Hi guys,
May be a silly question but does anyone know of a forum that is related to Photoshop and graphics in general, that also have some good knowledge regarding the hardware.
On hardware sites like this, people have great knowledge about hardware, overclocking and gaming. And on the graphics and photography sites they have great knowledge regarding their area of expertise. However, both graphics and photography is becoming so computerized that the boundries are overlapping. So with all respect to all, does anyone know of a good site, thanks very much
Henrik
PS: While I am at, I may as well as a question regarding hardware and test the waters here ;-)
I am in need of a new workstation for photo-editing retouching and manipulation. Now, I currently have a Dual Opteron 250, 8Gb Ram and 8 or so SCSI disks from 36 to 300Gb 15k and 10k drives, two Quadro FX3400 in a Chenbro 107 with SCA scsi hotswap Tyan S2895 mainboard. which is a great little unit. but It is beginning to feel slow, when working on 500mb to 2Gb files.
I was thinking of getting a new Tyan board S2915 with dual 2220 processor and 8-16Gb of ram. (AMD so I can swap the CPUS to Quad next year)...this is an expensive option and may not offer much over my current setup, I am also thinking of getting a pair of 285s to replace my 250.
I have also been reading alot about the new C2D cpus and they seem very fast.
which of these CPU's build into a system would give me the best performance. I will not be overclocking I won't be playing any games, this will be a working machine.
what is the consensus here, photoshop work is very memory intensive and it loves lots of ram.
what would be the best setup for what i want to do.
thanks very much
henrik
May be a silly question but does anyone know of a forum that is related to Photoshop and graphics in general, that also have some good knowledge regarding the hardware.
On hardware sites like this, people have great knowledge about hardware, overclocking and gaming. And on the graphics and photography sites they have great knowledge regarding their area of expertise. However, both graphics and photography is becoming so computerized that the boundries are overlapping. So with all respect to all, does anyone know of a good site, thanks very much
Henrik
PS: While I am at, I may as well as a question regarding hardware and test the waters here ;-)
I am in need of a new workstation for photo-editing retouching and manipulation. Now, I currently have a Dual Opteron 250, 8Gb Ram and 8 or so SCSI disks from 36 to 300Gb 15k and 10k drives, two Quadro FX3400 in a Chenbro 107 with SCA scsi hotswap Tyan S2895 mainboard. which is a great little unit. but It is beginning to feel slow, when working on 500mb to 2Gb files.
I was thinking of getting a new Tyan board S2915 with dual 2220 processor and 8-16Gb of ram. (AMD so I can swap the CPUS to Quad next year)...this is an expensive option and may not offer much over my current setup, I am also thinking of getting a pair of 285s to replace my 250.
I have also been reading alot about the new C2D cpus and they seem very fast.
which of these CPU's build into a system would give me the best performance. I will not be overclocking I won't be playing any games, this will be a working machine.
what is the consensus here, photoshop work is very memory intensive and it loves lots of ram.
what would be the best setup for what i want to do.
thanks very much
henrik