Thanks lads
Can you RAID any hard disks or do you have to buy special ones to allow you to go down this avenue?
Originally Posted by
pa_sjo
I'd go for Vista 64-bit... Might as well get 8GB in there
Get the Q9300, or Q9450 if your budget allows.. the 45nm processors run cool and use less power than the slightly older 65nm ones.
If you're storing your files locally on the computer, might not be a bad idea to have to disks in RAID0 (striped) for the performance increase that gives you. (get like two 250's or whatever you want)..
What about the older software conflicting with Vista 64 bit , or the driver problems?
To be honest i dont really want to be spending over £700 so going for a step up in the processor department isnt really an option.
Originally Posted by
Turbocabbie
I have a MSI KT8 Master 2 far with dual AMD's (two processors, not dual core sharing the same memory bus) running 4gb of memory on the mobo, a gigabyte iram drive with 4gb on it with ubuntu Linux running crossover office and photoshop, and a gigabyte iram drive with 4gb on it for the swap file. Storage is raid 5 scsi raptors.
I have no problems with photoshop files and large raw images, simply not an issue
How much would this kind of setup cost with... a) a SATA hard disk? b) scsi hard disks?