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PC spec for CS3?

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  • 12-12-2007 7:00pm
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    squibs
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    I just got Adobe CS3 Web Premium at a good price. I know somebody running Illustrator CS2 on a dual core machine with 2Gb of RAM on XP and it crawls. Anybody running it on a windows machine with decent performance and if so what spec? Anybody running it on Vista?


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    mastermind2005
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    intel quad core 8mb cache

    4 gig of 1066mhz ram

    dual 10k rpm raptors in stripemode


    should be decent enough power


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    Webmonkey
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    Well i've CS2 on a laptop of 1GB and it runs sweetly. Surely CS3 can't be that much more hungry? Depends what you editing I guess


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    grahamor
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    mastermind2005 wrote: »
    intel quad core 8mb cache

    4 gig of 1066mhz ram

    dual 10k rpm raptors in stripemode


    should be decent enough power

    You dont need this much power to run photoshop or illustrator.

    It runs fine on a 1gb laptop for me too.

    However, if you were working with really, really high res images or files with hundreds or layers than more power could surely help


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    forbairt
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    I haven't actually upgraded to CS3 yet ... but the spec of the machines you are talking about seem very capable of handling it.

    It may be a case of bloatware being installed on the machines ?

    For example having 100's of fonts can cause a slow down on load.

    If you are dealing with print media then things can start slowing down a bit

    If this is a major concern for you as was mentioned get yourself some high speed drives (the ones I think mentioned were raptors from WD). PS using scratch disks can cause a slow down so if possible have the scratch disk on a different disk than the one you are saving your files to.

    Get yourself the full 4gbs of ram that your machine can handle as well (2gbs should be enough for most things but ram is cheap these days .. 100eur will get you 4gbs)

    apart from that any dual core machine should be more than capable

    My own setup at the moment is ... an XPS gen 3 machine
    2.8ghz p4 ... 2.5gb ram ... and I've no problems. I was working on a calendar recently at 300dpi .. and load times for it were a bit slow ... but for the most part it was rather fast

    as I said I'd assume its bloatware on the machine causing the slowdowns.


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    squibs
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    Thanks for the advice. The CS2 machine I mentioned was indeed doing a lot of print work, and would have a large collection of fonts installed.
    4 gig of 1066mhz ram
    It was my understanding that you needed a 64 bit version of windows if you wanted to access more than 3.2Gb?


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    Axwell
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    squibs wrote: »
    It was my understanding that you needed a 64 bit version of windows if you wanted to access more than 3.2Gb?

    Yup this is correct


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    mastermind2005
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    grahamor wrote: »
    You dont need this much power to run photoshop or illustrator.

    It runs fine on a 1gb laptop for me too.


    There arnt many pcs it wont run on but if your actually using it, you will want a decent computer, alot of the pro's are upto 16gb and beyond,


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