Adobe CS3 and Mac Pro

For professionals using Adobe CS3 on Mac Pro about how much RAM is needed to run all 6 programs together efficantly? I'm looking into upgrades and really need some advice- Any out there to give?
Thanks,
Port

It depends. If you work with files greater than 1GB, almost as much RAM as you want/need (8GB would be good).
What do you have now?
Are you use to using a large fast scratch RAID to help?
The more programs running (and not just CS3 but others as well) the more the merrier.
Same applies to whether you want 2.66 or 3.0 or 8-core model.
Have you read up on Barefeats test results?
Preliminary Barefeats tests and benchmarks:
http://www.barefeats.com/octopro.html
http://www.barefeats.com/octopro1.html
http://www.barefeats.com/octopro3.html
Mac Pro Benchmark Reports
You'll want Force VMBuffering Plug-in which is separate download and was not available if you do need to use OS X's caching.
Photoshop and multi-core
Photoshop CS3
Mac Pro memory performance
Mac Pro 2GHz 4GB 10K Raptor RAID Cinema HD   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   WD RE RAID Aaxeon FW800 PCIe MDD-G4 APC RS1500 Vista

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