Comments on: Your System Specs for a CS4 Upgrade

By: dual video card

dual video card — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:20:18 +0000

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By: Roman Johnston

Roman Johnston — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:21:50 +0000

Currenty running an AMD 2400+ Dualcore (about 4 year old processor) with 3GB of ram on Vista Ultimate 64bit OS. It is getting a little long in the tooth, so I just ordered some parts (which are being shipped as I write this).

New PC specs:
AMD Phenom II x4 905e CPU (65w quadcore that is pretty fast, but green too) ECS Black A785GM-M motherboard, and 8GB of DDR3 1333 (PC10600) memory. I have a copy of Windows 7 RC1 I will be using and have 2 raptor drives (10,000RPM each) 1 for WIndows Cache, and the other for Photoshop Cache. For a green machine I am thinking it will be quite zippy. Not an i7, but pretty fast none the less.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:05:29 +0000

Im just about to spec a new PC to rum CS4 on can anyone reccomend what would be the ultimate system please
many thx
mark

By: Mehigh

Mehigh — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:23:24 +0000

Is Photoshop CS4 performing better on a quad-core compared to a dual-core ?

(eg. Photoshop CS3 runs faster on 3.0Ghz dual-core rather than on a 2.8Ghz quad-core)

By: shadowcallmedia.com » Blog Archive » Adobe Announces CS4

shadowcallmedia.com » Blog Archive » Adobe Announces CS4 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:46:30 +0000

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By: Likah

Likah — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:18:08 +0000

Matt has a Dell (and a Mac) but he’s still got one!

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:30:25 +0000

Running Vista 64 with a quad core (q6600) 8 gig of ram, RAID 0 for the apps, and a 10K rpm scratch disk.
File sizes range from 230 megs to 1.8 gigs
Also run Lightroom 2. I just installed the 2.1 update and it has picked up a bit of speed. Running 500gig esata external drives for backups

By: egower

egower — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:50:22 +0000

I’d love it if you went with the Dell. It sure would be nice for us pc users to be represented by one of the Photoshop Guys.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:39:21 +0000

Hey RC,
I just order photoshop cs4. I am using a mac powerpc 1.6ghz. With 4gigs of ram. My graphic card is a ati GPA pro9600. It is a openGL 2.0., smart shader 2.0, smoothvision 2.1, AGP supported, 256ddr memory. AGP x4 and X8.
Will this support photoshop cs4??

Thanks

Mike

By: Supes

Supes — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:36:29 +0000

Mac Freak: Not true – actually Vista 64-bit (which I run) can utilize up to 128GB of RAM. If you run a 32-bit version the actual useable barrier is ~3GB and not 4GB.