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    Photography rig design: your thoughts?

    Ha :) I've been reading photo.net since 1996 and this was still my first stop for design/build advice. :) About the PS scratch space, I'm thinking about another small SATAII drive to hold my Lightroom database, scratch files and PVR recordings if I throw a card in there. It's still...
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    Photography rig design: your thoughts?

    I might, I'm not sure yet. I've not done it before, and with these specs I'd be plenty happy. I'm not interested in pushing framerate metrics on FPS games. But if I could up the specs a bit without any cooling or stability worries, I'd consider trying it.
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    Photography rig design: your thoughts?

    Vista looks sexier, but I don't care enough about its features to use it so I expect to be using XP for some time. I'm still debating whether to use the 2 500GB drives in RAID1 or not, but they are intended to duplicate each other, not offer 1TB of usable space.
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    Photography rig design: your thoughts?

    Hi all, I'm taking the leap to building a new rig, optimized for photography work and graphic design, but also used for internet and word-processing. I also have this fantasy that I will have some free time to play one or two of the latest crop of games with insanely cool graphics, but that's...