My Q6600 is a little slow - i7 or wait?

tim wrote in post #9299435
Why would you think a new graphics card would make any difference? I have a card supported by CS4.

http://www.tgdaily.com …-and-physics-acceleration

b.han wrote in post #9299546
http://www.tgdaily.com …-and-physics-acceleration

I think you're a few years ahead of yourself.

tim wrote in post #9299680
I think you're a few years ahead of yourself.

Are you sure?

http://kb2.adobe.com/c​ps/404/kb404898.html

Wait, serious question: Photoshop is currently on CS4, right?

CS4 makes limited use of the GPU, but nothing like the article you linked to. The CPU does almost everything, the GPU is used in a very limited way, definitely not for doing calculations. Maybe in CS5, or CS8, you never know, there's lots of potential. For now though it's a very specialised area that mainstream software doesn't use. But for now, your suggestion isn't correct.

That wasn't what I got out of the Adobe article but I rather not continue arguing with you.

If you do intended on upgrading to an i7, go with the 920. Intel's i9 series (6 cores) processor will share the same socket. Doing so will put you in a nice position to potentially upgrade to the i9 if you think it's necessary.

CS4 just accelerates screen operations, not the core logic that takes the time.

Yeah if I get the i7 i'll go with the most future proof socket.

which is 1156 right?

1366.

yep.. yep.. my bad. it's 1366.

The 1156 is effort by Intel to confuse us even more

tim wrote in post #9300111
CS4 just accelerates screen operations, not the core logic that takes the time.

Yeah if I get the i7 i'll go with the most future proof socket.

Not true at all....

Photoshop just accelerates screen ops, but Premiere Pro uses GPU accelerated video decoding IF you have certain nvidia cards. Both are in CS4

I meant Photoshop, not the whole CS4 suite. Not many of us will be doing video with premiere pro I bet!

I'm going to agree with the fact that the majority of the users here are probably going to be using Photoshop only. However, running calculations on a GPU isn't entirely unheard of.

It's quite common in high performance computing, where they can afford write custom code to use their hardware. I'm sure Adobe will eventually, but it's still a newish field, no point making a huge investment in engineer time if it's not going to pay dividends or will need to be redone in a couple of years.