John,
Thanks very much the info. I know I have too little RAM on my present
machine but I have the max. (4GiB) it will take.
I will follow up those links. I plan to get a SDD for the OS so the whole
thing is a lot faster.
Clive
On 13 August 2015 at 14:37, john <jee@???> wrote:
> Hi
>
> The bottleneck to speed of image processing is not the cpu or the
> harddisk it is ram.
>
> A less expensive CPU and as much ram as you can have enables better
> processing. SDD's are fine for faster loading of programing but are
> not as fast as a ramdisk.
>
> Novatech do:
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> http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/motherboards/intelsocket2011-3/x99chipsetatx/ga-x99-sli.html
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> www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/memory-pc/ddr4memory/ddr4pc4-170002133mhz/cmk16gx4m2a2133c13.html
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> http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/processors/intelcorei72011/bx80648i75820k.html
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> John Eayrs
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> On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:03:36 +0100
> Clive Woodfine <clivewoodfine@???> wrote:
>
> > Having just read the similar thread about Gaming Machines can anyone
> > recommend a machine suitable for photography?
> >
> > At present I use Darktable to get the most out of RAW files and I
> > would like to use Digikam for general organising. I find my present
> > machine is too slow if I have a lot of images to work on. It is
> > several years old.
> >
> > It has to be Linux friendly of course. Up to about a £1000 limit.
> >
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