In message <canw0uc9ytwaghlx_4emkks3idwpkukql-+ddusv9-5gbbwx...@mail.gmail.com> on Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:43:11 +0200, Bill Yiannakos <[email protected]> said:
billyiannakos> I had a system breakdown recently and now, after 5 billyiannakos> years (!!) of owning my present PC, I am considering a billyiannakos> system update... billyiannakos> Maybe the most demanding software I am now running, is billyiannakos> darktable (I'm not much of a gamer). My current system billyiannakos> is: AMD Athlon 64x2 @ 5200+, 3GB DDR2 @ 667 RAM, ASUS billyiannakos> M2N3 SLI m/b, nVidia 8600GT 512MB DDR2 I am currently billyiannakos> running Ubuntu 13.04, and I am planning on sticking to billyiannakos> this distro. billyiannakos> billyiannakos> What you you suggest, so as to see an improvement in billyiannakos> the general experience of darktable? (export time is billyiannakos> not very big now, but when editing a raw, each filter billyiannakos> manipulation takes some time). I assume that the VGA billyiannakos> doesn't affect at any way darktable, right? How much billyiannakos> memory would make a difference? What cpu would you billyiannakos> recomend? Finally, if I choose more than 4GB of ram, billyiannakos> will I need an 64bit system to use is in darktable? Memory is the biggest thing here. 4GB is the suggested minimum amount of RAM to run darktable (see the manual: http://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch07.html.php). If you run other things (like, say, a browser with many tabs) on the system, the more the better. Of course, you can counter that with sufficient amount of swap, but you have to be prepared for that being used ;-) For more than 4GB, I'd definitely start using a 64-bit kernel. Also, GPU memory needs to be 1GB or more for darktable to take advantage of the GPU (ref: the manual: http://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch07s02s03.html.php) Cheers, Richard -- Richard Levitte [email protected] http://richard.levitte.org/ "Life is a tremendous celebration - and I'm invited!" -- from a friend's blog, translated from Swedish ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
