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Hi there,
I’m about to purchase a full license of CS3 after trialing it for a while but before I do I want to upgrade my home PC to make it better suited for PS.
I’m currently running the following;
AMD Athlon 64 2800+
2GB of Geil RAM DDR400
Asus KN8-E Deluxe
Asus ATI Radeon 9600XT 128MB
The storage setup I have comprises 2 x 36GB WD Raptors running in RAID0 for the system/boot drive and 2 x 500GB Samsung SATAII Drives running in RAID1 for data. I have a spare 160GB SATA drive that I would have run as a photoshop scratch disk however my current motherboard doesn’t allow the mixing of RAID and non-RAID drives on the same controller.
I’m thinking of upgrading to the following;
Core2 Duo Q6600
Asus P5K Deluxe
GeIL 4GB (4x1GB) PC8500C5 1066MHz Black Dragon DDR2
Saphire ATI Radeon HD2600 Pro 512MB
What do you think about the above setup for a Photoshop machine? Does this seem like a reasonable spec to upgrade to for PS CS3?
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Regards,
JasonB
I’m about to purchase a full license of CS3 after trialing it for a while but before I do I want to upgrade my home PC to make it better suited for PS.
I’m currently running the following;
AMD Athlon 64 2800+
2GB of Geil RAM DDR400
Asus KN8-E Deluxe
Asus ATI Radeon 9600XT 128MB
The storage setup I have comprises 2 x 36GB WD Raptors running in RAID0 for the system/boot drive and 2 x 500GB Samsung SATAII Drives running in RAID1 for data. I have a spare 160GB SATA drive that I would have run as a photoshop scratch disk however my current motherboard doesn’t allow the mixing of RAID and non-RAID drives on the same controller.
I’m thinking of upgrading to the following;
Core2 Duo Q6600
Asus P5K Deluxe
GeIL 4GB (4x1GB) PC8500C5 1066MHz Black Dragon DDR2
Saphire ATI Radeon HD2600 Pro 512MB
What do you think about the above setup for a Photoshop machine? Does this seem like a reasonable spec to upgrade to for PS CS3?
—
Regards,
JasonB
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