My Computer

I'm a bit of a gear nut as I suspect most everyone here is as well.

Just curious about computer setups so here is mine:

1.Gateway tower E-4600, 1.3GHz Pentium 4, 512mb RAM. Running WinXPSP2
2.Viewsonic 19in widescreen
3.Nvidia TNT2 32mb video card
4.USB/Firewire (two each external connections) PCI card with additional internal connections for two USB pin and one standard USB cable connections as well as one internal Firewire connection
5.In-tower multi card reader (with its own external USB port) hooked into the PCI card above
6.40gb main drive
7.160gb Shared drive
8. 500gb SATA drive (storage/backup) in a Masscool external enclosure, connected to the back of the PCI card
9. 3.5in floppy drive lol
10. Panasonic 16x DVD writer
11. CD-ROM/CD-RW writer
12. HP PSC500 multi-function inkjet printer. I just do prints for samples if at all, otherwise it goes off to Mpix.
13. HP Laserjet 4L B&W printer. For final docs. It only does 150x150 max so no images LOL.
14. Standard baseline DSL package with Bellsouth-now-the-new-ATT

My primary RAW processing (as well as most image adjustments) happens with Canon’s Digital Photo Professional with the latest updates.

Items 2, 4, 5, and 7 were key upgrades LOL.

Ok, obviously nothing to brag about, this thread is more for finding out what I would like to get next

i'd say more RAM, faster processor, video card... but then again i'm a gamer.

This is what I just built
IN WIN IW-F430.BL Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
ASUS P5B LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
BYTECC BT-518 USB 2.0 Card Reader - Retail
EVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video
OCZ GameXStream OCZ600GXSSLI ATX12V 600W Power Supply - Retail
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600 -
2X mushkin 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel
Western Digital 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
SAMSUNG SpinPoint 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model
SYBA PCI USB 2.0 & 1394a combo card
SCEPTRE X20WC-20.1" DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor
Previous purchased 320gb Ext HD

And I love it!!

rckcrlr wrote in post #3453577
This is what I just built
IN WIN IW-F430.BL Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
ASUS P5B LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
BYTECC BT-518 USB 2.0 Card Reader - Retail
EVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video
OCZ GameXStream OCZ600GXSSLI ATX12V 600W Power Supply - Retail
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600 -
2X mushkin 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel
Western Digital 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
SAMSUNG SpinPoint 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model
SYBA PCI USB 2.0 & 1394a combo card
SCEPTRE X20WC-20.1" DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor
Previous purchased 320gb Ext HD

And I love it!!

SEXY!!!

danpass wrote in post #3453426
I'm a bit of a gear nut as I suspect most everyone here is as well.

Just curious about computer setups so here is mine:

1.Gateway tower E-4600, 1.3GHz Pentium 4, 512mb RAM. Running WinXPSP2
2.Viewsonic 19in widescreen
3.Nvidia TNT2 32mb video card
4.USB/Firewire (two each external connections) PCI card with additional internal connections for two USB pin and one standard USB cable connections as well as one internal Firewire connection
5.In-tower multi card reader (with its own external USB port) hooked into the PCI card above
6.40gb main drive
7.160gb Shared drive
8. 500gb SATA drive (storage/backup) in a Masscool external enclosure, connected to the back of the PCI card
9. 3.5in floppy drive lol
10. Panasonic 16x DVD writer
11. CD-ROM/CD-RW writer
12. HP PSC500 multi-function inkjet printer. I just do prints for samples if at all, otherwise it goes off to Mpix.
13. HP Laserjet 4L B&W printer. For final docs. It only does 150x150 max so no images LOL.
14. Standard baseline DSL package with Bellsouth-now-the-new-ATT

My primary RAW processing (as well as most image adjustments) happens with Canon’s Digital Photo Professional with the latest updates.

Items 2, 4, 5, and 7 were key upgrades LOL.

Ok, obviously nothing to brag about, this thread is more for finding out what I would like to get next

How are you getting by on 512 MB RAM? That would suck. I have 2GB, yet to peak it out though, but consistantly run around 1.5GB used.

In2Photos wrote in post #3453642
How are you getting by on 512 MB RAM? That would suck. I have 2GB, yet to peak it out though, but consistantly run around 1.5GB used.

I don't use Vista

danpass wrote in post #3453720
I don't use Vista

[GIFS ARE NOT RENDERED IN QUOTES]

Neither do I. Try using PS and LR with nothing else going and you will soon see.

In2Photos wrote in post #3453746
Neither do I. Try using PS and LR with nothing else going and you will soon see.

With PS7 and DPP its not an issue.

The trial of LR that I used did slow it down a bit though LOL


Nikon's CaptureNX is still the king of resource hogness though. It runs the HDD virtual memory like crazy. I also tried it on a work comp with a 3Ghz P4 and 1gb RAM and it still noticeably bogged that one down.

i build
Asus P5N-E SLI with Intel E6600 with OC cpu, Two 7600GT SLI configuration, 4gig double channel config ram, Western Digital Raptor X 150GB main drive, and two 300gig raid 0, 500gig ext. for backup, Tt Armour jr. case, and Tt Toughpower ps and 9700Zalman cooler...

rckcrlr wrote in post #3453577
This is what I just built
IN WIN IW-F430.BL Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
ASUS P5B LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
BYTECC BT-518 USB 2.0 Card Reader - Retail
EVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video
OCZ GameXStream OCZ600GXSSLI ATX12V 600W Power Supply - Retail
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600 -
2X mushkin 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel
Western Digital 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
SAMSUNG SpinPoint 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model
SYBA PCI USB 2.0 & 1394a combo card
SCEPTRE X20WC-20.1" DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor
Previous purchased 320gb Ext HD

And I love it!!

Looks Good.

What does your memory bandwidth benchmark at?

My editing system(1 of three on the KVM); In Black Lian Li case w/Thermal Take Power Supply
AMD 64 4000+ OC'd to 2.52ghz
2gb Corsair TwinX2048-3200C2PT (DDR1) set at 2-2-2-5-1T
ATI AIW 9600 XT
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-108
Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1712
2 Raptor 36.7gb hard drives striped for the OS and apps
1 Western Digital WDC-WD2000JB
1 Maxtor 160gb

Put this together summer of '04. Still going strong.

I may have to build again..., that Quad core is looking more and more interesting every day.

AMD vs equivalent Intel chip?


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danpass wrote in post #3453426
I'm a bit of a gear nut as I suspect most everyone here is as well.

Just curious about computer setups so here is mine:

1.Gateway tower E-4600, 1.3GHz Pentium 4, 512mb RAM. Running WinXPSP2
3.Nvidia TNT2 32mb video card
6.40gb main drive
7.160gb Shared drive
9. 3.5in floppy drive lol
10. Panasonic 16x DVD writer
11. CD-ROM/CD-RW writer

someone at work just picked up a computer just like yours for $45(at thrift store) and at work , we threw out or gave away better. Those are just to slow to do tons of PS work on. You'll need more ram (2 gigs) and a faster processor to pump out those pictures or you'll go crazy waiting for puter to catch up with you.
now days, computers are cheap and fast. i just bought a dual core with 300 gig sata drive for like $500. I just bought another 300gig for $80? and grabbed an old video card off my previous computer and im good to go.

but dont, and i repeat dont get vista!!

MORE RAM. if you put more ram in there it would make a massive difference in performance, but in general now that is a pretty low spec machine.

so most needs upgrading, so short term more ram would make it like a new machine

Ooh, I love these threads.

I'm a bit of a gaming freak, so a couple of months ago I built this beast:

Intel Core 2 Duo e6600
EVGA 680i motherboard
4gb dual channel corsair pc6400 DDR2 RAM
XFX Nvidia 8800 GTX
Coolermaster real power pro 850w PSU
Antec 900 case
500GB WD hard drive
150gb WD raptor hard drive
Windows XP
Dell 24" widescreen monitor.

It's amazingly fast, figured i deserved an upgrade after using the same machine for nearly 6 years. I think it was worth it, but as I said, im a gaming freak. It does however cope very well with photoshop.