Good, that's settled then.Only downside I can see so far is that my favourite Photoshop plugins won't work in 64bit Photoshop.
*** Yes Slack--Line I know. As a concession to the way of the Penguin I will be turning my oldest over to Linux so I can have a real play with the stuff as a desktop PC.
What hassle? With Win 74 bit I have had no hassles whatsoever.
So spill the spec, I'm in the market for a new PC, looking at cheapo Dell quad cores/4gig on the outlet (£300) or might wait for another Medion deal from Aldi. Hit us with a linky to the one you went for.
Quote from: Tris on February 23, 2010, 03:32:04 pmWhat hassle? With Win 74 bit I have had no hassles whatsoever.74bit? does jim know about this?
Really, should it not be 64 bits ?
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I looked into building a similar spec from scratch myself, both from a barebones, and from the case upwards and the cost would have significantly higher - when you factor in the time it takes, why bother?
compared to this AMD Athlon 2800+ based box it's going to run at warp speed.
Not sure what happened to the link but that's the one - I went for Quad Core mainly for running Adobe CS stuff and the mobo/graphics card have pretty good rep.I looked into building a similar spec from scratch myself, both from a barebones, and from the case upwards and the cost would have significantly higher - when you factor in the time it takes, why bother?
How are you getting on with your machine Bubba? And did you install 64bit in the end? If so how are you finding it? I have spoken to a few people who have software compatibility issues with 64bit.
64bit is the way forward
1024bit is the way forward