Simon, Forget trying to upgrade this machine - buy an off the shelf workstation from Dell or HP. You will ideally need twin Xeon processors, a min of 2Gb of RAM and ideally SCSI hard drives to work with these files in a sensible timeframe and to give you future upgradeability A machine with a RAM capacity of say 4GB can be purchased now with 1GB Ram and you can add more as you need / can afford it. Dell's machines are better value for money than a homebuild, but their Ram is expensive. You will get 3 yrs on site support included in the price. A workstation is a far higher performance machine than say a Dimension, but they are designed to reliable and to be upgraded. If you go SCSI (big performance gain), DO NOT mix scsi and IDE drives in the same machine - go for small ultra fast SCSI drives internally and get a large Firewire / USB 2 external drive for storage. NickWB.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of jon press > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 11:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PRODIG] Upgrading PC for photoshop > > > > I'd like some advice please on upgrading my PC, to > work with 350mb 16bit files in photoshop, my > motherboard and processor are not up to the job, and I > only have 500mb ram, and my 15gig hard drive is at its > limit. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
