two Opteron 254s or two Opteron 270s for CS2

Hi Everyone,

I have read as much as I possibly can, and tried to draw my own
conclusions. Please let me know if I am making them correctly before I make
this purchase. This is my first newsgroup entry, apologies if it is not to
spec:

Photoshop CS2 seems to love more Ghz. Photoshop CS2 is multitasking, but
unto itself it can never use more than 2 cores. Therefore, it seems that if
I am only concerned with Photoshop (and very minor apps occasionally
running in the background), then two Opteron 254s @ 2.8Ghz is going to run
faster than two 270 Opterons (4 cores) at 2.0 Ghz, on a Tyan S2895,
Correct? This is about the top of my budget. If money were no object, I'd
buy a pair of 280s.

Any thoughts on this? I'll start with 6Gb of RAM and will be running XP64,
OS/scratch/data Raptors + big 7200rpm for archiving, probably Firewire.

My inclination is to go against the grain and get the 2.8Ghz single cores
for a nice dual setup, rather than a slower quad setup with the 270s,
again, these being my budget constraints for a great Photoshop machine.

Thanks kindly.

Shawn

"shawn" wrote...

Photoshop CS2 seems to love more Ghz. Photoshop CS2 is multitasking, but
unto itself it can never use more than 2 cores.

Any thoughts on this? I'll start with 6Gb of RAM and will be running XP64,
OS/scratch/data Raptors + big 7200rpm for archiving, probably Firewire.

My inclination is to go against the grain and get the 2.8Ghz single cores
for a nice dual setup, rather than a slower quad setup with the 270s,
again, these being my budget constraints for a great Photoshop machine.

Makes sense to me!

Hi Shawn,

I have a similar setup but 2x 250s and 8gb only problem is that you
currently don't have any color calibration on win x64
only regret, net getting faster processors! :-)

Henrik


"shawn" wrote in message
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Hi Everyone,

I have read as much as I possibly can, and tried to draw my own
conclusions. Please let me know if I am making them correctly before I
make
this purchase. This is my first newsgroup entry, apologies if it is not to
spec:

Photoshop CS2 seems to love more Ghz. Photoshop CS2 is multitasking, but
unto itself it can never use more than 2 cores. Therefore, it seems that
if
I am only concerned with Photoshop (and very minor apps occasionally
running in the background), then two Opteron 254s @ 2.8Ghz is going to run
faster than two 270 Opterons (4 cores) at 2.0 Ghz, on a Tyan S2895,
Correct? This is about the top of my budget. If money were no object, I'd
buy a pair of 280s.

Any thoughts on this? I'll start with 6Gb of RAM and will be running XP64,
OS/scratch/data Raptors + big 7200rpm for archiving, probably Firewire.

My inclination is to go against the grain and get the 2.8Ghz single cores
for a nice dual setup, rather than a slower quad setup with the 270s,
again, these being my budget constraints for a great Photoshop machine.

Thanks kindly.

Shawn

Anandtech has a good article that just posted regarding Dual Opteron vs Dual
Core Dual Opteron vs Single and Dual Core Xeon.

They benchmark CS2 in there iirc...

Kirbalo

"shawn" wrote in message
...
Hi Everyone,

I have read as much as I possibly can, and tried to draw my own
conclusions. Please let me know if I am making them correctly before I
make
this purchase. This is my first newsgroup entry, apologies if it is not to
spec:

Photoshop CS2 seems to love more Ghz. Photoshop CS2 is multitasking, but
unto itself it can never use more than 2 cores. Therefore, it seems that
if
I am only concerned with Photoshop (and very minor apps occasionally
running in the background), then two Opteron 254s @ 2.8Ghz is going to run
faster than two 270 Opterons (4 cores) at 2.0 Ghz, on a Tyan S2895,
Correct? This is about the top of my budget. If money were no object, I'd
buy a pair of 280s.

Any thoughts on this? I'll start with 6Gb of RAM and will be running XP64,
OS/scratch/data Raptors + big 7200rpm for archiving, probably Firewire.

My inclination is to go against the grain and get the 2.8Ghz single cores
for a nice dual setup, rather than a slower quad setup with the 270s,
again, these being my budget constraints for a great Photoshop machine.

Thanks kindly.

Shawn

Sorry...that was xbitlabs.com...

"kirbalo" wrote in message
...
Anandtech has a good article that just posted regarding Dual Opteron vs
Dual Core Dual Opteron vs Single and Dual Core Xeon.

They benchmark CS2 in there iirc...

Kirbalo

"shawn" wrote in message
...
Hi Everyone,

I have read as much as I possibly can, and tried to draw my own
conclusions. Please let me know if I am making them correctly before I
make
this purchase. This is my first newsgroup entry, apologies if it is not
to
spec:

Photoshop CS2 seems to love more Ghz. Photoshop CS2 is multitasking, but
unto itself it can never use more than 2 cores. Therefore, it seems that
if
I am only concerned with Photoshop (and very minor apps occasionally
running in the background), then two Opteron 254s @ 2.8Ghz is going to
run
faster than two 270 Opterons (4 cores) at 2.0 Ghz, on a Tyan S2895,
Correct? This is about the top of my budget. If money were no object, I'd
buy a pair of 280s.

Any thoughts on this? I'll start with 6Gb of RAM and will be running
XP64,
OS/scratch/data Raptors + big 7200rpm for archiving, probably Firewire.

My inclination is to go against the grain and get the 2.8Ghz single cores
for a nice dual setup, rather than a slower quad setup with the 270s,
again, these being my budget constraints for a great Photoshop machine.

Thanks kindly.

Shawn