----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Studdert"
Subject: Re: Great info on the monitor how about the CPU?
Some of the just past Intel Core 2 Duo processors seem to be the best price point, great value really, 4GB of RAM can be had for peanuts and will allow the PC to handle even big composite imaging tasks. Go for a large fast drive for your OS (even if you don't use much of it) and add a stripe set using two fast drive for scratch/temp operations. If you're a thrill seeker and are prepared to do a little work "ghosting" your OS to an external drive you could load up the OS on a stripe set, it really does make a huge performance increase (with the downside of making the system half as reliable).
I just went through that and finally decided that it was more important to have a machine that would boot up reliably rather than one that would maybe boot up but be fast if it managed it. My present solution is a single HD for my OS, a stripe drive for Photoshop to play with and a video card with 1gb of ram for Photoshop to take advantage of. It seems to be pretty quick. When Win7 is released I will probably move over to that OS and max out the ram (I think my present board will support 16gb).
William Robb
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