Comments on: Your System Specs for a CS4 Upgrade

By: dual video card

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By: Roman Johnston

Roman Johnston — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:21:50 +0000

Currenty running an AMD 2400+ Dualcore (about 4 year old processor) with 3GB of ram on Vista Ultimate 64bit OS. It is getting a little long in the tooth, so I just ordered some parts (which are being shipped as I write this).

New PC specs:
AMD Phenom II x4 905e CPU (65w quadcore that is pretty fast, but green too) ECS Black A785GM-M motherboard, and 8GB of DDR3 1333 (PC10600) memory. I have a copy of Windows 7 RC1 I will be using and have 2 raptor drives (10,000RPM each) 1 for WIndows Cache, and the other for Photoshop Cache. For a green machine I am thinking it will be quite zippy. Not an i7, but pretty fast none the less.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:05:29 +0000

Im just about to spec a new PC to rum CS4 on can anyone reccomend what would be the ultimate system please
many thx
mark

By: Mehigh

Mehigh — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:23:24 +0000

Is Photoshop CS4 performing better on a quad-core compared to a dual-core ?

(eg. Photoshop CS3 runs faster on 3.0Ghz dual-core rather than on a 2.8Ghz quad-core)

By: shadowcallmedia.com » Blog Archive » Adobe Announces CS4

shadowcallmedia.com » Blog Archive » Adobe Announces CS4 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:46:30 +0000

[...] list for Photoshop CS4. Layers Magazine also has a Learning Center for the new CS4. Check out the system requirements for CS4. Read a CS4 detailed review here. Top 10 new features in [...]

By: Likah

Likah — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:18:08 +0000

Matt has a Dell (and a Mac) but he’s still got one!

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:30:25 +0000

Running Vista 64 with a quad core (q6600) 8 gig of ram, RAID 0 for the apps, and a 10K rpm scratch disk.
File sizes range from 230 megs to 1.8 gigs
Also run Lightroom 2. I just installed the 2.1 update and it has picked up a bit of speed. Running 500gig esata external drives for backups

By: egower

egower — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:50:22 +0000

I’d love it if you went with the Dell. It sure would be nice for us pc users to be represented by one of the Photoshop Guys.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:39:21 +0000

Hey RC,
I just order photoshop cs4. I am using a mac powerpc 1.6ghz. With 4gigs of ram. My graphic card is a ati GPA pro9600. It is a openGL 2.0., smart shader 2.0, smoothvision 2.1, AGP supported, 256ddr memory. AGP x4 and X8.
Will this support photoshop cs4??

Thanks

Mike

By: Supes

Supes — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:36:29 +0000

Mac Freak: Not true – actually Vista 64-bit (which I run) can utilize up to 128GB of RAM. If you run a 32-bit version the actual useable barrier is ~3GB and not 4GB.

By: Likah

Likah — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:05:21 +0000

Great topic, RC! Very useful info!
FYI: New Mac Book Pros are rumored to come out around Oct. 14.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/the_new_macbook_pros_are_coming

By: Mike Paterson

Mike Paterson — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:53:53 +0000

R.C.,

Could you go into a little more detail on your remote firewire drives? What kind of drives are you using. I’m assuming your using firewire 800, is that correct? What are you thoughts on eSATA? What do you have in the way of internal drives if you are working off the external ones?