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a few years ago i built machines for some photographers who were using photoshop-7
the machines were amd’s in the 1 – 2 ghz range
and 1 gig of ram…
some of the folks were using very large images with many layers… and the file size was up in the 100 meg range or more.
in general , all was working well.
now they have upgraded to photoshop CS2
and have noticed occasional "freeze-ups" and even had a crash or two. this seems to be mostly when keeping the "thumb-nail" browser open while editing.
my first thought was to add even more ram…
but then i checked the system performance and noticed very heavy cpu usage…
40%..peaking to 98%
it looks like it may be time to phase these folks into newer machines… but i’m wondering if i should go with the pentium-4 or the AMD 64 bit cpu.
any ideas on what’s best?
also…any tips on keeping their present machines running for another year or so?
the machines were amd’s in the 1 – 2 ghz range
and 1 gig of ram…
some of the folks were using very large images with many layers… and the file size was up in the 100 meg range or more.
in general , all was working well.
now they have upgraded to photoshop CS2
and have noticed occasional "freeze-ups" and even had a crash or two. this seems to be mostly when keeping the "thumb-nail" browser open while editing.
my first thought was to add even more ram…
but then i checked the system performance and noticed very heavy cpu usage…
40%..peaking to 98%
it looks like it may be time to phase these folks into newer machines… but i’m wondering if i should go with the pentium-4 or the AMD 64 bit cpu.
any ideas on what’s best?
also…any tips on keeping their present machines running for another year or so?
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