two Opteron 254s or two Opteron 270s for CS2

[shawn]

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

 

[John Weiss]

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!

 

[Henrik Tived]

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

 

[kirbalo]

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

 

[kirbalo]

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

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