Critique my Setup - suggestions please!!!
Hi all. I'm new to this forum and hopefully some of you can help me. We have a photography business and recently bought a new custom built PC. It has the following specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo (Extreme Performance) Platform
Asus P5KC Core 2 Quad/ Intel P35/ DDR3+DDR2/ CrossFire/ A&GbE/ ATX Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q9300 2.5GHz 1333MHz 6MB LGA775 EM64T CPU, Retail
Antec Sonata III 500W Quiet Super Mini Tower Case (Piano Black)
4GB (2x2GB) PC6400 DDR2 800 Dual Channel
Samsung HD753LJ 750GB SATA2 7200rpm 32MB Hard Drive
Lite-On LH-20A1H-185 LightScribe 20X DVD+/-RW Drive (Black), Bulk w/o Software...(2)
1,44 3.5 Floppy INT Black
EVGA nVidia GeForce 8600GT 512MB 2DVI/HDTV PCI-Express Video Card
Integrated 8-Channel Audio Controller
10/100BASE-T On board Fast Ethernet LAN Controller (Build On Motheboard)
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit, (1-Pack DVD), OEM
We also have a USB 2.0 Seagate external harddrive that we keep most of our photos stored on. We move them to the harddrive before working on them. We are using Photoshop CS3 adn would like to make the program as fast as possible. I have read that having a second hard drive dedicated as a scratch disk will help immensely. My question is this. What type of drive should I buy? Also, I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 21 200GB UDMA/100 7200RPM 8MB IDE Hard Drive I may be able to use as my scratch disk (not sure if connections will work with this motherboard though). Would I see any significant performance boost by using this IDE drive as my scratch disk or would I better better off sticking with my current internal hardrive stated above? I'm not against buying a good second hard drive but don't want to if this IDE drive will work. If a second drive is recommended, what do you guys recommend given my current setup?
I would like to setup the machine with Raid drives and all that, but I don't know enough about how to do that I don't think.
Any suggestions? Also, one last quick thing, I sometimes get the scratch disk full error and sometimes CS3 just crashes. It also is slow sometimes. Please help. Thanks everyone!!!!!!
Do you suggest anything else in addition to getting a Sata drive? How big a drive do I need?
As much as I would love to switch to vista 64, your talkign about a significant investment. I did however ask for a motherboard when my cpu was being built that can handle both vista 32 and 64...so I have that covered. However, I don't feel like shelling out a ton of $$$$ on PS 64, Lightroom 64, vista 64, and any other program that is currently 32 bit on my cpu. That seems like alot bigger investment than I'm ready to make. ALso, I doubt all the bugs are worked out of 64 bit software as of right now. I ordered a floppy disk drive just to have it as I find they don't scratch as easy as CD's...lol. Also, they are just big enough to hold important docs such as password lists and stuff.
Thanks again and I welcome any other suggestions from anyone else as I'm new to the technical/cpu aspect of photoshop. Thanks!
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