Photoshop and dual processors

[iwatkins]

Hi All,

Looking at moving up to Photoshop CS. I'm assuming what is in Photoshop 7 will be in the new CS.

Does anybody have experience of Photoshop 7 running under Windows on a dual processor machine ? Does it take full advantage of both processors and if the processors have HT does it take advantage of this as well ?

I ask as I have the option to buy a year old workstation that has a pair of 2.2 GHz Xeon processors which have the HT bit in them (technical term). The friend selling it has shown it running with both processors having HT switched on and it appears as four processors to his software (some 3D rendering stuff). Also appears as four processors under Windows XP.

Cheers

Ian

[CyberDyneSystems]

I can't speek for Hyper threadi9ng (I assume that is HT) but Photoshop is indeed one app that will take advantage of dual processors.

It won't "double your speed" but it will have a positve effect. It will also help with mutitasking.

[iwatkins]

Thanks CDS.

Yes HyperThreading = HT. I've had good results with it on some of my work servers but in a desktop role I don't if that will be helpful or not. Suck it and see I think.

Anyway, the machine is going fairly cheaply, so I think I'll go for it anyway as my current home machine isn't really up to big photo work and this machine has more USB 2.0 ports on it and all my drives (hard disks and DVD burner) will drop stright in.

Cheers

Ian

[John_T]

I read somewhere that Photoshop was developed and programmed on dual processor machines, which coincidently makes it function well on dual processor machines and take advantage of HT too.

You will have to scout around to get confirmation. Could check the Intel site.