Digital BW, The Print

I have pretty much sat back and just read this group an learned so much , but I have some input on this one :)  

if you decided to build a new computer look at the Asus A8V Deluxe mother board , the mother board is one of the most important aspects of the computer how upgradeable is your mother board always consider that. You can pop the other components in and out to upgrade most people scrimp on the mother board and spend there money on the processor. Then your stuck you can't upgrade!  my processor is the AMD Athlon64 Model 3200+ 2.0Ghz 512k Cache
(800MHz FSB) and I have a gig of duel channel memory for now. 

Hard drives,  your system does not have to be a huge hard drive so look at the Western Digital Raptor Hard Drive, Serial ATA, 36gb, 10k rpm, 8mb buffer , it is a fast puppy , then you can add  a couple of larger hard drives for your images and such I have 3 the faster one runs my system , that helps in my programs and the speed they process things then I have 2 300 gig one for images the other for video. I do video with adobe premiere

I still use Photoshop 7 but I have had Photoshop, fireworks, dreamweaver and several browsers open at one time with no signs of system slowdown.


Belle


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Scott Jones 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 5:27 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Do I need a new computer?


  Greetings:

  My current computer seems to not be handling PSCS2 and Bridge very 
  well with very long processing times and hang up's when running both 
  Bridge and PSCS2. I need to figure out whether to install more RAM 
  or get a new computer. Here are my specs:

  Dell Dimension 8200, Pentium 4 2.53Ghz, 512MB RDRAM (this is that 
  Rambus RAM that many don't use anymore), GeForce Ti4200 card with 
  DVI out, CRT monitor, 40GB drive, added by me 300GB second drive, 
  300GB external Maxtor 1 touch drive for backup, XP home.

  It looks like I can add a max of 1 GB more RDRAM for about $500 and 
  will need to flash my BIOS to make it work.

  The other option is to buy a new computer and just quickly searching 
  Dell for a 2GB RAM machine looks like about $1600 but would have a 
  new flat screen included. Perhaps it is also good to wait to buy a 
  new machine when all the new PC OS, 64 bit, and other enhancements 
  become prime time perhaps in the next year of so.

  My question is this: Will simply putting 1 GB more RAM (for a total 
  now of 1.5GB)help me out and is it silly to spend so much on a new 
  machine that I am not sure I need. My GOAL is to have PSCS2 and 
  Bridge working smoothly and quickly.

  Thanks for any advice you can give me...




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