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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - May 10, 2007 - 11:52pm PT
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Where oh where are all those !@#$%^& bad-ass, over-clocked home-built PC's I keep hearing about?
Minus 10 seconds should be a piece of cake, no???
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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May 10, 2007 - 11:53pm PT
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right Shack but are you sure the need for scratch in Photoshop is not decreased by running more than two? I mean since the app itself can use 2? What do you think?
ok I re-did the test and...
as layer one it took 1:17 w/ my old school tank of a PC.
good fun.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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May 10, 2007 - 11:56pm PT
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that Benchmark for the Mac you posted is smokin' I submit the speed of the memory on the Mac may have something to do with it.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - May 10, 2007 - 11:58pm PT
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667 Mhz memory is fairly common, is it knott?
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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May 10, 2007 - 11:59pm PT
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it is fairly common - 2006/7 technology is way quick for sure.
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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May 11, 2007 - 12:02am PT
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Knock it off you guys. This is getting embarrassing. Go climbing.
Please.
Mal
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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May 11, 2007 - 12:05am PT
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Hardman,
I built some PC's that I'm sure would beat that time,
unfortunately they do knott have Photoshop on them!
2.66 Ghz. Core 2 Duo w/ Zalman CPU Cooler
EVGA 680i Motherboard (SLI ready w/ 3 pci-E slots!)
2 Gigs Corsair Dominator PC9136 Dual Channel Ram (runs at 1142Mhz!)
WD 150 Raptor X Sata Hard Drive (fastest Sata drive made)
Nvidia Geforce 8800 Video Card w/ 762 MB Ram on the card
I could overclock the crap out of it and probably push the CPU to 3.4 Ghz stable!!
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - May 11, 2007 - 12:06am PT
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Excuses, excuses...Post up or shut up, Shack! ;-)
Edit: Mal - admit it...you're having as much fun here as we are...hell, you ran the test, did you knott?
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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May 11, 2007 - 12:09am PT
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Good post JLP...
If I knew how to type,
I might have went into as much detail,
but you did it for me.
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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May 11, 2007 - 12:10am PT
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I wanna play! how do I get BBEdit to run this filter?
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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May 11, 2007 - 12:14am PT
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funny!
my bottom line sentiment on my own (personal) computer usage is that the thing is a tool, like a shovel, and as long as it digs the holes I need in a manner suitable to my style the shovel is working and I do not need a bigger one.
If my cave man PC breaks, I can fix it and, with overnight FedEx from Newegg - have it back up and running quickly and for minimum bucks - this is why I choose build, not for some theoretical reason, but because all systems fail: it's a when not an if.
The question about memory useage etc. is a really interesting one.
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Loomis
climber
Blava nie, ty kokot!
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May 11, 2007 - 12:16am PT
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Just woke up from a nap and checked the thread, still waiting for a PC (Piece of Crap) to beat my time... Lots of dogs barking, but no bite! Ha ha ha...
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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May 11, 2007 - 12:17am PT
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OH and yes 667Mhz Ram is very common right now.
800Mhz is the max unless you overclock or get the EVGA 680i MB...it was developed in parallel
with the Corsair Dominator RAM.
The MB recognizes the ram when you put it in and automatically
sets the CAS latency times and the speed to 1142Mhz!!
And corsair just came out with an even faster one that runs at 1250Mhz!!
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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May 11, 2007 - 12:22am PT
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When I build my next one I'll either go w/ 2 gigs (non-ECC)
or put the whole thing on a Tyan Tomcat board w/ 4 gigs ECC w/ a dual core Opty - think that would work fine.
RAM drives for the Photoshop scratch disk are all the rage, makes the 2 gig approach look even better.
Loomis that benchmark time you got is sick.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 11, 2007 - 12:35am PT
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125 seconds (2 minutes, 5 seconds)
1.5 GHz PowerPC G4
2 GB DDR SDRAM
Mac OS X 10.4.9
Photoshop CS2 9.0.2
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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May 11, 2007 - 12:39am PT
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For true power in a PC,
you need to jump to 2 or more physical procesors.
It used to be more common but now you see it only in servers.
(mostly because you need to run NT)
Ray are you talking about something like this? hehehe
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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May 11, 2007 - 12:44am PT
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What do I win?
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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May 11, 2007 - 12:44am PT
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Athlon Dual Core 64 X2 3800+, 2GB RAM, Nvidia 7600GT w/256MB.
No Photoshop, but what's your framerate at 1600x1200 resolution in FEAR?
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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May 11, 2007 - 12:50am PT
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Yeah, that's what I'm trying to say Steve!
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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May 11, 2007 - 12:54am PT
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actually Shack - I dig that multiple proc stuff but was thinking a single dual-core jobbie would get me down the road in fine style -
if I was going dual proc, however, I'd sink two of these mothers in it and be content the thing would crank like a fiend:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103625
that would be sick.
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