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p.3 #1 · PS CS2 speed demons

henry -you might want to go through that original thread (see first page, link in oln's post) and see if some system matches close to yours. i thought i remembered seeing one with similar specs, but dont remember times.

Jun 10, 2005 at 04:57 PM

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p.3 #2 · PS CS2 speed demons

Wow what a dog I have

1 minute & 40 secs

Athlon XP 2100
1.8 GHz
768 MB of RAM
Windows XP Pro w/ service pack 2

Jun 13, 2005 at 05:21 AM

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p.3 #3 · PS CS2 speed demons

PKuglin wrote:
Eric isn't no more

Bit my dust Mr Hanson!

Dual Xeon 3.2GHZ 4GB raw, raided Raptors 74gb, 2 GB swap assigned to a 2GB ramdisk.

16 seconds. Tried it 3 times, all ~16 seconds and I have had PSCS2 running up for 2 days with bridge.

Can you give a few more details of this configuration? What motherborad? What disk controllers? Did you build or buy from a manufactuer? If so, which one and what model number? I have a friend who is trying to build the fastest PS monster he can and these details would help him, no doubt.

Jun 13, 2005 at 03:30 PM

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p.3 #4 · PS CS2 speed demons

Apple Dual 1.8 G5, 2gb ram, Raptor
30 secs.

IBM T42 1.7ghz, 1gb ram
125 secs.

2.4 Celeron D on Intel mobo, 1.25 gb ram, UATA drives
118 secs.

3.0 Pentium 800FSB, asus mobo, 2gb Dual Channel, Raptor
34 secs.

Jun 13, 2005 at 08:03 PM

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p.3 #5 · PS CS2 speed demons

Hi,

just got my brand new PC up running with this spec:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core 4200+
4Gb High speed RAM
2* 74Gb Raptor disks, one for OS and one for scratch
Win XP prof sp2
PS CS2

Ran the test 2 times, one with 2 CPU's running at 100% clocked in at 22,8 seconds, then I forced Photoshop to run at only one CPU (Used THG Task Assignment Manager), the time I got then was 45,7 seconds.

This result show 2 important features with the AMD dual core implementation: In this test PSCS2 scales 100% when using 2 CPU's, and it perfoms in par with the Opteron dual CPU set up, the Opteron 250 runs at 2.4Ghz and the 4200+ runs at 2.2Ghz explaining the difference between 20 second for the dual Opteron setup Eric showed us vs. my setup. That is good news, since a AMD dual core CPU's easily fit into socket 939 based Motherboards.

Oystein

Jun 30, 2005 at 10:51 PM

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p.3 #6 · PS CS2 speed demons

First Attempt: 35.78 seconds
Second Attempt: 35.75 seconds

System Info
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- Dell Dimension 8400
- Pentium 4 @ 3.0 GHz 800 FSB
- 1 GB DDR@ SDRAM @ 533 MHz
- 160 GB SATA 7200 rpm HDD
- 128 MB Radeon X300
- XP Home
- Photoshop CS2, McAfee Firewall, Anti-Virus, etc + Notepad running

Jul 01, 2005 at 02:08 AM

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p.3 #7 · PS CS2 speed demons

Dell Precision M60, 2GHz Centrino, 2GB RAM, 128MB Video, XP Pro, running at 1920x1200...

73 seconds (same on two runs)

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Jul 01, 2005 at 04:12 AM

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p.3 #8 · PS CS2 speed demons

Albert1000 wrote:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core 4200+
4Gb High speed RAM
2* 74Gb Raptor disks, one for OS and one for scratch
PS CS2

what a joy this would be on OS X!

Jul 01, 2005 at 05:53 AM

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p.3 #9 · PS CS2 speed demons

As a long time PC user, I was ready to jump ship and join the Mac world this spring. However I was really disapointed with the Power Mac upgrade in April, and decided to build my own AMD based dual core machine.

My question, based on your comment, will Tiger be available to x86 machines, or will Apple keep the facinating OS for themselves on their new platform? There should be no other reason than politics, and that would be a shame. The only Personal computer that have survived along the WinTel platform is the Mac.

Jul 01, 2005 at 01:15 PM

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p.3 #10 · PS CS2 speed demons

Excuse my asking - what's so fascinating about OSX? I haven't used it, so am curious about why everyone's raving about it? My machine doesn't seem bad at all - 35.78 seconds, with "just" 1 GB RAM and just 1 HDD. :-)

Jul 01, 2005 at 03:56 PM

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p.3 #11 · PS CS2 speed demons

Why get a stopwatch ready - what's wrong with an egg timer?

Jul 01, 2005 at 06:47 PM

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p.3 #12 · PS CS2 speed demons

anil - to me, it's much more sensibly laid out and very intuitive. i have yet to have a lockup or anything, which is rare for me in the XP world. I was afraid i would spend a lot of time getting up to speed on OS X, but after using it for about a week, i feel fairly comfortable with it. its elegantly designed and implemented. to me, windows seems like a bunch of bandaid fixes on top of each other trying to look elegant. and, i've been using windows literally from the get go...even used DeskView back in the day...ugh!

to me, the ideal marriage would have been Apple and AMD...defeating the forces of Wintel. I have a lot of respect for AMD and their continued attempts at battling the Goliath.

Jul 01, 2005 at 07:59 PM

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p.3 #13 · PS CS2 speed demons

Tiger on a MDD 1.25Mhz dual 2 GB Ram scratch on another disc. 39secs.
Okay but the AMD looks great if only one didn't have to change over every application to PC.
Some are dual platform like Gretag Profile Maker , just move the usb dongle and away it goes.

Jul 02, 2005 at 05:58 AM

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p.3 #14 · PS CS2 speed demons

Apple PowerBook 15" 1.67GHz, 1Gb RAM
72 seconds

Jul 03, 2005 at 05:31 AM

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p.3 #15 · PS CS2 speed demons

Athlon 64 3000+
1gig of ram

At 1.8ghz (stock)
1 min 8 seconds

At 2.7ghz (overclocked)
48 seconds.

Jul 03, 2005 at 06:32 PM

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p.3 #16 · PS CS2 speed demons

ent2b wrote:
anil - to me, it's much more sensibly laid out and very intuitive. i have yet to have a lockup or anything, which is rare for me in the XP world. I was afraid i would spend a lot of time getting up to speed on OS X, but after using it for about a week, i feel fairly comfortable with it. its elegantly designed and implemented. to me, windows seems like a bunch of bandaid fixes on top of each other trying to look elegant. and, i've been using windows literally from the get go...even used DeskView back in the day...ugh!

to me, the ideal marriage would have been Apple and AMD...defeating the forces of Wintel. I have a lot of respect for AMD and their continued attempts at battling the Goliath.

Asim,

You write about Mac/apple like it was a sensation that your system isn't locking up. You must be one of the the very few, or you are just not pushing it hard enough.

If you read enough Mac forums you will be more then familiar that lockups and crashes are quite common

- it isn't a miracle machine!

it is just a computer!!

:-)

on the marriage issue, I totally agreen with you, I am surprised that they didn't go with AMD.

i'll just go back and enjoy my holiday

Henrik

Jul 04, 2005 at 08:19 AM

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p.3 #17 · PS CS2 speed demons

I am surprised that they didn't go with AMD.

Both Mac and Intel are known for two things

1.) Being expensive
2.) Being great multimedia platforms

AMD is known for being cheaper and running games like madmen.

That said, my athlon 64 is a gem :-)

Jul 04, 2005 at 03:13 PM

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p.3 #18 · PS CS2 speed demons

I added a gig of ram and it was no faster

Jul 05, 2005 at 09:56 AM

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p.3 #19 · PS CS2 speed demons

2.8 Ghz dual core processor (LGA 775) on P5WD2 Motherboard, 2 Gb RAM, with primary and secondary 10,000 rpm Raptor drives......

29 seconds.

Jul 06, 2005 at 03:52 AM

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p.3 #20 · PS CS2 speed demons

Interesting. Im only a few seconds slower with P4-3.4 HT 1 gig ram (now 2) 7200 RPM drive..

Jul 06, 2005 at 12:43 PM

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p.3 #21 · PS CS2 speed demons

Marli wrote:
Interesting. Im only a few seconds slower with P4-3.4 HT 1 gig ram (now 2) 7200 RPM drive..

Me too. I don't see a reason to go upto 2 GB in this case, since my 1 GB P4 only took 35.78 seconds, not too far behind all the higher end machines. :-)

Jul 06, 2005 at 02:02 PM

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p.3 #22 · PS CS2 speed demons

Additional RAM will only help if you actually need it. Keep an eye on Efficiency in the Status Bar. If it does not go below 100% while running the test it means that entire process is taking place in RAM (not using the scratch disk which is MUCH slower).

This test process may well be able to be handled in 1 GB RAM (I haven't yet run it myself, plus I already have 2GB); if so adding additional RAM will not matter for this test. If you start working with larger images (or images with many layers) you may find that the Efficiency does drop below 100% and at that time more RAM will probably help.

After a quick look at the image I doubt seriously that any RAM issues would apply here since the image is only 87.6KB in size. In fact you could very likely run this test on a 512 MB or smaller system and not see RAM issues.

Jul 06, 2005 at 02:35 PM

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p.3 #23 · PS CS2 speed demons

Dwight,
While it is true the image size on disk is only 87.6KB - the 1st step you resize it to 2000 pixels so the size grows. However, I believe 1GB of RAM is enough to hold everything.

Jul 06, 2005 at 03:34 PM

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p.3 #24 · PS CS2 speed demons

Thanks Phil, I missed that in my quick glance!

Jul 06, 2005 at 03:55 PM

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p.3 #25 · PS CS2 speed demons

I don't have PS CS2 yet but using CS1:

OS X 10.3.9
2.5 GB Ram
Dual 2 G5
Stock 160 GB HD
20" and 17" Apple LCD panels
3 External Firewire Drives and 1 Lacie (500 GB) FW800 External drive

31 seconds

While these were running in the background:
Firefox
Dantz Retrospect
Text Edit
MS IE
ITunes
Illustrator CS
Yahoo Messenger
GMail status
and streaming KBIG 104.3 through my speakers

Jul 06, 2005 at 11:40 PM


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