Im looking to upgrade my exisitng setup as its struggling big time, LR3 causes it to overheat when working with a few files in a folder and previews take a good while to update.
What i have is 3 years old i think.
AM2+ Mobo with SATA, USB 2.0, Firewire (which my 1d2 refuses to work with!), 4x1GB DDR2 slots.
AMD Athlon 64 4800+
4x 1GB PC6400/800Mhz DDR2 Ram
256Mb PCI-e gfx card
cant think of anything else relevant.
Is there anything significant i can upgrade without costing a fortune.
Current thoughts are a better AM2+ processor or should i change mobo for AM3 or Intel? May also open up the option of more or better (DDR3) Ram, but will cost a lot!
Currently running XP which as far as i can gather doesnt support 4Gb of ram? So changing to 7.
Dont know if Gfx card would help things significantly?
In terms of drives i run the OS and programs of a 320Gb Sata.
I have a 500Gb IDE for storage
and copies of every shot on an external 1Tb.
Im buying 2 x 1Tb internal Sata drives and was going to use these to store stuff as its quicker than the external drive.
What are my options? What benefits does the likes of RAID etc have? I dont know what it does or how it works but someone told me its better lol.
Any input appreciated
Cheers Neil
What i have is 3 years old i think.
AM2+ Mobo with SATA, USB 2.0, Firewire (which my 1d2 refuses to work with!), 4x1GB DDR2 slots.
AMD Athlon 64 4800+
4x 1GB PC6400/800Mhz DDR2 Ram
256Mb PCI-e gfx card
cant think of anything else relevant.
Is there anything significant i can upgrade without costing a fortune.
Current thoughts are a better AM2+ processor or should i change mobo for AM3 or Intel? May also open up the option of more or better (DDR3) Ram, but will cost a lot!
Currently running XP which as far as i can gather doesnt support 4Gb of ram? So changing to 7.
Dont know if Gfx card would help things significantly?
In terms of drives i run the OS and programs of a 320Gb Sata.
I have a 500Gb IDE for storage
and copies of every shot on an external 1Tb.
Im buying 2 x 1Tb internal Sata drives and was going to use these to store stuff as its quicker than the external drive.
What are my options? What benefits does the likes of RAID etc have? I dont know what it does or how it works but someone told me its better lol.
Any input appreciated
Cheers Neil
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