How good is Opteron in photoshop?

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: HO

Originally posted by: AMDrulZ
Get An Athlon X2 3800 they are better than any of the lower end Pentium-D's and over clock well. Just use some high-end air-cooling and you should be good for Photoshop.

Umm, the idea is to be able to use more the 4G of memory when it becomes necessary to do so. Is there a board that supports the X2s that can do this?

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Well, if you go that way, make sure you get PCI-X (64 bit, and not to be confused with PCI-express). Yes, that advantage is that you will be able to use dual-core opterons for a total of 4 cores and at least 8 gig of memory (with the right mobo)

I wasn't aware that a board had to support PCI-X in order to use dual core Opterons.

EDIT: maybe I misread your statement... I think now that you did not mean to imply that dual core Opterons run only on a PCI-X board. However, if I don't have a high-end SCSI array, why would I need PCI-X?

Yes, you got my drift.. You don't need PCI-X to get dual Opterons, but why else would you want them except more memory capacity ? If you are going to spend a lot, get it all !