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am buying anew computer currently have photoshop 7 running on an intel
celeron(ouch)..on a budget so was llloking at an amd athlon 2600..packed with memory and awesome graphics card. does anyone have this computer and how does your photoshop run. thank you in advance
Hmmm. I have something close, it’s an AMD 2800+ chip, with 1GB (1000 MB, whatever you fancy to call it) of fast RAM, and I have also switched to SATA hard drives this go round and built it up on an Asus A7N8V Deluxe motherboard. My video card is a GeForce FX 5600 Ultra (mainly for the gaming set, but is plenty powerful for image editing) and I can tell you that it *almost* runs PS 7 like regular old Windows Paint. Yes, that spritely. The new SATA drives are essentially a new incarnation of SCSI drives and are quite fast. I find that working with images up to 60MB in size is really not that big of a deal to this machine. Printing on the other hand, will not change. I use the Firewire connection from this computer to my Epson 2200 and it still takes time to print at SuperPhoto2880 quality settings…some things, a speedy computer will not help much. But when working with large images, things that used to take minutes or more on my older machine takes seconds now. Not instantaneous by any means, but you have no excuses to go fix a cup of coffe while it does anything except print.
