I'll answer this in a different way. I read most trade magazines, subscribe to Lynda and NAPP training, and own many mainstream books pertaining to this topic. About 3-4 years ago the trade and pros reflected your viewpoint, I have not seen anyone advocate CRT for any use in a long time. So...
Been doing Photoshop since 5.0 and use CS3 now, shoot with a Nikon D200 and regularly touch up photos 150-200MB. Also do heavy work in Premiere CS3.
First list is good and I will tell you why I differ with the comments that follow. 8GB is too much right now but assuming you will use...
Looked at Proc Explorer and all readings are the same (threads, priority, working set, etc.) except cpu. CPU is showing between 63-75% with explorer so the Perfmon is wrong but Dell is still pegged at about 97%. Also updated the Bios and rebooted, but no change.
Will do, but in the mean time here is the test I just ran. Both boxes running the same file. I used Performance Monitor and took some system performance snapshots as well. The Gigabyte completed a 3GB file (1080i, 29.97 fps, 2 pass vbr) in 54 minutes; the Dell took 2 hours and 31 minutes...
Both good thought trains, I can add a drive to the Dell and test again. I will see if any Dell overhead processes are running I can kill. I did some research on the 4GB Vista suggestion and although fairly recently true, everything I can find in the past two months seems to encourage 4GB as...
An interesting thought, I wouldn't have gone there. SP1 was supposed to implement the fixes to the earlier problems, Anandtech discuss them in great detail some time back. I will take a look at this approach. Thanks, this helps...
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Vista Ultimate SP1 on both; Premiere CS3 with current updates on both; background processes on both are the same i.e. Symantec AV, Windows Defender; no other third party packages. Gigabyte uses GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB; Dell has ATI Radeon 3800 1GB.
Single SATA drives with no RAID...
I bought a new Dell desktop to use for encoding video (no heckling please). It has a Quad 6600 4GB 800 DDR2 and 500 GB SATA. I have updated the power supply (Hiper 680watt) and video card (Radeon 3850 1GB). The board is based on a P35 chipset.
My existing is a home built using Gigabyte...
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