brettjameslive
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Hi guys and gals,
So I picked up a machine from a good customer. The guy he used to get to to sort his computer, 18 months ago, 'upgraded' his tower (I have now 'inherited' his handiwork'. Now this customer is a professional 'Photoshopper' and photographer, so I guess he has pretty unique needs...
He has a number of SATA drives, some Sata II, some III, a socket 1150 MB with an i7 2nd Gen, and 8GB of RAM, running Win 7 HP 64 bit. He also has various external devices, HDD's, eSata, Wacom tablet etc pugged in.
While the machine, on the whole, works fine, he has a number of niggling issues, and as a perfectionist, he wants these gone. I have some ideas, but not a lot of answers... yet.
So, 2 out of 5 times, when booting the machine, it will hang at the BIOS, and take maybe 2 or 3 minutes, sometimes, he tells me, longer to 'beep' and then begin to boot. I suspected external devices, so unplugged all but keyboard and mouse, and the issue persisted.
Also...
When the machine has booted, and he is accessing an internal SATA that is non primary, he clicks on a folder, and waits for an age for the machine to run it's little green bar at the top, to index the drive. This happens every time, and he's very frustrated. Especially as most of his photos are on the other drives. I think there is a RAID 0 set as the primary disk, on which, he also has a scratch disk. Would you have a scratch disk on the same volume as the primary drive? I thought not...
And finally, IN photoshop when he saves an image, or edits a layer, he has to wait quite some time for it to either save (little bar moves along steadily, but not as quickly as you'd expect), or for the effect to be applied (a few seconds). The reason he is mystified about this, is that on his second PC (a dual-core with 4GB RAM), none of these issues are present.
I thought that 18 months ago he should have had a 3rd gen i7, as opposed to a 2nd gen, as an upgrade, but regardless, the machine is displaying strange behaviour.
I am trying to push him toward a SSD as a primary drive, but he needs convincing.
Anyone have any ideas/suggestions on these issues please? If it helps, I could include a Speccy report as an attachment?
On a side note, I have been looking online for a good resource for the ultimate things that a PC build requires specifically for a photographer. These's lots out there, and lots that I can assume, but nothing I could find that was really by the experts, for the experts, if you know what I mean. Apparently a real bugbear of these guys is people trying to sell them gaming rigs....
Any help greatly appreciated.
So I picked up a machine from a good customer. The guy he used to get to to sort his computer, 18 months ago, 'upgraded' his tower (I have now 'inherited' his handiwork'. Now this customer is a professional 'Photoshopper' and photographer, so I guess he has pretty unique needs...
He has a number of SATA drives, some Sata II, some III, a socket 1150 MB with an i7 2nd Gen, and 8GB of RAM, running Win 7 HP 64 bit. He also has various external devices, HDD's, eSata, Wacom tablet etc pugged in.
While the machine, on the whole, works fine, he has a number of niggling issues, and as a perfectionist, he wants these gone. I have some ideas, but not a lot of answers... yet.
So, 2 out of 5 times, when booting the machine, it will hang at the BIOS, and take maybe 2 or 3 minutes, sometimes, he tells me, longer to 'beep' and then begin to boot. I suspected external devices, so unplugged all but keyboard and mouse, and the issue persisted.
Also...
When the machine has booted, and he is accessing an internal SATA that is non primary, he clicks on a folder, and waits for an age for the machine to run it's little green bar at the top, to index the drive. This happens every time, and he's very frustrated. Especially as most of his photos are on the other drives. I think there is a RAID 0 set as the primary disk, on which, he also has a scratch disk. Would you have a scratch disk on the same volume as the primary drive? I thought not...
And finally, IN photoshop when he saves an image, or edits a layer, he has to wait quite some time for it to either save (little bar moves along steadily, but not as quickly as you'd expect), or for the effect to be applied (a few seconds). The reason he is mystified about this, is that on his second PC (a dual-core with 4GB RAM), none of these issues are present.
I thought that 18 months ago he should have had a 3rd gen i7, as opposed to a 2nd gen, as an upgrade, but regardless, the machine is displaying strange behaviour.
I am trying to push him toward a SSD as a primary drive, but he needs convincing.
Anyone have any ideas/suggestions on these issues please? If it helps, I could include a Speccy report as an attachment?
On a side note, I have been looking online for a good resource for the ultimate things that a PC build requires specifically for a photographer. These's lots out there, and lots that I can assume, but nothing I could find that was really by the experts, for the experts, if you know what I mean. Apparently a real bugbear of these guys is people trying to sell them gaming rigs....
Any help greatly appreciated.