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    What's the most important factor for Photo Editing, 3D Editing?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ahson, Sep 16, 2007.

  1. ahson

    ahson Notebook Enthusiast

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    What's the most important thing to determine the performance when doing Photo Editing + some 3D Editing on a notebook?


    A dedicated graphics card (not the onboard video) is more important or a fast CPU and RAM are more important??
     
    ahson, Sep 16, 2007
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    jihoon Notebook Evangelist

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    Ram - if you have big files, or several programs/files open at once.
    CPU - faster rendering
    HD - faster HD - loads files faster, saves faster..
    GPU - won't help much with 2D editing... will help with 3D rendering. But remember, that 3D games take up a whole lot of processing power, that 3D editing doesn't exactly need.
     
    jihoon, Sep 16, 2007
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  3. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    CPU and RAM are the two factors you should consider if you use Photoshop. Get at least 1 GB of RAM, 2 GB preferably if you want to run Photoshop. Any Core 2 Duo processor will be enough to run Photoshop well.

    Graphics will help in 3D rendering, also a faster hard drive will help in video editing if you do that.
     
    Sam, Sep 16, 2007
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    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    For 3D rendering, a gpu is very important. But outside of gaming, not many people require 3D rendering. Just remember, videos are not 3D. They may look that way to you, but to the computer, it's just a very fast slideshow.
     
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    Like Sam and Lithus say.
     
    Phil, Sep 16, 2007
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