Our workstations are a piles of ****ake. I work as a graphic designer at a large format digital printing shop, and the previous owner got a crumby e-machine for a workstation.
It’s time to do an overhaul. Currently it’s running a P4 3 ghz w/ HT, and 1 gig of ram.
We work almost exclusively in Illustrator, and Photoshop. Because we do large format printing, we often work with files over a gig. They take forever to open, forever to save, forever to edit, and forever to rip. And can’t even think about designing while printing, cause that would slow the printer down. I wouldn’t even think of designing, printing, and ripping files for the printer at the same time. Computer might explode.
So, a new Motherboard, CPU, and RAM need to be purchased. Budget is round $2000 for two computers, or one badarse computer, haven’t decided which route to pursue.
Problem is I’m not super familar w/ mobo’s and cpu’s, so im looking for suggestions. We defiantely need a dual core processor, and at the very least a mobo that supports 8 gigs of RAM. Maybe a sever board w/ two dual cores and tons of ram would be the way to go. I’m not sure.
So if any of you Kirupians have recomendations, I’d appreciate it, if not lets hear what mobo / cpu you’re using and how you’re liking it.
