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Terminal Upgrade State

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Fike

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I am a little bit peeved, although I recognize that is all really of my own creation.

I have a decent socket 754 Newcastle processor running OCed at 2.3 Ghz. I have invested in 2 GB of DDR RAM for my system. I have a decent x850 pr AGP video card. I fully recognize that I have reached the terminal upgrade state.

Anything I choose to do, involves over $600 investment. That annoys me because I have always managed to make my upgrades incremental at under $300 or $400. this has kept me from ever having to sink major cash into my system.

If I go with a core duo thing (that causes me pain since I have been an AMD person since the 450Mhz K6III parts) I need to replace the RAM, processor, mboard and video card. $250 for RAM, $200 for processor, $100 for board, and $150 for vid card--total $700 or more. The same goes for an AMD system.

I could go to socket 939 and grab one of the last boards that support DDR. If I couple that with an Athlon X2 4600 Toledo, I might be able to get away with less: processor $220, RAM $0, mboard $100, video card $150--total $470. The problem with this system is that it leaves me in the same boat in a few years.

My application is PS CS2/3 with very large images (400MB or larger). I play some games, but that is not my primary purpose.

suggestions about my terminal upgrade state...



 
Nothing you can do about it other then what you said. Simply start saving the cash and eventually when you have it saved up, you can make your upgrade. You should be fine with what you have for a little longer.
 
Grab the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA motherboard with a core 2 duo. you can keep your video card and DDR ram in check until you can afford a new video card, then you're set for a fair amount of time...
 
Originally posted by: KayKay
Grab the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA motherboard with a core 2 duo. you can keep your video card and DDR ram in check until you can afford a new video card, then you're set for a fair amount of time...
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That is a pretty good idea except that you can't really get more than 2 GB of RAM on the board...or does it take the 2GB sticks?


 
I really like the idea of this board, but for a photoshop machine, limiting myself to 2 GB seems foolish, although I am still limping along with 2 GB right now.
 
Originally posted by: Fike
I really like the idea of this board, but for a photoshop machine, limiting myself to 2 GB seems foolish, although I am still limping along with 2 GB right now.
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I understand your frustration facing a $600+ upgrade price tag. 😱

But as far as your 2GB's goes...
Wouldn't getting a master blaster C2D help your 2GB situation?


 
I have been scouring the articles for something to eek a bit more power out of my satisfactory machine. Photoshop crawls when I work on 500 MB files. There are two things I have thought of. One is an i-RAM card with a couple of gig of RAM chips on it. I could use it for a faster scratch disk and/or pagefile. That idea is pretty expensive though. The other idea that I could do much cheaper would be to add another SATA drive to my system and setup as a RAID striping system. Use those drives for booting and for my scratch disk and pagefile. I will probably also add another gig of RAM to the system. That can never hurt.
 
um i've seen in action the vista readyboost function. i dont think it really helps with an application like photoshop, but i think it may help in other areas where 2gb may seem limiting?
 
You've saved alot of money staying w/ you sck754 system, so..... bite the bullet like everyone else and get on a new platform.

Things have never been cheaper considering what you get for your money..

You can get a Gig DS3 for about $135, $200 ram, and $200 C2D. That's a big improvement over what you have now..

Your lucky you've stayed put for so long, I can barely manage to keep my upgradeits in check... ;p 6 months and I need something new.. haha..

The only reason I don't have a C2D is because I've spent all my money upgrading my HT audio system.... 🙂

Regards,
Jose
 
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