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Hello all,I need to upgrade a computer to increase its performance for image processing with adobe photoshop cs. The problem I have is because digital pro-images are quite large (12megapixel) the computer totally slow down when opening, aplying a modification,etc.. anything you do will take a long time.The actual computer is a AMD athlon 64 +3400 with 1Gb of RAM. Graphics card is nVidia 5200. Hardisk is SATA 7000rpm (seagate)What do you improve to achieve more performance for this kind of work?As this computer is not for gaming, I don't know if a better graphics card would help.More RAM will speed up anything?The CPU is ok? or it is too much slow ?As you can see, in hardware I'm plenty of doubts so any expert's advice will be appreciated.

I will be grateful if you can show me more about this. If I buy a SLI motherboard I could put two nVidia graphic cards working together? or the graphic cards need to be special ones? The graphic cards could be AGP or need to be PCI ? I'll appreciate if you can give me some example to understand it better.

in fact I think endurance is the strongest point for gaming mouses. Resolution also is higher than normal so movement is smoother. Mine (logitech G5) also have two buttons in it's top for increase/decrease the mouse resolution (dpi).

Finally I managed to have one of these lens in my hand !They look great ! the VR option finally means they have an image stabilizer inside, so you can shoot by hand with slow shutter speeds and the picture do not get blurred. Also is quite huge, lens has a very wide diameter (72mm) and their fastest aperture is f:3.5Surely Nikon has hit the nail with this lens, but the worse part is the price.

2 x BFG ... you are saying you have two graphic cards working together to double the graphics power? If it is, how is possible to do that? It is possible to do with any graphics card? or must be a special one? I am VERY interested in this issue. Thanks to all.

The very basic (and inexpensive) filters to have are: a Circular Polarizer and a Graduated Neutral Density filter. Also spending money in a good tripod and a TTL flash are always a good investment. Canon Digital Rebel is a good camera (in europe is sold as Canon 350D) and the lens kit is not bad at all. Personally I have no experience with it, as all my equipment is Nikon, but one friend of mine have it and I saw spectacular photos made with it. Don't worry too much with hardware and take photos. Some of the best fotos has been taken with non-pro cameras !

Mi taste is Filezilla also.I've using it for several years and is one of the best FTP client I have tried.For FTP server, I can recommend GuildFTPd as is easy to configure and performs very well.

In fact I agree with all of you, above 4 or 5 megapixel is not needed unless you need large prints. But what sparx said makes me think... The camera manufacturers in short will no produce film cameras. Nikon has announced recently the discontinuation of all of their film cameras except F6. In my opinion, nowadays there is no digital camera that can outperform film, but seems the marketing guys are doing a good job promoting digital products. I'm afraid that in short, film will start to dissapear from commerces... so we can't load our film cameras anymore.

that is, as by the way the megapixels count is up and growing, it seems there is no limit, 4 -5 -6 -7 some SLRs have 10 and 12 megapixel, but do you think that huge resolution is needed at all ?What is more important? A high megapixel resolution or a good lens attached on a camera ?The discussion is served ! let see your opinions !!!

With Photoshop you can correct anything from color quality and tonal range to altering the composition and sharpening the overall quality of your picture. By following these basic steps you can make improvements to your picture: - Make sure that yor scan quality is best for your images use. - The image should be cropped to the size you intend it to be when it is finished. - Adjust the contrast and tonal range of your picture. - Alter or remove any color contrasts. - Work on specific parts of your image to enhance highlights, middle tones, shadows and desaturated colors. - And sharpen the focus of your image overall.

Is a known problem that some video cards have a lot of problems with the directX when gaming. For example, in the past, I had a lot of problems with a Matrox card and changing to a nVidia solved all the problems !

Anybody know how is possible to link two graphic cards ? You need two monitors, or you connect one monitor and they share the GCPUS? I'm VERY interested in that !

I'll bet for PS3. Always is the same history: Microsoft lauch first it's console and some people buy it because there is no competitors with its performance, but when new Sony's arrives, the Xbox practically dissapear from the stores.I'm not exagerating if I say that I don't know where I could buy a brand new Xbox now in my city. But if you want a PS2, go to any supermarket and here it is.

I prefer Firefox at all. There are a lot of new features of IE that are only a copy of the Firefox original ones.Microsoft always claims about their innovation, but really the only thing they do is to plagiarize...Also Firefox is more stable and secure !

I need to try it !Anybody can advice a good tutorial to start with php ?