Photoshop CS3 speed?

Hi all,
I wonder if anyone can help me?
RE: How do I set up my G5 Quad for optimum Photoshop speed?
I have an Apple Mac G5 2.5 Quad. One of the very last of the Power PC Tower Macs. I have two internal drives fitted. One 500GB runs the Applications, the other 250GB is partitioned into two. One half is used for File storage, the other is used as a Photoshop scratch disc. I have 4.5 GB RAM installed.
I'm running the latest version of Leopard and Adobe CS3.
So how can I can I get PS to run faster on large multi layered artwork / illustration files that are about 1.5 GB in size?
Am I doing all I can?
Would more RAM help?
Would the scratch disc be better off not partitioned?
Would it it be best to have my files in the 'Home' folder, on the applications hard drive and NOT have the scratch disc partitioned?
Would I be better off putting the cash towards a new Mac Pro instead?
Any thoughts and advice kindly received?
K

Similar machines Doug although mine is the first-shipment 2 GHz version and you have the snazzier 2.5 model.
I have these plug-ins enabled but I have 5.5 GB RAM and I believe that "Force VM Buffering" is recommended for machines with more than 4 GB RAM if you work on large files so it might, or might not, improve performance on your machine.
There are two flavours of VM Buffering and this Readme explains which one you should use:
http://tinyurl.com/66y9vh [URL edited for length]
Try it and see whether it helps or not.
>Bigger Tiles Plug-In
The Bigger Tiles plug-in causes Photoshop to process image data in larger chunks. This will reduce the overall time to complete many operations, especially on computers with more than 1 GB of RAM installed. Bigger Tiles will also reduce the responsiveness of the application in some situations.
Bigger Tiles definitely improved redrawing times for me with my original video card and still works with the 256 Mb VRAM card that I installed recently although I haven't tried running with it disabled.

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Since I'm working with large photos (20" X 24" and even larger) and layers my main concern is speed. The Apple store lists five items in their suggested configuration, any suggestions for what upgrades I need to make will be greatly appreciated!
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i allocates (i.e. reserves)
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What is the ultimate SSD config for photoshop Cs3 - I´m planning to have an 256SSD combined with the expresscard slot with an SSD as scratchdisk, Will this have a significant speed boast?
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Torgeir Hamsun wrote:
What is the ultimate SSD config for photoshop Cs3 - I´m planning to have an 256SSD combined with the expresscard slot with an SSD as scratchdisk, Will this have a significant speed boast?
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Heh heh heh. It's always true that we find the answer just after making public our problems, which in turn we did after trying to find the problems ourselves for hours.
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