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    What do you think is most important in photoshop?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Thomas, Sep 10, 2007.

  1. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    RAM
    OR
    Proc
    & how well will my system(in sig) run it?
     
    Thomas, Sep 10, 2007
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    Crimsonman Ex NBR member :cry:

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    processor depending on how many processes running at once. but 512 mb and 2 gb for me had very little difference
     
    Crimsonman, Sep 10, 2007
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  3. grateful

    grateful Notebook Evangelist

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    both can be significant, but a third might be to incorporate the video card..........I believe ram to be ""nearly"" as significant as the processor, but not quite with photoshop intensive situations, unless you have below a 1.8ghz dual core
     
    grateful, Sep 10, 2007
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    liyang6688 Notebook Guru

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    cpu is quite important ,and ram base 512 in windows xp.
    my cpu is P4 2.4b and right now use at the spid of 3.0.
    but i find it hard to deal with big jpg.if the picture is more than 4MB,I will wait for long time for the process.
     
    liyang6688, Sep 10, 2007
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    Elements can do most of what Creative Suite can do for less money and fewer resources.

    How deep into this are you intending to get?
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 10, 2007
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    Video card does nothing for photoshop, only 3d apps.
     
    Tailic, Sep 10, 2007
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    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 10, 2007
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    1GB ram should be good for pictures.
    For 3D stuff, more ram would be better and same for the CPU
     
    allan_huang, Sep 10, 2007
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    To respond to the original question, I ran Photoshop CS2 on a Dell Inspiron 5100 with 1GB and XP Pro, but it runs much better on my HP Pavilion DV6000 with 2GB and Vista Home Premium.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 10, 2007
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    RAM. Especially if you're working with large images. A faster CPU will only help if you have a ton of very complex filters, which most graphic designers rarely use. I always recommend more RAM when someone's looking for a performance upgrade... their CPU is pretty much never the bottleneck. More RAM and a faster hard drive will give you a better performance improvement.
     
    Pitabred, Sep 10, 2007
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