Your system build!

[Mister Maggot 0]

Sounds like a nice box of tricks. Be sure to make sure there is ambient air around it, because it will probably be pretty hot. What does HP say about ambient air space?

With all the CPU power, what are you planning to do with it? Sounds like a nice multi-media system for editing movies.

With a good enough heatsink, there's not really any air reqs. A good friend of mine's build w/ a hexcore Phenom oc'd to 4.Xghz ran 4 degrees over room temp under a moderate load.

[Ndragonawa 37]

Oh and if case your wondering about my plans I'm getting 3 of these HDDs (gonna RAID 0 'em) and this graphics card.

Sorry what HDDs are you getting? the hyperlink leads to the graphic card, and the graphics card link is broken. And I know what you mean about the hard drives! Windows rated me around 6.8 because of the hard drive alone.

...ACK!! Whoops, sorry 'bout that, it's all fixed now. Anyway, you got 6.8? I keep on getting 5.9...

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=17041426

I should be getting that once I turn 16 and get a job in October.

@Nonny; How are you using a 2.0? My 3.0 external hdd crawls loading anything on the CS5 suite..

2.0 is fast enough for me. Remember that the main purpose of the auxiliary disks is archival. My 500GB main disk has enough space and speed (SATA) for anything I do. I don't buy hardware to go fast, just to do what I need. At the moment, all my external drives are off-line. Powered off, in fact.

Let me suggest you investigate the GIMP. It was designed by good people who were not interested in overloading the program with a bunch of slow junk. You can get plugins for it to support stuff from CS. On my new version of the O/S, I am planning to run Blender.

[Mister Maggot 0]

I've used GIMP before, never got the hang of it. :s

The whole reason for putting the suite on the external drive was to free some space up on my disk; only got 120~gb/500gb for Windows on my main disk and the suite was 14~gb.

  Edited April 19, 2011 by Mister Maggot  

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I've used GIMP before, never got the hang of it. :s

The whole reason for putting the suite on the external drive was to free some space up on my disk; only got 120~gb/500gb for Windows on my main disk and the suite was 14~gb.

Well, the main issue with any application is how is it after you've got it into memory. I am not doing any major art or animation, and I find the GIMP does the job for me. It is not worth running CS under wine, which is iffy and CS is not free.

If you have any real interest in the GIMP there is a very good tutorial available as PDF, HTML, or paper called 'Grokking the GIMP'.

[Katman 0]

current machine

Giga-byte GA890FXA-UD5 MB

AMD 1100T CPU

16 GB DDR3 1600 Corsair Vengence Memory

AMD 6850 HD Graphics

Creative Titanium HD sound car

4 Western Digital Black HD's 640 GB running in Raid 10

HP 2310 Monitor

WEI cpu 7.6

memory 7.8

graphics 7.7

hard drives 6.3

[hyped_up_boy 15]

Desktop

Processor: AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition overclocked to 3.6GHz (stock 3.2)

Mobo: Asus M4A87TD Evo

Graphics: XFX Radeon HD5770

Memory: 4GB DDR3-1600

Hard Drive: 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Most demanding program: probably Battlefield Bad Company 2..

Rating: 5.9

Only cost me about $1000. Thinking of upgrading my PSU (crappy OCZ 600W) and my graphics some time in the future... maybe to a 6950 or an amd hd7***..

Notebook

Toshiba Satellite Pro M300

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 @ 2.0GHz

Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD3470

Memory: 3GB

Hard Drive: 250GB

OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

Resolution: 1280x800

Battery Life: 2 - 2.5 hours

The battery life is the only thing that's pushing me towards getting a new notebook. Newer notebooks can achieve 5-6 hours, and Macbooks can get 7-10. If I take mine to school I have to bring the adapter.

[LastTrueChamp 196]

NZXT Tempest Case

Intel Core i5 750 Processor

Intel Extreme Series DP55KG Mother Board

EVGA GTX 280 GPU

4GB OCZ DDR3 Dual Channel Memory

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB Hard Drive

Apevia 900W Warlock Power Supply