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Need a computer technician-philly area

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Andrew C

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Looking for a good computer problem solver to straighten out my new build:

I recently bought a Dell xps8500 refurb from new egg. I also got a samsung pro 256GB SSD. I cloned the original HD onto the ssd with the software provided by samsung. The machine booted fine from the new drive and I am
now using the old drive as my data drive.

I use this machine for image editing...mostly photoshop. It is an 17 processor
w 12g of ram. I am running photoshop CS2. It has not been ideal. My editing
usually involves opening multiple jpegs..about 50 15mb files at a time and running thru them quickly one by one. The problem with this new machine is that as I continue editing thru the group...the image windows start to "blink"..in other words vanish momentarily as the file is saved as if I am short of memory or processing power. Rebooting the program solves this temporarily..but it comes back again soon. My old machine with only 4 gigs of ram and a dual core E8500 processor never did this...although it would start to run slower with multiple files.

I am willing to travel about 60mile radius of Cherry Hill, NJ
 
All that memory on your system isn't going to do you any good unless the software can actually use it. PS CS2 is 32-bit-only, so it can use no more than 4GB of memory (it's got the LGA flag, so 4GB is its limit, otherwise it would've been only 2GB). CS4 is the first version of PS available as 64-bit.
 
code65536 said:
all that memory on your system isn't going to do you any good unless the software can actually use it. Ps cs2 is 32-bit-only, so it can use no more than 4gb of memory (it's got the lga flag, so 4gb is its limit, otherwise it would've been only 2gb). Cs4 is the first version of ps available as 64-bit.
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Brilliant.
 
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Still...why is my old machine running snappier and better than the new one with the same program....the windows containing the photos blink off at every action and even
the tools windows disappear as and action is done.
 
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Andrew C said:
Still...why is my old machine running snappier and better than the new one with the same program....the windows containing the photos blink off at every action and even
the tools windows disappear as and action is done.
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Some people find 32 bit apps run slower in 64-bit OSes than on 32-bit.
Despite what MS says.

I checked, cause this is the first time I am running 64-bit, and most of my apps are still written for 32-bit, an,d having doubled the RAM the system arrived with to 8GBs of DDR3, I need to feel the upgrade wasn't totally wasted, and, when using a 64-bit app it is off the chain.

Any min now, people who have not yet, will write 64-bit versions of their software.:whiste:
 
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paul878 said:
PS2 is very old.
You can download a trial version from adobe and see it that solves your problem.
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This is what you really need to try before you do anything else. By downloading, installing and running the trial version, you'll be able to see if your system is truly malfunctioning or not.

The simple fact of the matter is that you are running very obsolete software (i.e. CS2, intended for WinXP) on Windows 8. The Windows driver models alone (especially graphics drivers) have vastly changed since WinXP beginning with the initial Vista release and moving onwards. You should probably actually count yourself lucky that it even still works at all.

I assume you are running the patched CS2 revision that Adobe released earlier this year via their websites for registered owners and not the CS2 version installed from your own CD?
 
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