Don't know which AMD CPU you have, the quad core AMD is much slower than
intel. Could be equivalent to an i3 in performance. I have zero problem with
the USB 3.0 port on my wife notebook and the USB 3.0 HDD except the USB 3.0
cable came with the Buffalo HDD has a bending lead causing some
intermittent.
Anyway, PS is not a hardware demanding application, most low cost machine
will just work fine. But don't tell me you are going to stitch up a 1GB
image file.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> My current machine (since last October) is a refurbished HP Pavilion
> with AMD 4 core processor and on-chip video, 8GB RAM and Win 7. The
> only additions to it other than as it came out-of-the-box were to add a
> 1TB SATA drive for image storage and an eSATA card to support the
> Thermaltake BlacX drive dock for backups. The machine has USB 3.0 ports
> which I tried to use for backup via a USB 3.0 to eSATA converter but it
> proved unreliable. I don't know if the problem is the USB 3.0 ports or
> (more likely) the cheap converter but it doesn't matter since the eSATA
> card (from the old Dell XP machine) works just fine.
>
> I paid $350 for the machine (with free shipping) and nothing for the
> additions since they came from the old WinXP machine. I have made
> absolutely no additions, modifications or tuning changes to support PS6.
> I'm sure I could diddle with it and tune it to go faster but it's
> working fine for me as is. I forgot to mention that it's running my
> Dell 24" IPS display from the old machine which is still operational.
> Both use the same monitor, keyboard (ancient IBM PC clicky type) and
> mouse via a KVM switch.
>
> On the other hand, I do not have 1/2 million images to manage.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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