Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, I have been building my own computers for over 20 years now. For an imaging computer nowadays, just keep these things in mind, these are the critical things IMHO: - 2 SSD drives, for the operating system and for the scratch disk - mine are both 128GB, which I find adequate. Other hard drives do not matter too much, just use the sizes/speed you need, and those you can get good prices on. I have two Seagate 5400 rpm 3 TB disks on the main machine. - minimum 32GB RAM, especially if you have to deal with D800E files (-: 64GB is even better. It does not have to be very high spec (expensive) RAM, though - With an eye to the future, buy a motherboard with a high speed Thunderbolt port - it is becoming more common on Windows, and should speed up external transfers considerably. I use an Asus P8Z77 - V Pro/Thunderbolt motherboard, though I have not acquired any Thunderbolt drives yet, my next external drive will be a Thunderbolt one. An additional advantage with Thunderbolt is that they can be daisy chained. - make sure that the capacity of your power supply is large enough to handle all the components, internal and external (many USB devices draw power from the main machine) - The bigger the monitor the better, and one that calibrates well (most monitors do not calibrate well at all), or better still a two monitor system - I use a Dell 24" as the primary monitor, and an ancient Viewsonic as the secondary one. The latter can be any old one that works, it is only used to keep all the controls/palettes windows in Photoshop open, for convenience, and of course, to maximise the image viewing area in the main one. The processor, graphic cards, etc are relatively less important - most mainstream components available nowadays should work well. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > PESO: > > I think I got this link from this group. It's a thorough article on how to > build a PC specifically for Photoshop and other imaging applications. > > > http://www.imagescience.com.au/kb/questions/141/Build+a+powerful+PC+for+Photoshop+and+other+imaging+applications > > I printed off the recommendations, read through them and was ready to order > when I realized it's all in Australia! Does anybody know a similar company > based in the USA that designs computers specifically for Photoshop? > > I think I'm going to get a new computer instead of the M240. > > TIA > > Tina > > -- > Tina Manley > http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >