Yeah, that'd fly. The biggest problem I have up here in the north-west is keeping the damn things cool. Mine runs at 50c with no case covers and 5 fans in an air-conditioned room. Doesn't get all that much hotter than that though because of all the fans and good ventilation. I have thought about water-cooling, but this seems like more trouble than it's worth, with the added risk of a leak!
Although, I would like a dual processor system one of these days... Cheers Shaun Dr. Shaun Canning Cultural Heritage Services 11 Lawrence Way Karratha, Western Australia, 6714 0414-967644 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.heritageservices.com.au -----Original Message----- From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 21 November 2004 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Very OT: Upgrading computer for digital On 21 Nov 2004 at 7:40, Shaun Canning wrote: > Rob has hit the nail on the head here. The largest bottleneck in any > system is the storage system (i.e. hard drive). Getting data on and > off your hard drive will slow any system down. I run 7200 rpm Seagate > Barracudas with 8mb buffers. > These are about the fastest parallel IDE (ATA) drives around. Newer > serial ATA drives will run quicker, but not significantly. > > The upside of this is that your system will be strangled by the HDD > read/write times no matter what you do. I run a 3 year old Athlon > over-clocked to run at > 1.63 GHz with 512mb RAM, with 2 HDD. The second HDD is used as a > scratch disk for PS. It flies through PS without any dramas. I am using PS CS. Precisely why I put way more cash into my storage sub-systems than my CPU when building my latest audio/graphics work-station. I am running a pair of 10kRPM SATA 150 drives in RAID 0 config on a dedicated high performance RAID card. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
