Digital BW, The Print

I was about to suggest getting _more_ than 1GB of RAM, especially if you're 
working with MF scans at all.  I'm scanning at only 24bit with Epson 3200's 
at work (which is why I scan at 24 bit, since 48bit, 3200 dpi scans are too 
big for me to be dealing with at this point), and when I eventually get 
these home and edit these on my home machine, the various edits take a long 
time.  Even cropping can take several minutes.  I am using 1GB of DDR 2700 
RAM, on an Athlon 2700+.  Scratch disk is a separate physical disk.

allan

At 10:46 AM 8/16/2004, you wrote:

>A friend and I just built a machine with these specs and it screams:
>
>P4 / 3.2
>2 GB Dual 3200 Ram
>Gigabyte/Radeon R9800 XT Graphics Accelerator
>Asus P4P800E-DeLuxe (Ticky about  the memory it uses)
>3-15,000 RPM 17 GB SCSI HDD (One for C-Drive, One for work-in-progress, One
>dedicated PS scratch disk)
>1-250 SATA 250 GB HDD for storage
>
>The neat thing about SCSI is that they operate off a SCSI card independent
>of the processor. All the processor does is send an instrucition to the SCSI
>(or that's how I understand it). The machine is blazingly fast. The SCSI
>drives are reconditioned and cost $85 each and work fine. I also set up dual
>LaCie Electron 19 Blue IV monitors, refurbished for about half price. I can
>run resource intensive PS operations on 600 dpi, 16 bit files and it does
>not bog down. XP Pro, (Legal OEM version).
>Kindest regards,
>Joe
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Clayton Jones [mailto:cj@...]
>   Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 12:20 PM
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>   Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Ideal Windows computer spec
>
>
>   >what would be an  ideal spec for a fast Windows machine.
>
>   Get the fastest CPU, the most RAM (at least 512), and the biggest HDD
>   you can afford.
>
>
>   Regards,
>   Clayton
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