Graphics Card & Photoshop
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- Nairn
This is probably a ridiculous question, but.. does the quality of graphics card (or just plain having one) affect the speed of Photoshop? See, I bought a cheap, temporary PC until I can afford something.. decent. It generally works fine, but Photoshop is Monitor-smashingly slow.
The PC's spec is 'ok' - 128mb, 800mhz Celeron, a large enough hd, but it's only got an on-board graphics chip. Does that really matter? (also: it's winXP, and Pshop 7)
I ask because my old 266mhz, 64mb with crappy ATI rage card seems to work faster!!
annoying thing is, I only bought the pc for Photoshop!!
- Nairn0
..or could it be the Celeron..?
- Nairn0
*ahem?*
- ry0
it's probably the celeron and the lack of ram. In photoshop on the status bar at the bottom left click the arrow and chose efficiency. When you do make changes to the file watch this. It tells you hoe much scratch disc your using.
- ry0
throw in some more ram it's cheap and you can probably change it over to your new computer when you get one.
- Nairn0
Shit. I'm living in the past here - 128mb always used to do the trick?!
Thankyou kindly, Ry..
- ry0
ya I know my laptop needs 180 megs ram just idleing under winXP. Does anyone know if this is common or what/if you can do anything about that?
- mitsu0
"probably the celeron and the lack of ram"
wow, 128.... put in two, that's (2) sticks of 512 and then you'll be rockin. 3 if you have enough slots and go AMD for processor. it's super cheap and super fast. my load time for XP is insanely fast! a good video card helps too!
- Nairn0
Yeah, I get the picture - i need to buy another computer, don't I?
:)
- toqueboy0
XP is a RAM hog...that's your problem...you need at least 128 just to run XP decently...let alone other appz ontop of that...
good news is RAM is cheap cheap cheap... go buy a stick of 512 for 150 and you're laughing