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Sep 30, 2005 23:37 |  #1

Hi all,

Every time I load my pictures, the computer will slow down dramaticlly. Disk Clean up, and re arraging items dosen't help much. It's agravating. very agrivationing:mad: :mad: :mad: . I have a dell Dimension 2400, it's a POS, but it works. I'm not very good at computers (for the good part of them :rolleyes: ) but would you suggest anything on B&H for under $2-300? Thank you very much for your help.

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Sep 30, 2005 23:40 |  #2

ACDCROCKS wrote:
Hi all,

Every time I load my pictures, the computer will slow down dramaticlly. Disk Clean up, and re arraging items dosen't help much. It's agravating. very agrivationing:mad: :mad: :mad: . I have a dell Dimension 2400, it's a POS, but it works. I'm not very good at computers (for the good part of them :rolleyes: ) but would you suggest anything on B&H for under $2-300? Thank you very much for your help.

I'http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …=FetchChildren&​Q=&ci=6513 (external link)

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Do you have room for some more DDR memory? I just added another 512 MB so I'm up to 1GB of DDR. Seems to make most things a little quicker - especially at start-up.


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Sep 30, 2005 23:48 |  #3

I'm looking at building an Athlon 64 3200 with 1gb and a good video card. It's priced at around$1000 to build myself. This is a little extreme, something less would still be good. I am running an old Athlon 1.2ghz zt the moment. It's years old but still works well. Try shutting down unnecessary stuff when you are PP'ing shots


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Oct 01, 2005 00:30 |  #4

I'd say install a secondary hard drive in it to soak up the pictures. dump all the stuff you dont use all the time on that and then just use your normal drive for your opperating sytem to work with.. Give it as much room as you can and it will go faster. Windows uses virtual memroy. More hard drive space when its getting low makes it run better. That'd be the first thing you could do.


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Oct 01, 2005 01:54 as a reply to  @ Nidz's post |  #5

Three years ago I bought a similar computer with 512MB of RAM in it. I attached a film scanner and started running some batch jobs. It was slow as Christmas. Then on a hunch, I increased the RAM up to 1GB, and the scanning batch jobs sped up significantly.

Also, if you happen to be using Photoshop in a certain manner, it can eat up a hell of a lot of that RAM.

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Oct 01, 2005 07:38 as a reply to  @ Desertraptor's post |  #6

Desertraptor wrote:
I'm looking at building an Athlon 64 3200 with 1gb and a good video card. It's priced at around$1000 to build myself. This is a little extreme, something less would still be good. I am running an old Athlon 1.2ghz zt the moment. It's years old but still works well. Try shutting down unnecessary stuff when you are PP'ing shots

That's what I use, it works well. I'll upgrade to dual core and 2GB ram when the prices come down a bit more.


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Oct 01, 2005 07:55 |  #7

upgraded my dell P4 2.8 to 2g sdram made a huge diff for CS2


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Oct 03, 2005 11:49 |  #8
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ACDCROCKS wrote:
Hi all,

Every time I load my pictures, the computer will slow down dramaticlly. Disk Clean up, and re arraging items dosen't help much. It's agravating. very agrivationing:mad: :mad: :mad: . I have a dell Dimension 2400, it's a POS, but it works. I'm not very good at computers (for the good part of them :rolleyes: ) but would you suggest anything on B&H for under $2-300? Thank you very much for your help.

I'http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …=FetchChildren&​Q=&ci=6513 (external link)

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

Don't buy a computer from a camera shop. Dell is usually expensive, unless you get their barebones models. Any "upgrades" or extras are over priced from Dell.

How much hard drive space do you have left? If you have 1GB free or less your computer will have problems because its swap file is up to 1GB in side. You have anti-virus software? If not could be viruses, also get adaware from www.grisoft.com (external link) to clean up your spyware.


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Oct 03, 2005 12:43 |  #9

Did yo check for spware??? They can slow down your computer to a halt. You cango to MS and download their Beta Spyware removal tool or you can try Spyware Search & Destroy either of these are freeware and does a pretty good job.

I was also running with just 512MB and has recently upgrade to 1GB and significantly improve on speed. Also if you have USB 2.0 you can also run two internal Hard Drive and run an external Hard drive. Load your images from the external drive will also improve on speed. This is because the internal drives will be on the same ide bus and will have to share time on it. The other thing is make sure the HDD is not attach to any other device except HDDs.




  
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Oct 03, 2005 12:54 |  #10

On my PC.. after I load PSCS, and an image browser/converter like BB or RSE,. even After I close those apps again,. memory usage is up to about 500MB. I have 1GB of RAm so this means half is taken off the top just to have the image apps I want to use loaded. (by the way XP etc.. only take up about 200MB.. so 300MB is just for these image apps.)

Thus 1Gb of RAM is in my mind the bare minimum I would try to work with.


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