Motherboard and Ram for CS6

I am ordering my components for a custom build to run CS6. I had someone put together a components list for me, and I looking for a second opinion on the motherboard and ram.
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=19876205
Asus Maximus gene V and G.Skill SniperGaming Series 16GB ?
I would like to get the overall price down, and was wondering if I could save some money here? Also, if there are any other comments you would like to make about the components list, feel free.

You can contact PowerBookMedic for the parts. They ship internationally.
http://www.powerbookmedic.com/MacBook--Macbook-Pro-Parts-and-Repair-p-1-c-446.ht ml?gclid=COXvCp25ECFQgRGgodv3bCfg

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Need help with buying graphics card and ram for MSI 865PE NEO 2-V

Hi,
I want to buy 1GB of ram for motherboard MSI 865PE NEO 2-V I need help with finding correct parts.
I also want to buy 512Mb or 1GB graphics card.
as i said before i need help with finding correct ones so they match motherboard, I would appreciate if any one would post link to cheap and fitting parts.
I found graphics card allready, i just need to know if it will fit.
the card is
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS (512 MB) AGP Graphics Card
Thanks for help.

here you can see test reports for your mobo:
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/865PE-Neo2-V.html#?div=TestReport

What are the new pricing and fees for Cs6?

What will I be forced to pay to keep upgrading my Master Collection to the next version (Cs 6)? Can I still purchase Dvd's and install the software on my own computer or will I be forced to move to the non-safe cloud? Where my hardwork can be hacked and stolen! The cloud is worthless to many of us wishing to keep control over copyright and useage rights.I am guessing more people want to keep it the way it is and not shift control over to a hackable cloud. Nothing on the web is safe, so why shift everything over to the cloud and force many of your long time customers to pay monthly fees or the software locks us out. For over 25 years I have bought and paided for Adobe software, where is my monthly kickback for using your software? If this is the wave of the future I guess i have bought my last upgrade!

I think you misunderstand the cloud.
Nobody is going to force you to store your files there. It’s a part of the service that you can use or not use at your own discretion.
As for pricing, if you’re on CS5 or CS5.5 you will be able to buy an upgrade at reduced pricing and continue that route. If you’re on CS4 or earlier you’ll have three choices.
1.       Pay full price for CS5
2.       Move to Creative Cloud for whatever the subscription price is
3.       Stay with what you have.
Hope that helps,
Bob

Cooler and RAM for the MSI P67A GD65?

I am thinking about getting the Thermaltake Frio for the MSI P67A GD65 board.
The ram i am thinking about is = G.Skill RipJawX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz.
Does anyone have the above components?
Does the cooler clear the ram?
Can anyone recommend some Ram and /or Cooler if the G.Skill is not suitable.
Cheers guys.

That Depends on how you set up the heatsink.
I happen to have this exact heatsink, but not the same RAM, I have Corsair. In order for me to use the heatsink, I had to put the fan at the rear of the motherboard (where the rear exhaust fan is) and not use the extra fan that came with it because it would block the RAM slots closest to the CPU. This caused me to switch the exhaust fan to an intake fan, which isn't a huge deal if you have top exhaust fans(i do). Be aware that if you have a sidefan/funnel/whatever over your cpu, you'll need to remove it as this heatsink stands a whopping 6.5(give or take .01in) inches tall.
see attached pics

Actions and manual for cs6

How do you record and set new actions as f keys. So as to eliminate undo redundance?
Also, is there a paper manual? If so how do I aquire it?

Hello and welcome to the forum!
Here's what the Photoshop Help page (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7448a.h tml) recommends:
Open a file.
In the Actions panel, click the Create New Action button or choose New Action from the Actions panel menu.
Enter an action name, select an action set, and set additional options:
Function Key
Assigns a keyboard shortcut to the action. You can choose any combination of a function key, the Ctrl key (Windows) or Command key (Mac OS), and the Shift key (for example, Ctrl+Shift+F3), with these exceptions: In Windows, you cannot use the F1 key, nor can you use F4 or F6 with the Ctrl key. Note: If you assign an action the same shortcut that is used for a command, the shortcut will apply the action rather than the command.
There is no paper manual for Photoshop CS6, but there is a PDF, which you can download from http://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/photoshop_reference.pdf
There is also extensive online Help: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop.html
I hope this helps!

Microphone and RAM for 2005 model Mac MINI??

My sister has a Mac MINE from Dec 2005:
Mac mini 1.42 512x1/ 80/
S/N: YM54701** <Edited by Host>
Since she is not at all computer-minded (but loves her MINI)- and I want to surprise her with a few upgrades when I visit her next week, what can I order (via the Apple Website?) or purchase to upgrade here MINI?
1. She wants to use SKYPE and has neither a microphone nor a videocamera for SKYPE. What is a good videocamera (with built-in Mic) that I can get? I have an iSight-- but I use it still so don't want to part with that!
2. Is it easy to upgrade her RAM to at least 1 gb? If so how and where to buy the RAM etc. She lives near Chattanooga, TN and I'll be at an APPLE STORE in Chicago on 24 June---
3. And not just for her MINI: What about FireWire adapter cables to be able to:
A. Take a FireWire 400 peripheral like an iSight and plug it into FW800 on a computer that only has FW800 (like a new MB13)?
B. Take a FW800 devise (like a Hard Drive) and plug it into a Mac with just a FW400 (like my MacBook from 2006)?
Thanks for any replies here!
Steve
Saturday 20 June 2009

Hello, Stephen Schulte2
1. I don't have a mini, but use this separate mic with good results:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/T6831LL/A
If you want a cable-free combined mic/webcam, Apple sells this BlueTooth model:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/TV520VC/A
For Skype known compatibly, you can search Skype's Store for Mac-compatible webcams:
http://shop.skype.com/webcams/ - most seem not to have integrated microphones
http://shop.skype.com/webcams/logitech-quickcam-communicate-deluxe.html has mic
2. "Easy" is a subjective term. This magazine shows how and says "Not Hard, But Not Easy".
http://www.macworld.com/article/42237/2005/01/macminiinside.html
You can even see video of it being done on this site:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1UmuWdNSrk
Whether you want to try it or have a technician do it is your choice.
If you do it yourself, Crucial RAM has a good reputation with many Mac users:
http://www.crucial.com/store/listmodel.aspx?pl=Mac%20mini&mfgr=Apple&cat=RAM
In my Macs, I usually use OWC RAM (and other expansion products.) The products I have bought from them are reliable and low-priced, and OWC offers as much support as you need:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/mac-mini/
Whatever you decide to do, I strongly suggest that any RAM you buy has a lifetime warranty.
3. A. You can use this cable that Apple sells:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/TP320LL/A
If you like, you can buy it locally or directly from Belkin:
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=164598
3. B. That cable is bi-directional, so it does not matter which end is FW 400 or 800.
However, an adapter that connects 6pin FW400 to 9pin FW800 may be more convenient. You have a choice of many, but here are a couple of examples from which you can choose:
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fw_adapter.html or
http://tinyurl.com/cgll7o
If you want other options, a wide variety of cables and adapters of many kinds are available from:
http://www.monoprice.com/
EZ Jim
G5 DP 1.8GHz w/Mac OS X (10.5.7) PowerBook 1.67GHz (10.4.11)
iBookSE 366MHz (10.3.9) External iSight

I need help, motherboard and RAM

Tomorrow morning I have to buy all the parts, and only left me two.
My options were: Deluxe Asus P9X79-WS, Asus X79 Rampage or ASRock Fatal1ty Champion,Gigabyte Ga-X79s- UP5
Any other options?
Hare 3930k OC without touching the voltage.
In thinking about the G.Skil RAM but it is 1.6 v ...
Please i need help.
My system:
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 OC 2GB GDDR5 http://www.pccomponentes.com/gigabyt...2gb_gddr5.html
Intel I7-3930K http://www.pccomponentes.com/intel_c...cket_2011.html
Corsair HX650 650W 80 Plus Gold http://www.pccomponentes.com/corsair...plus_gold.html
Noctua NH-D14 http://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B002...A1AT7YVPFBWXBL
Corsair 500R Carbide Series Blanca http://www.pccomponentes.com/corsair...es_blanca.html
Samsung 840 Pro SSD Series 256GB SATA3 Basic Kit http://www.pccomponentes.com/samsung...basic_kit.html
2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB SATA3 http://www.pccomponentes.com/seagate...1tb_sata3.html
Thanks

You might go to the CS5 Benchmark http://ppbm5.com/ and see if there is a motherboard sort... I think ASUS is used more than either of the other two brands you mention
A note from Harm about ram http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1089842

CPU and RAM for TimesTen

I have test performance statistics for our java application (using oracle db) on a 4 X Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ 8360 SE cpu node with 64 GB RAM.
I am trying to collect performance statistics for TimesTen on a 2 X Dual Core Intel Xeon 5160 cpu node with 8 GB RAM.
My question is how does TimesTen treat processors. Is dual core considered as 2 cpu or single cpu?
So am I comparing performance - (2 X 2 = 4) TT vs (4 X 4 = 16) Oracle DB ?
Any suggestions on how should we compare the performance statistics obtained on the two machines ?

Please see my answers embedded below:
1. Under what conditions does TimesTen use multiple processors ?
CJ>> There are many background daemon components to TimesTen that are multi-threaded and may use multiple processors to some extent as required (main daemon, sub-daemons, replication agent, cache agent).
The main daemon is a very lightweight process that is purely supervisory in nature. It is not involved in database transatcion processing etc. and so its CPU usage is very low.
Each active datastore (database) has a dedicated managing sub-daemon. Again, this is not directly involved in transaction processing but it too has several threads. The checkpointer thread may use a lot of CPU while a checkpoint is occurring. The log flusher thread will use CPU in proportion to the intensity of write operations (primarily INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) in the application workload (this thread is responsible or flushing the transaction log buffer to the log files on disk).
If replication, or AWT caching, is used the replication agent transmitter and/or receiver threads may use significant CPU depending on the replicated workload.
If Cache Connect is being used then the cache agent threads may use significant CPU when e.g. an AUTOREFRESH is in progress.
These ar all background activities and you do not have direct control over how many CPUs or how much CPU time is used by them. They will try and use what they need and the O/S will allocate them time based on available system resources.
Equally significant is the CPU power used to process application transactions. Each application process/thread that is executing via a separate connection will potentially be executing concurrently within TimesTen hence if you have 20 application threads (or processes) each with its own connection to a TimesTen datastore then TimesTen could potentially use up to 20 CPUs/cores concurrently. This is the key factor in your ability to control how many CPUs/cores TimesTen. The crucial things to understand here are:
1. In direct connection mode there is no dedicated TimesTen server process. All DBMS logic is encapsulated in the TimesTen library (libtten.so). All database query and transaction processing is actually executed in the context of the application thrad that makes the database call. Hence, as I mentioned, if there are 'n' concurrent application processes/threads each with a separate database connection then TimesTen can potentially use 'n' CPUs/cores concurrently. Essentially, # concurrent connections = max concurrent CPUs/coires.
2. In client server there is a dedicated server process or thread (depending on configuration) for each application connection and so again # concurrent connections = maximum number of concurrent CPUs / cores that will be used.
2. What techniques do I use to ensure maximum performance on this -
a. Machine with 2 cpu (each is a dual core processor) and 8 GB RAM.
CJ>> The number of physical CPUs (chips) is irrelevant. What matters is the number of cores. In this case 4. So, the system can concurrently execute up to 4 tasks. Anything more than 4 and tasks may have to wait for available CPU in order to execute. Since there are no blocking operations within TimesTen database processing then from a TimesTen perspective this machine can execute 4 application threads performing database access at maximum speed. Of course in reality CPU time is needed for the application, O/S, TT background processes etc. etc. so one would aim for fewer than 4 concurrent database processes. This assumes of cousre that there is no blocking at the application level either and that these processes or threads can therefore spend 100% of the available time executing. If the application blocks for any reason (e.g. waiting for the next 'request' from somewhere) then this introduces idle toime and so one can increase the number of concurrent application processes/threads to use up this idle time thereby increasing overall throughput.
b. Application using direct connection mode with weblogic Application server
CJ>> See my comments above. Generally one would use a connection pool and configure the number of connections to optimise performance (some experiments will be needed to arrive at the optimal value since it is very much dependant on the application workload and processing model).
c. All data is cached in TimesTen (using Cache Groups) for read intensive operations (There are few write operations as well but TT is mainly for the reads). Should the connections be 4 or 3 in this case ?
CJ>> If the volume of cache refrshes is low then you don't ned to 'reserve' much CPU for checkpointing logging and so you have all 4 cores available for application+database processing (plus O/S etc.). If the application is mostly using the database and not waiting for stuff outside the database then the optimal number of connections is probably in the range of 3-6. If the application does a lot of non-database work which may include waiting for things then the optimal number of connections will be much higher. Again, you need to experiment to find out what is optimal.
Chris

Processor speed and RAM for Aperture? Comparing MacBook Pros.

I'm about to purchase a macbook pro and thought it best to ask people who are actually using aperture and other image editing software this question. I need to know if a boost in processor speed and video card from the 2.16 to the 2.33 MBP is noticable enough to make a difference. I'm just getting into RAW editing and my iBook can't handle aperture because of the video card, and I don't want to have any problems in the future. Is the price worth the difference?
I've tried posting in other places and have had little response, so I would appreciate it a lot considering I need to purchase today or tomorrow!

All in all, I'd recommend the 2.33 for Aperture. You'll likely keep this laptop for a 2-3 years, so what do the extra dollars give you?
The modest speed bump between 2.16 and 2.33 is OK ... Aperture will use it, esp. since there are 2 x procs. It's really 2 x 10% uplifts, theoretical. You will feel around a 5-10% improvement I suspect.
The bigger reason is the video card VRAM .... 256Mb v 128Mb. VRAM WILL BE USED BY APERTURE and cannot be upgraded later. You soon notice when your RAW's or scanned images are paged from VRAM to main memory and back. Aperture moves the image into VRAM for processing image data using the GPU. More is a good, good thing..... esp. if you ever hang a 2nd monitor off your laptop (which is very common practice).
The additional 1Gb RAM is also needed. Aperture runs like a dog with 8Mpixel plus RAW's on 1Gb RAM and really starts to cruise on 2Gb.
So, you'd need the extra Gb RAM anyway, $175 add-on. That leaves a net of $325, or less than $10/month over the life of your laptop.
All in all then, I'd recommend the 2.33 v 2.16 for Aperture.
G.

New Features and Improvements for CS6

IMPORTANT:
By default, Photoshop comes with the Proofing Colors (Cmd/Ctrl+Y) activated and set to CMYK. Adobe must warn about that, because I was editing a large amount of pictures for work and I was doing it under that color profile/work space.
LAYERS PANEL:
Layer Adjustments:
Solid Color: visual feedback in real time.
Gradient: IDEM as above.
Pattern: IDEM as above.
Gradient Map: IDEM as above.
Gradient Editor: IDEM as above.
Opacity and Fill: IDEM as above.
Curves and Levels: Ability to load alfa channels. This way, the adjustments made on the alfa channel won't be destructive.
CHANNELS PANEL:
Channel Luminosity Selection:
Ability to add and subtract from the selection.
Ability to designate an area to be selected.
For point 1, by using the shortcut Cmd+Alt+[number] the luminosity of a channel is loaded as selection. With Cmd+Alt+Shift+[number], the selection grows. But there is no way to subtract from selection (unless by clicking with the mouse on the channel's thumbnail). I think that can be solved by using Cmd+Alt+Shift+[- or +] in order to subtract or add from selection.
Point 2 maybe even more important than point 1, because it allows selecting a designated area by the user, instead of the default luminosity selection, which ranges from 50% of the mid tones to the highlights (or shadows, if the selection is inverted). The user should be allowed to select the starting and finishing points of the luminosity selection.
I thought 2 ways for solving these issues (and making it more intuitive and faster):
A) By using the Histogram Panel, by dragging and highlighting an area on it, that it should load the selected luminosity pixels as a selection, as shown in figure 1:
figure 1
So the result of doing that will be a selection based on the area of the histogram that have been highlighted.
B) By creating a new Adjustment Layer:
It can be based in the same structure of the HUE Adjustment Layer, like figure 2 shows:
Figure 2
Or it can be this way (much better). Figure 3:
Figure 3
The selection can also be controlled by using the Click and Drag as suggested in the figure 1, as shown in the figure 4:
Figure 4
The overlaid highlighting over the histogram can be functional or just a mere graphic representation of the Range and Fade Selector. The "Fading" areas should be also be draggable in order to increase smooth the selection. However, the smoothing can be much better done with the Refining Selection tool and it can be ignored from this new tool.
In any of these cases, the adjustments should give real time feedback when growing or shrinking selection; we must see the selection going bigger or smaller and also, the highlighted area should be draggable as well.
TOOLS PANEL:
Brush: detect edges while painting on masks (for manual mask refining. It would work similar to the Replace Color Brush, but only for masks and alfa channels). It also needs a shortcut to set the opacity.
Dodge & Burn: Protect Tones should be allowed when painting on masks or alfa channels (for manual mask refining). D&B can also use edge detection as well.
FILTERS:
Some of them, like the ones involving Blur or the High-Pass and the Unsharp Mask filter, should work in real time (these ones, at the least).
It can also added a Particle Generator Filter.
It would be really nice having the ability to create particles such as dust, fog, rain, snow, etc in a more realistic manner than just the scattering function from the Brush Palette, or by mixing different filters with different blends. The Particle Generator should have an slider to control the depth of field, so it will give a feeling of depth and also, a way to load masks, so that way, the particles can exists before the image and also, behind. It would be great for creating a nice feeling of depth (kind of a bokeh effect).
I've been playing with After Effect few times, and the way to create shapes and forms from nothing is the way of easier than in Photoshop.
TIME LINE:
I think it's time give dynamism the filters applied to a movie clip, and also, dynamics to the fade effects, like it happens in After Effects by adding Bezier Curves.
HISTOGRAM:
It should be possible to zoom in into the histogram, for a more precise feedback and analysis of the image tonal values.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES:
The fade tool should work in real time.
Loupe/Magnificator View:
This is very useful when it comes to edit and image in detail, with a lot of zoom, like 3200%. Unfortunately, Photoshop doesn't provide a real time feedback in an additional window, such as the Window/Arrange/New Window For […].
It would be really useful having a window showing the image at fit on the screen while working on the other window at 100% or 3200% of zoom, but in real time. This way, you can see if you're doing a good job on the pixels or, if you're overdoing it.
It happens that, when working with big images at 100% of the image size (or more), the brain cannot figure out how is looking the whole image, so having a realtime feedback in the other window would help a lot for detailled work.
And why not, ading the same real time structure descrived above but to the Navigator, for faster and lighter use of the hardware capabilities. Probably, adding a check box to the navigator that blocks it to a given zoom, so when zooming into the image in the navigator, the image shown in the window isn't magnified too.
Give me a chance to show you some examples of what I have done by improvising particles and fog about 5 years ago:
http://mart1980.deviantart.com/gallery/5027033#/d1m119x
And what I did 7 years ago by manually, selecting different shades of gray and using just Levels for 8 hours (which coule be done faster and easier with another tool I thought, which I will post later):
I cannot post examples of the other features I'm suggesting because there are not such new features yet (I would have to create an hipothetical enviroment, but I think, you can fiure it out in your mind).
Unfortunately, I don't know programing, even though, I tried something with Filter Factory, achieving good results, but that pluging consumes too much resources and/or is bad designed/have not the right tools for certain things.
Hope this post is enough worthy of the Adobe's attention.
Thanks,
Ø³

This is a poorly explained reason about why is so important having a loupe in Photoshop. I've not also, used the best example, but I will. This belongs to the ADDITIONAL FEATURES: Loupe/Magnificator View:. Also, I will try to make my english clrearer, but here it goes:

Where are you getting backgrounds, textures, and templates for CS6?

I'm just curious about good web sites to download royalty free backgrounds, templates, textures, etc. for Photoshop. I'm willing to pay a small annual fee to join the site, but of course free is always good too. I'd rather avoid places like iStock- I'm looking more for a site that has Photoshop or other design applications in mind.
I've found a couple of sites through Google, but they seem old and not updated as often (they still mention compatibility with CS4 and 5).
So what are your favorite sites?
Thanks in advance!

Thanks, but I'm thinking more along the lines of something like cgtextures.com. Great site with lots of stuff but the vast majority are photos. I'd also like templates and non-photo images.
For example, the other day I had to create a "Wanted: Dead or Alive" poster for someone. I found some good tutorial instructions on how to do it (I'm a photographer, not a graphics artist, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to graphics). One of the steps had me downloading some textures for the poster's background that no longer existed on the Internet, so I had to improvise a little.
I'd love to find a template for something like that that already has all the important elements in it. While I love learning new stuff, sometimes I have a deadline and it just has to get done. Open template, pop in picture, do some adjustments, etc.... done.
So I'm looking for templates along the lines of Photobacks, for example.
And I'm looking for non-photo graphics like you'd find on, for example, a band or movie poster.
Again, not being a graphics artist, I'm not going to go and recreate all that stuff. I have no problem paying a small fee... I just don't want to pay $30 for a star burst or a bolt of lightning that will end of being one little tiny element in a bigger work.

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This topic has been moved to Retired motherboards.
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here you can see test reports for your mobo:
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/865PE-Neo2-V.html#?div=TestReport

OK WHATS THE BEST MOTHERBOARD AND CPU FOR ONLINE GAMING

Here i go again thinking about stepping up on motherboaerds and cpus! If you have an opinion on which would make the best online gaming setup let me here you hollor! I will only go with intel so all amd lovers dont bother!

He's better off with a Q6600 over the E6850, because you can clock the Q6600 to QX6850 speeds and it's quad core, so future proof anyway.
And the Q6600 costs less.
However the CPU will be very limited by that 7900GT.
A 8800GTX or HD2900XT would be a better choice.
EDIT: Get a G0 stepping Q6600, they have a lower TDP of 95w and require less voltage.

Upgrading graphics card and ram on late 2011 macbook pro?

Hi. I have a late 2011 macbook pro, and I wanted to know if i could upgrade my graphics card and ram for better performance while gaming. I play WoW and diablo 3 and often notice lag and can only run on low settings. So my graphics are Intel HD 3000 which is integrated, and i was wondering if i could upgrade to a graphics card like AMD or nvidia. Also, would upgrading from 4 gb of ram to 8gb of ram help my performance? Thanks.

You cannot upgrade the graphics card on your MBP. It is soldered to the logic board.
RAM can be increased to 8 or 16 GB. The correct specifications are; 204-pin PC-10600 (1333 MHz) DDR3 SO-DIMM.
The best vendors for Mac compatible RAM are OWC and Crucial.
Ciao.

CS6 and RAM (Win7 64bit)

Am getting ready to get my next computer started this coming week and now trying to see if 16 Gb RAM is sufficient.. in other words is 32 Gb RAM worth an extra $120 in terms of performance. Will be using Intel 3770K CPU. Major usage for Pshop is digital images. Presently working with 18MP files and anticipate by summer's end to be working with 100-180Mb Tif files.
GPU.. am planning on using built in HD4000 Intel graphics, at least at first. Thx in advance!

Thx Trevor,
Is always interesting when "things" change. Currently am still an XP holdout and now that Win 8 is on the near horizon I'm transitioning to Win7 64. Once I was an early adopter and "enjoyed" the growing pains but as I've aged and dealing with longer work hours, and other issues, my desire for the bleeding edge has gone away.. stability is a key for me!
To say 16Gb "should" be enough just sounds funny! But doubling RAM right now will add about $120 to the cost of my build which is already nearing the $2K mark, and I just cannot find any real evidence the extra 16 Gb is going to make CS6 run visibly better. I was going to us the built in HD4000 GPU of the 3770K CPU but am now getting information that CS6 may well benefit from a dedicated graphics card. In past CS seemed to make little use of GPU.
Is odd that Pshop would still use a sratch disk with that much RAM but am curious then about using RAM to set up a RAM disk ala the old days in Win 3.1 when RAM disks were essential for speed. If I bought the extra RAM I was going to pursue setting up a RAM disk and use it for the scratch disk. if possible that would certainly speed things up.
I am also going down path of an SSD for my boot disk but (and have not yet researched it yet) saw the Seagate "hybrid" drives that might work well for a scratch disk.. the 750 Gb hybrids are about $140 at this time and without question would be fast, as long as theya rent limited by number of writes like SSD's are.
So that is my balance point... 16 Gb versus 32 Gb and to have a dedicated GPU or use HD4000 for CS6. I have an ATI V4900 in current machine I could reuse but its OpenGl support in XP has bene dismal and so am considerng the Quadro 600 nvidia card in hopes the drivers are better, if I go dedicated GPU route. Right now it I am leaning toward 16 Gb and Nvidia GPU but will again sleep on it!

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