Elec
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I agree with most of what you've said, although I dunno that good advice will necessarily be given at an overclocking forum. I've been a member at HardOCP since about '98 and I can tell you that they are the same way with computers that we are with headphone gear. Which is to say that they will tell you tighter memory timings or dual channel make on OMG huge unbelievable world-changing difference. Kinda like buying a fancy power cord or interconnect or iso-blocks will make an OMG huge unbelievable world-changing difference. There may be improvent but not to that degree. It's hyperbole.
The fact is, the original poster has a pretty decent system already. If current performance is not satisfactory, there's only so much that can be done. For Photoshop and other 2D work, I still say that what would make a difference are things like a faster CPU, multiple CPUs (or a multi-core CPU) but only if the software makes use of multiple CPUs, more RAM - although 2 gig is already a lot for general use, up to 4 gig COULD be helpful depending on the specifics of the work (like manipulating really huge files), and a faster disk storage subsystem - probably a RAID array. None of these options are especially cheap, so I guess I'd encourage thinking about how much better performance is worth it to you. If it's your job and can be written off as a business expense or you find yourself waiting instead of working, it may be worth the money. If you're more like "Eh, I suspect things could be faster than they are now...", it may not be.
| Originally Posted by Hey_Its_Cole Really dont waste your money on tccd or BH5, overclocking ram shows little real world gain, you will notice a diiference with dual channel ram but not worth droping a gig of what you have. Post your system specs and I will go from there. I disagree on upgrading your cpu, it is pretty fast allready. For graphics rendering for 2d, ram is what really makes the difference mainly with quantity, I suggest you join the forum I suggested and make the same thread there that you made here. There are people there that know what is best for this kind of thing. Computers are my main hobby but I spend my efforts on gaming so my real world experience is not there for your needs. I am seeing a lot of not so good advice in this thread and they will not mis guide you there. Any ill advice posted there gets shot down very quickly. [Ak]Zip is a active member there as well. If you have aim feel free to im me specific questions, my SN is BoleCailey about how to overclock in bios etc. I have the following but I dont do much photoshop stuff. AMD dual core 4400 x2 Nvidia XFX Gforce 7800gt 2 x 1 gig of nothing special G skill ram 2 gigs total Epox 9npa+ sli motherboard Maxter 200 gig sata 16mb cache hardrive And $400 or so dollars worth of water cooling crap. |
I agree with most of what you've said, although I dunno that good advice will necessarily be given at an overclocking forum. I've been a member at HardOCP since about '98 and I can tell you that they are the same way with computers that we are with headphone gear. Which is to say that they will tell you tighter memory timings or dual channel make on OMG huge unbelievable world-changing difference. Kinda like buying a fancy power cord or interconnect or iso-blocks will make an OMG huge unbelievable world-changing difference. There may be improvent but not to that degree. It's hyperbole.
The fact is, the original poster has a pretty decent system already. If current performance is not satisfactory, there's only so much that can be done. For Photoshop and other 2D work, I still say that what would make a difference are things like a faster CPU, multiple CPUs (or a multi-core CPU) but only if the software makes use of multiple CPUs, more RAM - although 2 gig is already a lot for general use, up to 4 gig COULD be helpful depending on the specifics of the work (like manipulating really huge files), and a faster disk storage subsystem - probably a RAID array. None of these options are especially cheap, so I guess I'd encourage thinking about how much better performance is worth it to you. If it's your job and can be written off as a business expense or you find yourself waiting instead of working, it may be worth the money. If you're more like "Eh, I suspect things could be faster than they are now...", it may not be.
