Upgrading to 8Gb RAM

[vietdeity86]

What's a good graphic application for 64bit that I could use to make advertisements and whatnot ? Apparently coreldraw isn't 64 bit compatible, and something with vectors maybe? If not that's ok, suggest me some stuff. Adobe photoshop I'm not too familiar with tho and it seems harder to learn. Lets see what you guys can recommend.

 

[jt001]

Somebody needs more coffee in order to make them see clearer/ read better I guess. I lost count how many times she said she's into Photoshop and not gaming...sigh...

Everyone in the world is a gamer, and there's really no reason to use a PC for anything other than playing video games, don't you know anything :roll:

 

[elpresidente2075]

I suggest just learning Photoshop. I have only a passing knowledge in using photoshop, and I totally hear ya in that its really hard to learn, but it has the most industry support (in my experience) and of course thats what more people are familiar with. If you want a free alternative, you could try The Gimp, but since you're having a hard time with photoshop, I think you'd not be too interested.

As far as vectors, I haven't done any real work with them, so I don't know specifically any vector editing programs that are really awesome, but I saw my friend using a really slick one recently (free, open source, 64bit SUSE).

GL

 

[jamesjones_det]

Ok douche bags I'm also saying with this comment " if all you are doing video/photo editing with gaming on the side I would get the slower memory and save $90 bucks" Save $90 bucks if you don't do gaming.

Maybe YOU should learn to read then entire post too. Thanks bye.

 

[aBg_rOnGak]

Are you really replying to me :?:

 

[aBg_rOnGak]

Everyone in the world is a gamer, and there's really no reason to use a PC for anything other than playing video games, don't you know anything :roll:

And where in the world did you get that "everyone". Come on, be realistic, even though there's a lot of gamers here, me included, there's also a lot of professional graphics designer etc that certainly need powerful Windows based PC (some might use Mac, but I don't know anything about Mac, so I'll just shut up about it)

 

[elbert]

I'm thinking about upgrading my memory to 8Gb (from 4Gb).

I have two choices available, both from Corsair. One set has memory timings of 5-5-5-15 and the other 5-5-5-18 and I could save myself around £45 (~$90) by going for the slightly slower timings.

Would I see much difference in performance by going for the slightly slower chips???

Whats your current RAM timing? If its the slower then the better timing would be memory would be worthless. Anyway I would suggest buying the cheaper RAM and use the savings for an upgrade to your HD.

 

[jt001]

And where in the world did you get that "everyone". Come on, be realistic, even though there's a lot of gamers here, me included, there's also a lot of professional graphics designer etc that certainly need powerful Windows based PC (some might use Mac, but I don't know anything about Mac, so I'll just shut up about it)

It was sarcasm, because look at how many people are making gaming references when the OP never once mentioned anything about being a gamer. People forget that there are other uses for a computer besides playing a game.

 

[mallen]

Hi Carol,
The slower speed RAM should be just fine. I'm running 8GB DDR400 at 3-3-3, and my motherboard suggests that if I want to go above 16GB, I should drop to DDR333, which I guess is slower in some way.

I noticed you have all of your partitions on one array. If you were to install an extra hard disk, on a separate channel, preferably scsi, and dedicate that to your scratch drive you should see a significant improvement. I don't use Adobe CS, however, I do use a scratch drive, in fact I moved my page file to it. It's a 15K U320 SCSI drive on it's own channel. I noticed a big improvement in all round performance when I did this.

Hope this helps.

 

[aBg_rOnGak]

Ah...sorry...silly me 😳