4.997 seconds with:
4.5GHz i5 2500K
8GB XMS3 @ 9-9-9-24T
MSI P67A-G45-B3
Photoshop CS5 x64
Win7 x64
I am absolutely gobsmacked how this chip eats Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 for breakfast!
An i5?
What do you expect the i7 to do?
58 seconds on my work PC, a P4 3.2 with 1GB of Ram running windows 7! and they expect me to work on this thing?!!!!
Can't wait to try it later on my i5!
CS3
Vista 64
Q6600 @ 3.6ghz
400mhz FSB
4-4-4-12 Corsair xms2 pc6400, all running sync
7.71 seconds with slow reactions![]()
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz
Asus P8P67 LE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
and a samsung ssd are gonna be replacing the q6600 this weekGet the clock speed up to 4+ghz and see if i can dip below 5s.
Only 4GB? Cmon man, strap on a pair and get 16 in there!![]()
Answer to that is very fastMany people out there still complain that Photoshop CS and CS2 are too slow at applying adjustments on large images, some say 7 is faster all round - maybe this is true, maybe CS and CS2 favour newer processors who knows!
Here's a small test to try (unashamed to steal this from a hardware forum)
Download This Photo and follow the below steps after loading it in your Photoshop version.
Have a stopwatch handy to see how long it takes
I got 37secs using a x2 4200+ 2.2ghz/core on CS2 (2gb ram)