Which AMD CPU for Corel DRAW ?

[Guest]

In our company we plan to buy PC. I need CPU which will have good performance in picture manipulating. Wide format printing what we doing need work on heavy pictures (from 50 to 500 MB). Our Athlon XP 2500 is too slow. I have two variants :

1) Athlon 64 3800+ 2,4 Ghz
or
2) Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2 GHz

Similar price. I don't know that two-cores technology will have better result at image manipulating than one core faster CPU

[Marcin]

ahhh ... that was me.

[Hippo]

I would go for the dual core athlon 64, Coral Draw may not take advantage of the 2 cores but any other programs you have open at the other time will (Print Managers, other Image software etc)

If you can go for the fastest dual core you can buy, you'll need every bit of performance.

Also go for as much memory as you can 2GB at least for image manipulation will help as the image can be stored in memory instead of paged to the hard disk.

[FDIV]

I have an x2 3800. I would recomend it to anyone.

[sammyc]

None. go Intel

[i440bx]

[Marcin]

Thanks for suggest but tomorrow I will phone for Athlon X2 3800+, 2 x 1 G Kingston, Gigabyte with nForce 4 chipset, 2 x 200GB Samsung SATAII@RAID stripped

[Hippo]

If you can afford it go raid 0+1. It needs 4 drives but you get the speed of raid 0 with the safety of raid 1.

[jd]

[Marcin]

Parts are booked. Thanks for info ... at first I thinked integral 6100 is enough but I don't want to risk. I bought economy GeForce 6600 PCI-E made by Gainward. I had that card in my old PC before sale and it worked very well. It cost 100 USD so not much.

[soeren]

Try to use a Pentium 4 HT......or a Dual Xeon

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[jd]

Baaaaaaaaah ! ------->Xeon !!!

Tis crap !!!

[Mixeur]

[bacterio]

I vote for Intel