Hi folks I'm building a new PC. I'll be using Poser and many other Graphic apps. Like Poser,IE, Bryce, Flash, Painter, Lightwave, 3D Max and many others. But, where whould you say I could speed up Photoshop CS up the most for the money. This looks good to me Again, for the Money: OS: XP Mobo: Intel 800mz CPU: Intel, 3.0GHz 800MHz FSB, 2mb HT, RAM: 2GB 533 DDR2 PC2-4200 DIMM Video: GeForce 6600 PCI Express 16X Should I go with a faster Chip or more RAM, "both" or better Video Card? Is Rendering in Photoshop CS all CPU for the most part or is that not so? Thank you for any help.

Euhm, The specs you are showing hear are all good! Better? This machine rocks already... It also depends on what you are willing to do with it. Are you an experienced user and are you doing this professionally or just for school/hobby... If I could only get me a machine like this for now, but I don't have the budget. And rendering is mostly always RAM based! But again this machine rocks!

Thanks, I've been working on PCs "Music" starting in the 1980s. Well I'm now Web Program Developer and I also do Marketing, Video, Audio and now Starting to do more Graphics and soon some 3D work. So I guess I need something on a low end pro level. My Studio is around 5 years or so old AMD XP 1.9 CS crashing when 3D. Also very slow..... It's really time for this new PC... I'm thinking of going with a P4 3.6 800 2mb.. A lot of folks are telling me CPU for 3d. But what about CS.. is it more CPU or RAM? Thank you for your help.

Well, you need both actually. I don't know specific for Photoshop (2D) but for 3D the most important thing for rendering is the RAM! Put as much in as you can! (2 gig is good already). But most ppl have their 3D renders professionally done by another standalone machine or a renderpark for high quality stuff... If you do this professionally, I would advice you to also keep the other AMD machine for normal work (or just in case). 3D rendering is a time consuming thing and you can't work on the machine while rendering. eg. I worked on an assignment which had to be 2minutes and there we needed to render some hours for only 1 frame (knowing 24FPS). SO I had to make a "still" movie or get it rendered on a renderpark (extern). Keep that in mind! Hope this clears things out a bit...

Yes, Thanks, I'll build two boxes one to develop and I'll Build a second to help out with the Rendering. On the second box same set up. Should I go duel processors 3.6s for rendering. Will CS use duel processors. Thanks for your help

I'm not quite sure bout dual processors, normally I would say yes, since a renderfarms uses a network to render out. Netwerkrendering becomes interisting when you have several frames. I wouldn't make any further costs on dual processors, since it's rather expensive. I would just make sure to have 2 64bit pc's if costs isn't a direct problem. But beware of the graphical card you use. Normal game cards are not the best cards to model on. But those cards are really expensive. I wouldn't go useless high in costs again here. First play with it, and if you feel necessarely to get a second pc, buy one. You can still render on nights when not working. 3dsMax even offers a tool to get you updated on frames which are rendered (via e-mail) Photoshop isn't that hard referring to 3d animation creations... So if it works for 3d it definatly will work for 2d!