Power consumption and heat generation are not significant concerns with the current systems unless you intend to overclock the CPU or rack the systems with a bunch of others (Cooling is often at a premium in Datacentres). For a desktop system indended for image processing buy as much CPU power and RAM as you can afford and a big PSU (So you've got plenty of power for extra drives). I'd recommend whatever Quad-core processor has the first big pricing gap above it (The top-end processors have a premium attached, if you look for the premium in the pricing and buy just below where it kciks in, you'll usually have the best bang for the buck).
-Adam On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > The time to upgrade my home PC has come. My main workflow revolves around > LightRoom 2.1 and I intend to keep using LR in the future. > > The dilemma is which processor to buy - dual core or quad core. My brother > (who happens to be top grade sys admin) suggests that I buy dual core > processor because of its low heat generation and low power consumption. He > suggests that dual core is optimal balance. However he admits to have no > experience with applications such as LR. > > Thence the question. Is there any of you who was using dual core and > upgraded to quad core and noticed significant LR performance improvements? > In general, what do you suggest - dual core or quad core? > > The motherboard that I am going to buy will support both dual and quad core > so that I could theoretically upgrade in the future should I decided that > dual core is not strong enough. But I'd rather optimize this criterion up > front. > > All help will be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Boris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
