A few years ago I invested in an AMD Phenom X3, with 8GB of RAM, and
Darktable flies, until I try to use JPGs, which seem to use 20x more ram
than raws for processing, unless I'm doing exports. A 64bit operating
system is a must. I would suggest to you, get a quad or hex core, when I'm
running processing heavy operation Darktable loves the extra power.
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Bill Yiannakos <[email protected]>wrote:
> I had a system breakdown recently and now, after 5 years (!!) of owning my
> present PC, I am considering a system update...
> Maybe the most demanding software I am now running, is darktable (I'm not
> much of a gamer).
> My current system is: AMD Athlon 64x2 @ 5200+, 3GB DDR2 @ 667 RAM, ASUS
> M2N3 SLI m/b, nVidia 8600GT 512MB DDR2 I am currently running Ubuntu 13.04,
> and I am planning on sticking to this distro.
>
> What you you suggest, so as to see an improvement in the general
> experience of darktable? (export time is not very big now, but when editing
> a raw, each filter manipulation takes some time). I assume that the VGA
> doesn't affect at any way darktable, right?
> How much memory would make a difference? What cpu would you recomend?
> Finally, if I choose more than 4GB of ram, will I need an 64bit system to
> use is in darktable?
>
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