Commodore?
Abit AX8 motherboard, i think this is socket 939.
what hdd you got? (storage section)
could you post a simular picture that you need converted?
i got a amd dual core 1800mhz laptop with 2gb of ram. i could time it.
maybe others to.
you print to "adobe pdf" and adjust paper to a3 with 300 pix/inch image downscaling?
U can buy dual core athlon 64 fx-60 but efficiency dont increase so much.../
Better buy new motherboard and and Intel Core 2 Duo or Quad for extreme preformance(is a good word?) i dunno so much about ram so i be quiet...
sry for my english
video encoding?
Core 2 Quad 6600!
buy this: Intel C2Q6600, 2GB DDR2 Corsair Ram, Gigabyte P35-DS4, Samsung HDD, Tagan 480W Power, GeForce 8600GTS.
I have a very similar system and it runs like sh**^^
a multiple layers.....
3ghz quad core and 2 or 4gb memory.
upgrading with 200 euro budget might increase speed by a factor 2 .. maybe 4x.
omg i used to have a commodore c6r in russia!
they rock!!!!!!!
shame that commodore had to degreade themselves to this stage
atari ftw
he wants to make money on you.
if you want to update your current computer, try to find a supplier of 939 dual core cpu.
in holland the 4200x2 939 is still for sale for only 79 euro:
http://www.alternate.nl/html/shop/productListing4C.html?group=manufacturerName&cat1=3&cat2=223&cat3=000&treeName=HARDWARE&Level1=Processoren&Level2=Desktop&Level3=Socket+939&
if you convert an image again, press ctrl alt del and look at performance and look at PF usage. this is the page file on the harddisk. ( i think)
the more it uses PF, the slower the conversion goes.
if it uses this extremely much, the processor is just going back and forth between memory and hdd and you probably see a low usage of cpu and high use of PF.
this means that increasing memory in your comp could mean a great deal.
I suppose I cannot post it because posters size is over 80Mb's. I'm making high resolution posters which consist multiple layers. Anyways the poster belongs to my client so even if it was small file I couldn't post it here.
When I start making new poster, I set the size to A3 or A2 depending on what client wants (usually A3 is enough even for A2 posters because they don't need to be so accurate since they will be viewed from the distance anways) and then choose 300px/inch resolution. When it's ready I just save it to Adobe pdf.
This saving process isn't the only problem. When I use Photoshop and Illustrator together the speed is worse.
Everest says this about my HDD:
Via Bus Master IDE Controller
Via SmartX RAID Controller
Maxtor 120GB, 7200rpm, Ultra-ATA/133
Maxtor 279GB, IDE
I'm not making videos. Only posters and advertisiment graphics.