[Techtalk] digital photo editing hardware

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 09 December 2007 1:17:24 pm Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
> Carla Schroder wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > My main workstation has an AMD Sempron 3000 + I GB RAM, and I have been 
happy 
> > with it. Until now, that is, since I started doing some heavy-duty digital 
> > photo management and editing.

<snip> 

> >   
> Whether you go AMD or Intel, in both cases you will have to get a new 
> MB, as i do not expect your current to have an AM2 slot.
> I would take 2G of RAM, as memory does not seem the bottleneck, and this 
> should give you space enough to play.
> 
>  From tests it seems that the current Core2Duo Extreme is slightly 
> better then the AMD X2. On the other hand, the AMD is cheaper and seems 
> to run on lower power as well. When you go to quad cores the AMD is 
> clearly cheaper. I have not been following quad core reviews though....
> 
> All in all, whatever you choose you will find a significant improvement.
> 
> My main test machine is a AMD X2 4600 at the moment. Since i bought it a 
> number of faster procs have come out :(
> 
> Its doing quit nicely what i got it for though, which was to have a good 
> setup - though not totally high end - to be able to test h.264 realtime 
> decoding :)
> 
> Cheers,

OK, so since it will make a difference I'll warm up the credit card and go 
shopping. Yay! My CPU and mobo are pretty low-budget. They were a good buy at 
the time I bought them and were a big step up from what I had before. I'd 
still be happy with them if I didn't have this new image editing addiction!

Carla
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