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I’m going to buiild a computer to run CS and ancillary software.
I will use the computer with a scanner to make 16 bit files from 6×7 and 4×5 negatives. A 48 bit scan at 4800 ppi of a 4×5 colour negative is 2.25 GB.
I will make big prints on an Epson 9600 printer. Like 40×50 prints.. Hence the seriously huge files.
Here’s what I’ve selected so far:
Win2000
Pentium 4, 3.2GHZ, 800MHz FSB. socket 478, 1MB cache
Kingston PC3200 DDR DIMM Memory — Initial installation 4GB, with capacity to add more.
Western Digital WD Raptor serial ATA drives for C and D (scratch) drives
a pretty big 7200 Western Digital drive for storage space.
I’d appreciate informed opinions about the componants I’ve selected, and most especially I need recommendations for a motherboard.
All the Intel boards I look at support a maximum of 4GB of memory. That is enough, I hope, for my present needs but I assume that file size will increase in the future. It always has.
So I need a motherboard that’ll support the componants I’ve selected and allow for significant memory expansion.
Suggestions most appreciated.
Thanks,
Larry Jones
I will use the computer with a scanner to make 16 bit files from 6×7 and 4×5 negatives. A 48 bit scan at 4800 ppi of a 4×5 colour negative is 2.25 GB.
I will make big prints on an Epson 9600 printer. Like 40×50 prints.. Hence the seriously huge files.
Here’s what I’ve selected so far:
Win2000
Pentium 4, 3.2GHZ, 800MHz FSB. socket 478, 1MB cache
Kingston PC3200 DDR DIMM Memory — Initial installation 4GB, with capacity to add more.
Western Digital WD Raptor serial ATA drives for C and D (scratch) drives
a pretty big 7200 Western Digital drive for storage space.
I’d appreciate informed opinions about the componants I’ve selected, and most especially I need recommendations for a motherboard.
All the Intel boards I look at support a maximum of 4GB of memory. That is enough, I hope, for my present needs but I assume that file size will increase in the future. It always has.
So I need a motherboard that’ll support the componants I’ve selected and allow for significant memory expansion.
Suggestions most appreciated.
Thanks,
Larry Jones
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