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I reckon I'll be good with that beefy processor and 6GB of RAM for now to be honest - and if I need to upgrade, it'll probably be as cheap as chips soon.
PC upgrade time. Advice, tips, great deals please!
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Well OK, but I'll remind you of the economics of that. You'll paying triple when you do, because you'll be losing 3Gb ram and buying 3Gb ram in another format to replace the 3Gb you just took out and then paying on top of that for the upgrade.
You'll have 3Gb you'll have no use for?
You'll have 3Gb you'll have no use for?
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It's a minor pain, but I'll just give it away like I have done in the past.
It's not like it's going to cost me a fortune in a year's time or whatever!
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I've only got as far as taking out of the box! It's a nice compact size and the build quality looks good too.
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I'm busy working on other stuff, but I've set it up and had a quick play with the new machine. First impressions are all positive: Vista is ridiculously slick and I was connected to the web in seconds right at the start, easy peasy.
I've not had chance to put it through it paces but just browsing the web it feels very fast. IE7 unexpectedly impressed me (it displays the boards better than Firefox) and Foxmarks proved its worth, quickly ttansferring over all my Firefox passwords and bookmarks. Nice.
It's pretty quiet too.
I've not had chance to put it through it paces but just browsing the web it feels very fast. IE7 unexpectedly impressed me (it displays the boards better than Firefox) and Foxmarks proved its worth, quickly ttansferring over all my Firefox passwords and bookmarks. Nice.
It's pretty quiet too.
As long as it's a 4850, you should be fine for games.
I've not really seen any comments on your business graphics requirements. I wonder if an OpenGL card would be more appropriate than a gaming card. What do you use other than Photoshop?
The Nvidia Quadro cards start at slightly over £100. Might be worth at test. And on your motherboard, you can SLI them. I'm not sure it's possible, but you might be able to have both the Nvidia and the ATI going at the same time. 3 monitors - 2 off the Nvidia and one off the ATI, and you set the ATI as the primary DirectX monitor for games.
Also, what analysis have you done to determine where the bottleneck lies? Simply putting up Task Manager on one monitor can be very revealing. Performance Monitor is also incredibly useful.
Your most likely bottleneck is memory. Photoshop loves memory. If so, upgrade to 8 GB and Vista 64. And if you're still not satisfied at the end of it, you'll still have a very useful reserve machine.
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Not yet - I've only started moving over programs. It's weird: XP feels like something out of the stone age in comparison to Vista!
You've come in a bit late to this thread - I've already bought my Vista64 machine (see above)!
The graphics card is an ATI PowerColor HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E Graphics Card, so I'll swap that over shortly.
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I need one that supports two monitors though
ohmyliver
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True, but cs4 (not sure about earlier) uses your gpu to give added OpenGL goodness
(http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb404898#intro)
Hah! Sounds just typical for me. But I stand by my comments about the graphics card. You may benefit more from a business graphics card than from a games graphics card.
