CS5 PC

I built a nice high end PC about 5 years ago with 2.4Ghz dual cores, 2GB memory, Nvidia 7800GT video, and it's been treating me nice ever since. This is the longest I've gone without upgrading, but the time is coming for me to get a new quad core+ system. Actually if I had another couple gigs of memory I would be fine for a while longer.

Anyway, I've been running the Adobe CS4 Suite since it came out, and it performs really well, but I'm drooling at some of the new CS5 features. I've been putting off getting it until I upgrade, but I was wondering is CS5, specifically Photoshop, going to be much more of a system hog than CS4? Could I run PS CS5 well on this setup?

I'm running Windows 7 x64 Ultimate.

Thanks guys.

drisley wrote in post #11485792
I built a nice high end PC about 5 years ago with 2.4Ghz dual cores, 2GB memory, Nvidia 7800GT video, and it's been treating me nice ever since. This is the longest I've gone without upgrading, but the time is coming for me to get a new quad core+ system. Actually if I had another couple gigs of memory I would be fine for a while longer.

Anyway, I've been running the Adobe CS4 Suite since it came out, and it performs really well, but I'm drooling at some of the new CS5 features. I've been putting off getting it until I upgrade, but I was wondering is CS5, specifically Photoshop, going to be much more of a system hog than CS4? Could I run PS CS5 well on this setup?

I'm running Windows 7 x64 Ultimate.

Thanks guys.

Content-Aware as well as larger file processing will be slower with only 2gigs of ram.
I just upgraded my PC with the Intel 3.3 GHz - 980X 6 core Extreme CPU, 6 gigs of the new ram (3 stick kit) on Intel's DX58SO motherboard with windows 7 Ultra 64 bit.
I really like the speed, but the 5DMKII files can even slow this set-up down, a little

The new boards, processors and ram have eliminated the FSB, allowing fast ram throughput.

Thanks drdiesel1.
I'm going to research that motherboard too. It's SO hard to keep up with all the new chipsets!

drisley wrote in post #11486125
Thanks drdiesel1.
I'm going to research that motherboard too. It's SO hard to keep up with all the new chipsets!

I only use Intel processors and motherboards. Everything has a 3 year warranty and the boxed processor comes with the heat sink and fan

If you are running Win 7/64 bit you REALLY need more memory. I would add another 4 gig, minimum.

Wow, running Win 7 with 2 gb of RAM - I can guarantee you're using the pagefile while running CS4 - and that definitely slows things down.

Newegg has the G.Skill 2x4gb DDR3 1333 right now for 89.99 before tax with a $10 off code: EMCZNNY22 (I bought a set around Thanksgiving and it's been working fine - ran a few overnight Memtest on them to stress-test them, and no problems so far).

His machine is most likey using DDR2 or older.

Thanks for the info guys. Yeah, I'm not taking advantage of the 64 bit OS, but after running the 32 bit OS for a year initially (since the beta) I decided I might as well try the 64 bit OS before I upgraded. In fact, I've been running W7 for 2 years now, 1 year with each 32/64 bit, and they both run the same even with 2GB of memory. I was curious how drivers and software would play with the new 64 bit OS and for a year it hasn't been a problem at all.

I have an Asus A7n8X Deluxe with 2GB of DDR2. I theoretically CAN add another 2GB (if I drop timings), but it wouldn't be worth it. Definitely do the upgrade. I will check out Newegg, but being in Canada it might not be worth it (will check anyway).

Initially CS4 was paging a lot but I lowered the amount of memory used by PS to 30% last year, and it's been running nice and smooth ever since. I'm sure it's still paging, but I routinely stitch together 20-100 picture panoramas without many problems (using 10Mp , 16 bit Tiffs from Raw ) I just do something else while it's stitching, like surf the net or watch some TV.

I like the 3 year warranty and I never overclock, so an included hsf is definitely all I need (and less hassle for me).

Sort of slightly off topic, are there any i7 motherboards out there that support USB 3.0, SATA3 (6Gb), AND full speed PCI-Express (x16)? Most of the ones I've looked at say you have to throttle down the video card slot if you want to use USB 3.0 and SATA 3 (more of a futureproof question).

I wouldn't bother with SATA3. There isn't a drive out there than can approach the bandwidth of SATAII. Hell, even SATA1 is barely slower than the curent consumer drives out there.

There are Mboards that support USB3. I had an order in for a MB, CPU and memory but cancelled it before it shipped. Came to my senses that my current system is perfectly fine

Can't remember the model number but it was an Asus.

There will be SSDs that will surpass SATA1, and definitely there are SSDs in RAID that already surpass SATA1.

Worth it to futureproof (seeing as how he kept his last system for 5 years).

solara wrote in post #11487894
There will be SSDs that will surpass SATA1, and definitely there are SSDs in RAID that already surpass SATA1.

Worth it to futureproof (seeing as how he kept his last system for 5 years).

Yes, this is what I was thinking... once again building the highest quality system I can afford to last me another few years at least (I used to rebuild my system every year prior to this last build, then started spending my money on cameras )