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Dual processor board or dual channel ddr board

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mike2010

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Here's my question: I am going to be doing desktop publishing, using photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, etc.
What MOBO/Processor /Ram combination is the best. Should I go with a dual processor board? I am using programs that are a couple a years old and I worry that they are not able to take advantage of dual processors. Am I wrong about this? Should I go with a dual channel ddr ram board? Also to have a good performing system what RAM does everyone perefer? Is it worth going with Major Brand CL 2? I heard that the performance difference between the Major Brand CL 2 and CL 2.5 is negligible. Is this correct? Are there better performing Major Brands? Last, I would like to take advantage of the best throughtput system I can buy. I have about $800 to spend on these three components. I need 1gig to 1.5 gigs of Ram. Any suggestions on bus speed for good throughput and the programs I will be using. Thanks.😕
 
my guess is if you need that much memory and you need a RAID array, you won't have enough left over for dual processors. i'd get dual channel DDR if you can find a board with it, but again, you may not have enough money left over. You're looking at like $600 for 1.5 GB of DDR memory and a couple of nice hard drives for RAID. That only leaves you $200 for motherboard and processor. I'd skip out on 512 MB of that memory and just get 1 GB, and put the savings into a faster processor.
 
Originally posted by: mike2010
Here's my question: I am going to be doing desktop publishing, using photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, etc.
What MOBO/Processor /Ram combination is the best. Should I go with a dual processor board? I am using programs that are a couple a years old and I worry that they are not able to take advantage of dual processors. Am I wrong about this? Should I go with a dual channel ddr ram board? Also to have a good performing system what RAM does everyone perefer? Is it worth going with Major Brand CL 2? I heard that the performance difference between the Major Brand CL 2 and CL 2.5 is negligible. Is this correct? Are there better performing Major Brands? Last, I would like to take advantage of the best throughtput system I can buy. I have about $800 to spend on these three components. I need 1gig to 1.5 gigs of Ram. Any suggestions on bus speed for good throughput and the programs I will be using. Thanks.😕
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Once you go to dual cpu's it's hard to come back to single cpu, the version of software is also key, you didn't list what version of the software you would be using so it would be hard to say. If your a power user and like to run multiple programs at the same time then dual cpu is exactly what your looking for.
 
IMHO, Forget the Dual processors and go for Dual monitors. 2 17inch or 18 LCD's will become more useful over the course of time in Desktop publishing.
 
mike2010, i couldn't respond to your PM cause you don't have them enabled. you can turn them on in your the profile section.

but the short answer is, I think your suggestion to go with SCSI is a good idea. If you were doing video editing, I'd say go with IDE RAID, but for image editing, I'd still go with SCSI. It looks to me like you're good to go, enjoy this system, it's going to rock. 🙂
 
I agree with Remedy. Don't spend too much money on dual processors, spend more money on dual monitors. I mean, how much time is actually spent rendering, and how much time is spent tweaking? Only I reccomend dual CRT's as LCD's are too expensive. For the price of a 17 inch LCD you could get a 21 inch CRT.

To discourage you from going with the dual Athlon you were thinking about.. i'd like you to see this link. The AthlonMP 2000+X2 didn't win a *single* benchmark. I don't know about the rest of your apps.. but I think if they're anything like photoshop, getting one might be a bad idea, *unless* you tend to run alot of apps simeltaneously.

A Matrox card. Parhelia rules, if you can afford it. If not..

I'm still with the Dual Channel DDR+P4 2.53 and as you can see if a dual AthlonMP 2000+ can get it's ass handed to it by an AthlonXP 2100+ running on the KT266A chipset, that's pretty sad.. 🙁

A fast Athlon is also a very atractive platofmr. A fast athlon combined with the Nforce2 platform can also be a contendor.

That being said, I think you're best bet is an Asus GB board with 1 gig of RAM, a P4 2.53, and dual monitors. Maybe an extra 17 inch monitor as your secondary display. Or 19 if you can afford it. The GB board will probably kick ass at photoshop.

I'd stick with CL2 as it tends to hurt performance really badly, to the point where a 2.4 sporting CL2 could probably take on a 2.53 and win the majority of the benchmarks. And all RAM performs the same with the same settings.


 
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