Hi,
I've enjoyed Tom's Hardware website for years but just joined the Forumz and this is my 1st post! My question is about what effect, if any, the speed of the Graphics processor has on the speed of display of huge multi-page PDF files. I'm creating large PDF's with as many as 350 pages. When I have to do any editing or insertions Adobe Pro brings up a very large number of thumbnails. Being from the old days of Vacumn Tube computers and CRT's I call this painting. Anyway, I'm guessing the key to this is the transfer rate from the HD (I put the files I'm working with on a pair of 10,000 RPM WD Raptor's in Raid 1) I'm not a gamer and am using a Evga 6600GT w/128Mb DDR2 RAM Video Card. I was thinking about moving to a Gigabyte/ASUS 7600GT 256 Mb DDR3 RAM fanless design for less noise and more speed. My question is does anyone think this would make this tedious PDF thumbnail "painting" any faster? I've listed my system specs. below to see if anyone sees any glaring bottlenecks!
Regards,
stuffinder
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium
AMD 64X2 4200+
EVGA 6600GT 128MB Video Card
System Disk 2 WD 74GB 10,000 RPM Raptor's in RAID 1 (SilImage 3114)
Storage Disk 200GB Maxtor
Backup Disk 400GB Samsung SATA (Nvidia)
Hiper 580W PS
Antec Sonata w/1500RPM Silenx 120mm Exhaust Fan
Winows XP Pro SP2
I've enjoyed Tom's Hardware website for years but just joined the Forumz and this is my 1st post! My question is about what effect, if any, the speed of the Graphics processor has on the speed of display of huge multi-page PDF files. I'm creating large PDF's with as many as 350 pages. When I have to do any editing or insertions Adobe Pro brings up a very large number of thumbnails. Being from the old days of Vacumn Tube computers and CRT's I call this painting. Anyway, I'm guessing the key to this is the transfer rate from the HD (I put the files I'm working with on a pair of 10,000 RPM WD Raptor's in Raid 1) I'm not a gamer and am using a Evga 6600GT w/128Mb DDR2 RAM Video Card. I was thinking about moving to a Gigabyte/ASUS 7600GT 256 Mb DDR3 RAM fanless design for less noise and more speed. My question is does anyone think this would make this tedious PDF thumbnail "painting" any faster? I've listed my system specs. below to see if anyone sees any glaring bottlenecks!
Regards,
stuffinder
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium
AMD 64X2 4200+
EVGA 6600GT 128MB Video Card
System Disk 2 WD 74GB 10,000 RPM Raptor's in RAID 1 (SilImage 3114)
Storage Disk 200GB Maxtor
Backup Disk 400GB Samsung SATA (Nvidia)
Hiper 580W PS
Antec Sonata w/1500RPM Silenx 120mm Exhaust Fan
Winows XP Pro SP2