Quad vs i7 In PS CS4 and LR2

basroil wrote in post #8378817
tri-channel vs dual channel, knight takes your bishop 6gb is faster (though not by much in most cases)...

Only untill you run out of RAM.

Tri-channel will have faster through put when 6GB is not limiting... no question there, but More is still more.. no matter what. As soon as 6GB is not enough, 8GB and dual channel will be plenty faster
Split the Jifference and Go with 9GB!

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #8383483
Only untill you run out of RAM.

Tri-channel will have faster through put when 6GB is not limiting... no question there, but More is still more.. no matter what. As soon as 6GB is not enough, 8GB and dual channel will be plenty faster
Split the Jifference and Go with 9GB!

Just what do you have to run in order to be memory limited with 6gb? I'm sure you could find something random you do, but will an average photographer run out of memory?

basroil wrote in post #8383506
Just what do you have to run in order to be memory limited with 6gb? I'm sure you could find something random you do, but will an average photographer run out of memory?

Go and batch a couple of hundred 16bit TIFF files with an action that uses layers.

Oh come on, you aren't really going to be one of those people that think we don;t need more than XXX amount of ram now are you? (is 64 K enough?)

If 8GB is not better than 6Gb then how is 6 better than 4?
How is 4 better than 2.. and so on.

You can read my point, which is 100% accurate.
I gave you that you were 100% accurate as well in that the correct division of 3 would improve RAM speed,..

You can't logically argue that 6GB will be faster when you reach the limit... and need more.

And of course we can reach that limit!
Why on earth are you debating that?

basroil wrote in post #8383506
Just what do you have to run in order to be memory limited with 6gb? I'm sure you could find something random you do, but will an average photographer run out of memory?

Yes. This is absolutely the case.

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #8383483
Only untill you run out of RAM.

Tri-channel will have faster through put when 6GB is not limiting... no question there, but More is still more.. no matter what. As soon as 6GB is not enough, 8GB and dual channel will be plenty faster
Split the Jifference and Go with 9GB!

basroil wrote in post #8383506
Just what do you have to run in order to be memory limited with 6gb? I'm sure you could find something random you do, but will an average photographer run out of memory?

Moppie wrote in post #8384359
Go and batch a couple of hundred 16bit TIFF files with an action that uses layers.

First, the dual vs tri channel argument - unless you like to run synthetic benchmark software all the time there is minimal real world advantage to tri channel memory configurations. The average user would never notice. Second, though there is a point of diminishing returns, many of Photoshop's filters are RAM intensive so if you have a lot of layers/filters RAM is going to benefit you far more than tri channel memory.

Thanks for all the advice you guys gave me, I ended up grabbing that Dell and it's much faster than what I had before.

This morning it wouldn't turn the monitor back on after being idle all night, I had it set not to go to sleep just turn the monitor off after an hour so not sure what happened... hopefully it won't be signs of things to come.

Other than that it's a huge step up!

Thanks again,
Kurt