Processing images....... What's your pc spec?

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I just wanted to ask what's your pc spec for processing images? I'm in the market for a new pc and I was wondering what most people on here are using. I'm finding that a 2.00Gig Athlon and 1 Gig of ram can struggle a bit with 5D files especially when I have a few layers open and the file sizes get kinda big
 
I have a 2ghz 64bit AMD thing with 1gb of RAM and thats fine with my 10D/30D images. I also have a 1.8ghz Macbook Pro with 2gb RAM which is sluggish at times due to a lack of universal binaries from Adobe. I have no doubts that with CS3 it'll fly.
 
I'm using a stock 3700 SD, 1GB of fast ram and 800xt 256mb graphics card, 7200.10 seagate hard drives.

Its fast enough for me at the moment... I think even the latest computers will struggle with photoshop and lots of layers, I wouldnt worry to much unless it really is making the work unbearable...
 
Well im working in RAW & Jpg / Tiff

AMD 64Bit x2 4400+ (32bit OS)
3Gig Ram
ATi 1800 PRO XT

Im finding it very rapid

Portable machine is a G4 Apple 17" Powerbook 1.67Ghz 1Gig Ram 9700 Pro
That can show some lack in power when it comes to batch work
 
Dual Opteron 265 (dual core) with 4Gb ram goodness :)

Which is good, because I can process a bunch of raw files, do my panorama processing and muck around in photoshop all at the same time. Fabulous :)

However, I've not got it for image editing alone - it is a *touch* overkill for just those purposes.

The one thing I would say is that according to Adobe, when you run it on x64, it can use as much memory as you have in the system - which could be way more than 4GB if you're so inclined. On a x86 system, it's limited by the 4Gb total virtual address space per process, of which 2Gb is for the process (other 2Gb is for the kernel). So if you want to do any image editing/transformations that need more than 2Gb memory to complete (talking seriously big stuff here) then you probably want a 64bit system.
 
Currently....

Opteron 170 *Dual core jobbie* @2.6ghz
4gb Ram
Multiple hard drives fro 80gb > 320gb
ATI X1800XT
ATI 7200 AIW PCI

Windows XP64

2 x Sony GDMW900 - 24" 16:10 Widescreen CRT's
1x IBM P260 21" CRT

Or my laptop.

P4 *Desktop Prescott* @ 3.33ghz HOT HOT HOT
2gb ram
80gb 7200 Laptop drive
ATI 9700 Mobility
15.4" widescreen
Battery life of ooooh... 40 mins

Simon/~Flibster
 
I process quite a lot of 20D RAW files for weddings and both my desktop and laptop are fast enough. Gernally speaking; it's the badly coded applications that run slow.

Desktop - 2½ years old
Athlon 2400+ XP
1GB Ram

Laptop
2.0 GHz Centrino
1GB Ram

Windows XP Pro on both
 
XP 64
Dual Xeon (2.8)
3Gb ECC DDR PC2700
19" Hyundai L90D+ (Will be replaced with 22" Eizo CRT when I have the space)

This is my main Rig at the mo but will be for Photo work only when I get my Conroe / Kentsfield rig
 
Xp3500 with 2gb, struggles with PSCS2 and is slow batch processing with RSP.

Macpro 2x 2.66Ghz Dual Core Xeon with 4gb ram, under OSX PSCS2 flies even with the PPC binary and Aperture is a dream to use, under Windows again no issues are all, slightly let down by RSP, i thought it would process 4 images at once (im sure I read it did that on multicore) but it still hammers its way thru them.
 
2.4ghz P4, 2GB of PC3200 RAM all at stock.

1GB of RAM was fine with Photoshop CS. Had to stick an extra Gig of RAM in when I upgraded to CS2 as it was struggling. It made all the difference.
 
PC1 (home built)
AMD 3800 dual core
2GB RAM
7800 GTX
1.2TB storage
LCD

PC2 (Dell)
Intel dual core 2.8
2GB ram
Ati video
400GB storage
Calibrated CRT

Gigbit betwen the two etc. Use CS1 and CS2, DPP etc. Dual core really makes a difference in PS as does a lot of memory.
 
S754 3200+, 2GB ram, fine for most things but it begins to struggle batch resizing about 30 images.

Anyone using conroe yet? Due an upgrade anyway :D
 
AMD 3200+, 2GB ram, lots of hdd space. win xp 32bit. fast enough for me. also a DELL Latitude D620 when i am away on holiday/business. THe dell is a bit on the slow side and the LCD is crap.
 
Desktop:
Intel Core 2 Duo 6300
x2 1GB G.Skill Ram
x2 200GB HDD
Geforce 7300
20" Dell TFT
Can't complain with speed.


Laptop:
Apple G4 1.33Ghz
1.5GB Ram
30GB HDD
Can get very sluggish. When I go on holiday I shoot Jpeg!
 
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