Comments on: Extra Memory for my Desktop http://www.keptlight.com/index.php/2008/08/extra-memory-for-my-desktop/ A. Cemal Ekin on Photography Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:50:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark_Q http://www.keptlight.com/index.php/2008/08/extra-memory-for-my-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Mark_Q Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:51:39 +0000 http://www.keptlight.com/blog/?p=178#comment-20 I'm very pleased I found this encouraging article while designing my new PC for photo editing. Now I can tell that this 3GB switch works also on XP Home which I opted after some consideration having had a forum discussion at DPReview.com about XP Home vs XP Professional. You use XP Professional and Adobe's TechNote article "Optimize performance of Photoshop CS3 on Windows XP and Vista" states XP Pro having this 3GB option. So I took a risk by opting for XP Home as a result of my forum discussion. In order to see how this switch would affect CS3's performance I downloaded and installed Retouch Artists' Photoshop Speed Test package and made the requested changes in Performance preferencies. Here are my test results: XP Home booted normally, CS3 using 1271MB RAM (=75% of available 1695MB): test action lasted 64 seconds. CS3 using all available RAM: 42 seconds. XP Home booted w/ 3GB switch, CS3 using 1695MB RAM (=now 64% of available 2633MB): test action lasted 30 seconds, 12 seconds less. Increasing the RAM to 2000MB and max 2633MB didn't shorten the duration. I did these test a couple of times and did exit and restart CS3 after the changes. I’m very pleased I found this encouraging article while designing my new PC for photo editing. Now I can tell that this 3GB switch works also on XP Home which I opted after some consideration having had a forum discussion at DPReview.com about XP Home vs XP Professional.

You use XP Professional and Adobe’s TechNote article “Optimize performance of Photoshop CS3 on Windows XP and Vista” states XP Pro having this 3GB option. So I took a risk by opting for XP Home as a result of my forum discussion.

In order to see how this switch would affect CS3’s performance I downloaded and installed Retouch Artists’ Photoshop Speed Test package and made the requested changes in Performance preferencies. Here are my test results:

XP Home booted normally, CS3 using 1271MB RAM (=75% of available 1695MB): test action lasted 64 seconds. CS3 using all available RAM: 42 seconds.

XP Home booted w/ 3GB switch, CS3 using 1695MB RAM (=now 64% of available 2633MB): test action lasted 30 seconds, 12 seconds less. Increasing the RAM to 2000MB and max 2633MB didn’t shorten the duration.

I did these test a couple of times and did exit and restart CS3 after the changes.

]]> By: Mary http://www.keptlight.com/index.php/2008/08/extra-memory-for-my-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Mary Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:59:47 +0000 http://www.keptlight.com/blog/?p=178#comment-19 Looks like this is the limitation of a 32-bit operating system, with .75GB apparently spent on other hardware. My current desktop supposedly can handle 8GB, so I loaded 6GB but seeing only 3.25GB. Then I learned that it needs to be loaded with Vista 64-bit to utilize the full 6GB of RAM. It is running Vista 32-bit now. I am not worroed as the speed is satisfactory enough. Mary Looks like this is the limitation of a 32-bit operating system, with .75GB apparently spent on other hardware.

My current desktop supposedly can handle 8GB, so I loaded 6GB but seeing only 3.25GB. Then I learned that it needs to be loaded with Vista 64-bit to utilize the full 6GB of RAM. It is running Vista 32-bit now. I am not worroed as the speed is satisfactory enough.

Mary

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