Soldato
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As above. Just wondering it it uses more ram and CPU or graphics card?
Sorry if that's a stupid question lol
Thanks
Sorry if that's a stupid question lol
Thanks
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Do art program's like Cs5 require good graphics cards?
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CS5..all of the above, it likes multi core cpus, RAM, but it also likes fast graphics cards...
It has support for nVidia's GeForce cards like the GTX460 and GTX 560 series...and some plugins ahve support for nVidia's CUDA extensions, and this speeds up the application of filters tremendously.
Just to illustrate how much it speeds things up, go have a look here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/adobe-cs5-cuda-64-bit,2770-8.html
It has support for nVidia's GeForce cards like the GTX460 and GTX 560 series...and some plugins ahve support for nVidia's CUDA extensions, and this speeds up the application of filters tremendously.
Just to illustrate how much it speeds things up, go have a look here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/adobe-cs5-cuda-64-bit,2770-8.html
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If your not using advance 3rd party filters you won't see that much benefit, that benchmark was an extreme test. 
Some processes are helped by multiple cores and HT, you'll only get a real benefit if using large files or batch processing lots of files.
Most of the performance gains with multiple cores, Hyper-Threading & CUDA are for the video packages part of CS5. If you work with After Effects, Premiere Pro & Media Encoder. A compatible CUDA card and 4 core with HT (or better) is ideal.
Illustrator and InDesign are bound to 1 core and get no benefit from CUDA as far as I can tell. I suspect the same is true of the web design CS5 apps too.
Some processes are helped by multiple cores and HT, you'll only get a real benefit if using large files or batch processing lots of files.Most of the performance gains with multiple cores, Hyper-Threading & CUDA are for the video packages part of CS5. If you work with After Effects, Premiere Pro & Media Encoder. A compatible CUDA card and 4 core with HT (or better) is ideal.
Illustrator and InDesign are bound to 1 core and get no benefit from CUDA as far as I can tell. I suspect the same is true of the web design CS5 apps too.
Using CS4, I went from a dual core Phenom II 550 to a Quad core 955, made a big diff on the appication of filters such as gaussian blur which I use a lot...
I jumped from 4GB to 8GB RAM, this improved image handling especially where I have lots of layers.
Moved to a hex core X6 1100T and that was a big step up again in terms of filters (there's a lot of maths in there) also sped up load times.
Going from a Radeon 4850 to a nvidia GTX560 has made the whole setup smoother again...it's not a chore to move stuff around anymore.
I also use Lightroom, and the hex core cpu made a big difference, Im working with RAW files, applying my custom image settings and exporting on a batch basis is much improved.
If I was going to upgrade, in order of preference, I'd go RAM (64-bit OS for more than 4GB support), CPU (more cores not faster) then Video - thats based on my use working with 2D images.
I jumped from 4GB to 8GB RAM, this improved image handling especially where I have lots of layers.
Moved to a hex core X6 1100T and that was a big step up again in terms of filters (there's a lot of maths in there) also sped up load times.
Going from a Radeon 4850 to a nvidia GTX560 has made the whole setup smoother again...it's not a chore to move stuff around anymore.
I also use Lightroom, and the hex core cpu made a big difference, Im working with RAW files, applying my custom image settings and exporting on a batch basis is much improved.
If I was going to upgrade, in order of preference, I'd go RAM (64-bit OS for more than 4GB support), CPU (more cores not faster) then Video - thats based on my use working with 2D images.
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I use CS5.1 and it loves a nice GPU. my old 8800gt wouldn't cut the mustard but it did for gaming, upgraded to a 5770 last year and all my games and now PS works nicely.