primesuspect
9 Oct 2006, 5:03am
I love these threads. I know I could spend 2 hours doing this myself, but I love having the benefit of a collective community of brains ensuring that I get the best of the best for my exact needs :D
I need a system that is geared towards pre-press and graphic design. Here are my key criteria:
dual core
at least 2gb of ram (maybe 4gb)
dual dvi output
fast hard drives
Basically, this system needs a lot of ram because at any given time, several high powered apps are running - notably the entire adobe creative suite as well as an oversize poster-printer RIP, and a color management app for a high speed color laser printer. This is a production-grade workstation. Places where I can sacrifice are in 3D video performance - there is no need for 3D video performance on this, and in hard drive storage space. There is a huge fileserver and files aren't kept on this workstation - only current working projects. A small, fast HD is preferable to a large, slow one.
The client is a notorious spendthrift, so go easy on the wallet. The monitors are already bought, so I need just the workstation.
Also: form factor - the smaller the better. And quiet would be nice. This needs to fit in a relatively small area.
Thanks!
I need a system that is geared towards pre-press and graphic design. Here are my key criteria:
dual core
at least 2gb of ram (maybe 4gb)
dual dvi output
fast hard drives
Basically, this system needs a lot of ram because at any given time, several high powered apps are running - notably the entire adobe creative suite as well as an oversize poster-printer RIP, and a color management app for a high speed color laser printer. This is a production-grade workstation. Places where I can sacrifice are in 3D video performance - there is no need for 3D video performance on this, and in hard drive storage space. There is a huge fileserver and files aren't kept on this workstation - only current working projects. A small, fast HD is preferable to a large, slow one.
The client is a notorious spendthrift, so go easy on the wallet. The monitors are already bought, so I need just the workstation.
Also: form factor - the smaller the better. And quiet would be nice. This needs to fit in a relatively small area.
Thanks!