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Since Adobe's latest version of Photoshop came out, my dual PIII
motherboards are about as good as a PC XT. I need to upgrade to the fastest
configuration possible - without regards to price. I have been trying to
get presales information from Tyan/Fremont, CA - but since I'm not "Michael
Dell", I'm not getting any response from that department. (I have called
numerous times over the past 3 months and have left my number numerous
times.)
I need a fast hard disk subsystem, so I am assuming that I will be picking
up monster U320 SCSI drives and will need a motherboard with the U320
built-in...this is on recommendation from a Central Computer Salesperson who
said that having the U320 on the board, as opposed to plugged into the PCI
bus, that my speed would truly match the 320 as opposed to the 33/66/100MHz
PCI bus...sounds fishy and possibly a bit confused because the 320 stands
for MB/sec transfer rate and the PCI bus speed has to do with
transactions/second - can someone clear this up?
Also, I will be going with the latest PCIx graphics card since we currently
do tons of Photoshop work, but will also be going into video production
soon.
There is also a question about CPU and memory combinations that keeps
popping up. I need to know if it is advantageous to go with the fastest
memory a board can take, but plop in a "lower-end" Xeon or Opteron/Athlon64
chip that may not use the speed of that memory...I can see a problem if I
put in slower memory and a faster CPU - are there any charts that can help
in making the right choices?
I appreciate any help! Please post response to the board.
Since Adobe's latest version of Photoshop came out, my dual PIII
motherboards are about as good as a PC XT. I need to upgrade to the fastest
configuration possible - without regards to price. I have been trying to
get presales information from Tyan/Fremont, CA - but since I'm not "Michael
Dell", I'm not getting any response from that department. (I have called
numerous times over the past 3 months and have left my number numerous
times.)
I need a fast hard disk subsystem, so I am assuming that I will be picking
up monster U320 SCSI drives and will need a motherboard with the U320
built-in...this is on recommendation from a Central Computer Salesperson who
said that having the U320 on the board, as opposed to plugged into the PCI
bus, that my speed would truly match the 320 as opposed to the 33/66/100MHz
PCI bus...sounds fishy and possibly a bit confused because the 320 stands
for MB/sec transfer rate and the PCI bus speed has to do with
transactions/second - can someone clear this up?
Also, I will be going with the latest PCIx graphics card since we currently
do tons of Photoshop work, but will also be going into video production
soon.
There is also a question about CPU and memory combinations that keeps
popping up. I need to know if it is advantageous to go with the fastest
memory a board can take, but plop in a "lower-end" Xeon or Opteron/Athlon64
chip that may not use the speed of that memory...I can see a problem if I
put in slower memory and a faster CPU - are there any charts that can help
in making the right choices?
I appreciate any help! Please post response to the board.