Just trying my luck to see if any IT gurus can give comments:
A friend of mine has recommended me a couple of systems to buy for PURE work purposes, which means, almost literally, the computer will be used to hold the O/S (which i guess is winXP, i dunno if i wanna try 64bit system, and does PS even support 64bit?), photoshop, a couple of RAW convertors (NC4, Bibble, C1 etc) and WIP (work-in-progress) image files. archiving of images will be done on another PC and/or external HDD, so essentially this new PC might have a super fast HD system, but not necessarily very big. perhaps somewhere along the lines of 60gb is enuff just for working. or i could save money and just use normal 7200rpm hdd.. that one still KIV.
so the decision basically is on processors. he has proposed dual Xeon 2.4Ghz, or one Xeon 3.2GHz couple with an intel m/b (dunno wat model), and able to get the stock by mid jan. apparently this m/b also supports SCSI, so i guess if i really wanna blow the bank, i'll be able to use a SCSI drive.
i'm not an IT person, so i'm kinda lost, except for wat i read online and hear from pple who are supposed to be in the know. my understanding is that dual processors rock for multitasking, but if i'm just gonna be using only one programme at a time, say photoshop, and nothing else is running in the background (except the O/S of course!), then would the dual processor be a little redundant? can PS use BOTH processors for the same function (say the age old test, using zoom blur which usuall takes ages for a large image)?
and besides the processor, he recommended that 1gb ddr ecc RAM should be enuff. I'm still tempted to get 2gb in total...
and the last question is, why is XEON better for such work? would a XEON 3.2 run much faster than a p4 3.2? is it a significant difference?
basically i wanna build a pure workhorse. this system will not even be online, the most it gets to "go out" is to access files from another PC thru LAN. it's a no nonsense computer where i won't have msn windows popping up to distract me! :bsmilie:
any idea how much something like this would cost? he's given me a rough estimate, but since i'm not confirmed i told him no need to calculate until so accurate.
and also a last point if any of u wanna add, BESIDES A MAC, wat's the ultimate PC for image editing. i do NO VIDEO at all. oh.. well maybe the odd photo video montage for customers... but that's not a priority at all.
Thanx all for reading.. machiam very long-winded post.. :sweat:
A friend of mine has recommended me a couple of systems to buy for PURE work purposes, which means, almost literally, the computer will be used to hold the O/S (which i guess is winXP, i dunno if i wanna try 64bit system, and does PS even support 64bit?), photoshop, a couple of RAW convertors (NC4, Bibble, C1 etc) and WIP (work-in-progress) image files. archiving of images will be done on another PC and/or external HDD, so essentially this new PC might have a super fast HD system, but not necessarily very big. perhaps somewhere along the lines of 60gb is enuff just for working. or i could save money and just use normal 7200rpm hdd.. that one still KIV.
so the decision basically is on processors. he has proposed dual Xeon 2.4Ghz, or one Xeon 3.2GHz couple with an intel m/b (dunno wat model), and able to get the stock by mid jan. apparently this m/b also supports SCSI, so i guess if i really wanna blow the bank, i'll be able to use a SCSI drive.
i'm not an IT person, so i'm kinda lost, except for wat i read online and hear from pple who are supposed to be in the know. my understanding is that dual processors rock for multitasking, but if i'm just gonna be using only one programme at a time, say photoshop, and nothing else is running in the background (except the O/S of course!), then would the dual processor be a little redundant? can PS use BOTH processors for the same function (say the age old test, using zoom blur which usuall takes ages for a large image)?
and besides the processor, he recommended that 1gb ddr ecc RAM should be enuff. I'm still tempted to get 2gb in total...
and the last question is, why is XEON better for such work? would a XEON 3.2 run much faster than a p4 3.2? is it a significant difference?
basically i wanna build a pure workhorse. this system will not even be online, the most it gets to "go out" is to access files from another PC thru LAN. it's a no nonsense computer where i won't have msn windows popping up to distract me! :bsmilie:
any idea how much something like this would cost? he's given me a rough estimate, but since i'm not confirmed i told him no need to calculate until so accurate.
and also a last point if any of u wanna add, BESIDES A MAC, wat's the ultimate PC for image editing. i do NO VIDEO at all. oh.. well maybe the odd photo video montage for customers... but that's not a priority at all.
Thanx all for reading.. machiam very long-winded post.. :sweat:
