard drives (Maxtor 80GB) used for scratch and storage etc. I will replace the MB and processor when one or the other fall over (if I can justify the cost ;)) I shoot in RAW and save file this plus any PSD and any JPG that I save from it and save them onto CD. I view it all on a 19" EIZO crt monitor.
Your question is one that pops up frequently in the Adobeforums (the dudes you read in this NG, but who cannot see posts to this NG), below is an answer to a recent one,
" quote; As the others have said, the choices you have are many and much is driven by budget, planned use, etc. True, you can search the forum, but, as a quick rundown for something not too terribly expensive, I’d suggest something like the following, using approximate Newegg prices:
MB – Asus P5B-E, supports RAID and up to 8GB DDR2-800 memory @ $155 CPU – Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 (2.4GHz with 4MB cache) @ $315 DDRAM – Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-6400C4, 2GB dual channel kit @ $300
Video Card – XFX Geforce 6800XT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card @ $135 (or most any card in this price range, letting outputs guide your choice…dual DVI?…DVI+Analog?…etc.) You don’t need the latest, greatest for PS support. 256MB should be more than enough video memory for PS use, even with dual monitors.
Sound Card? – Motherboard has built-in audio which may more than suffice for your needs.
Wireless? – None on motherboard, but under $100 to add via PCI expansion.
Ethernet? – Motherboard has it
Hard Drives – How much space do you really need? RAID option provided by motherboard but not essential, and you could save about $20 if you left off RAID support and went with ASUS P5B rather than the "-E" version. Two good fast hard drives are recommended, but you might even consider three. Western Digital Raptors have perhaps the best performance but run hotter and are only available up to 150GB. Many choices, but I’ll suggest 3 x 320GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0GB/s hard drives at $95 each…. $285
Optical Drives – A pair of DVD burners although one may be enough. LG 16X DVD
