Bummer... we're on CS3. :-(
-----Original Message----- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 9:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Upgrade O/S or GPU? yeah, and unless you have cs4 or cs5, you don't see any gains. those are the only photoshop versions that support gpu acceleration. Bill William Robbins wrote: > No worries. I played the same game with her machine as you are now, > and sadly the video card seemed to make little difference on its own. > RAM and proc have a big impact on rendering. > > - WJR > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 14:47, John Aldrich > <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com <mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> > wrote: > > Thanks... The specs on the Precision workstation I'm looking at are as > follows: > Dual Core Processor Core i3-540, 3.06GHz > Genuine WindowsR 7 Professional, No Media, 64-bit, English > 1.0GB NVIDIAR QuadroR 600, Dual MON, 1 DP & 1 DVI > 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst CacheT > > He doesn't do a *lot* of rendering... just a few times per week, > but when he > does, he needs a machine that can do it. > > According to CPUz, the Graphics interface is a PCIE-x16....that's > kinda what > led me to think about upgrading the graphics card. It's only a 512 > Mb video > card, and I was thinking maybe a 1 Gig card might be better...but > I thought > I'd better ask here first. :-) > > > > From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com > <mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com>] > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 3:28 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Upgrade O/S or GPU? > > By the by, the specs on her machine: Win 7 x64, Core2 Duo 2.8 GHz, > and 8 GB > RAM with an NVidea card with 1 GB of VRAM...but she does a lot of > rendering. > > I'd venture to guess the occasional PS rendering could be happy on > 4 - 6 GB > RAM...depending on the size of what's actually being rendered. > > - WJR > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 14:23, William Robbins > <dangerw...@gmail.com <mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com>> wrote: > About any "desktop" you buy now would be better than what they are > currently > using. The real question is what do they need? My fiance' does a > lot of > 3-D rendering in, and I ended up upgrading memory, video, and > processor to > meet her needs. > > The real question is how often does marketing person actually do 3D > renders? Why would they need a, more expensive, gaming laptop to > accomplish > this? > > > - WJR > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 14:18, John Aldrich > <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com <mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> > wrote: > Assuming (just for arguments sake...not planning on this right > now) that I > order a new PC for the marketing guy, would you recommend a > "desktop" or a > "workstation"? 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