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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: Wayne194 on January 26, 2009, 11:04:09 am

Title: Computer Upgrade?
Post by: Wayne194 on January 26, 2009, 11:04:09 am

Looking to upgrade my 4 year old computer and found this to be very appealling.
I am running CS4 Extendend as well as Lightroom for all my photo work.
What do you think of the spec's?
Any comments will be greatly appreciated.

Wayne

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?sk...d=1218017465909 (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9081325&type=product&id=1218017465909)

Title: Computer Upgrade?
Post by: DarkPenguin on January 26, 2009, 11:17:35 am

One seriously ugly case.

Get more memory.

Title: Computer Upgrade?
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on January 26, 2009, 01:51:46 pm

Quote from: DarkPenguin

One seriously ugly case.

Get more memory.

I agree on both points.

I could live with the case, but I would max out the memory to 16GB right away.
I suspect they have "Total expansion slots" and "Available expansion slots" reversed in the specs.

Title: Computer Upgrade?
Post by: robertDthomas on January 26, 2009, 03:21:45 pm

Looks like a good start.  I agree with the memory expansion to as much as you can.  I expect that there are 6 memory slots and 3 are now being taken up with 1G sticks.  You can either add 3 more 1G to a max of 6G or sell the 1G sticks and buy some 2G sticks that will get you op to 12G.  This might cost you up to $350 or more depending on what memory you choose.

Title: Computer Upgrade?
Post by: John.Murray on January 26, 2009, 04:23:03 pm

Is a can of Krylon and masking tape an option?

Title: Computer Upgrade?
Post by: Roger Calixto on January 26, 2009, 05:05:16 pm

I agree, more mem and some masking tape =)

Another thing you may wanna consider is Dell. for the same price you can get almost the same system with a 23 inch monitor and 6GB ram (and much prettier!!)

Dell XPS Desktops (http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/desktop-studioxps-435mt?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs)

whether you want a dell or not, that's another story!

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Title: Computer Upgrade?
Post by: DarkPenguin on January 26, 2009, 05:49:16 pm

The Dell S2309W 23" monitor (if that is the one you are referring to) uses a TN panel.   A poor match for photography.  (And really anything else.)