Re: new computer or new video card needed?

On Mon, 14 May 2007 23:06:20 -0400, louise <louise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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Louise

Thanks for your thoughts. I don't use cleanup, but I do use
CCleaner (crap cleaner) - same general principle with a lot
of flexibility and choices.

Cleanup is affectiontely know as Crap Cleaner and even has the sound
of a fushing toilet when run.


I'm using Capture NX because CS3 does (not yet) support the
D40X although they do support the D40. Adobe and Nikon
agree that the NEF files are slightly different on the two
cameras. So at this point, Capture NX is a necessity. But
I have been starting to close it after making basic
adjustments and then moving the tif to CS3.

"I would think" which means I don't know for sure, that you'd be able
to open the file in NX, process it, <save> and then <close> or <exit>
the file without having to close NX, IF NX cleans up after itself. IOW
it should not keep the file in memory after it has been saved and
closed. With 2 Gigs you should be able to keep both programs running.
As I mentioned earlier, I run either Nikon Scan or VueScan while
running Photshop with 2 Gigs of RAM and no problem. OTOH I have found
some of Nikon's software to be a bit flaky a times.

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However, I'd like to understand the use of a second drive
for the swap file. I can certainly pick up a second drive
on Newegg and install it. I gather I would then format it.
Then what? Do I just use it as a swap drive for CS3? Do
I partition it? How large should it be?

Some one else offered some good suggestions on formatting and
partitioning the second drive. I'd normally set the swap file to
about twich the size of physical memory, but 10 gigs is a good round
number. the rest of the drive is a single partition for data.

The reason for using a second drive for the swap file is speed. When
only using one drive it can read and then write, IOW it can only do
one thing at a time. Two drives with large caches can essentially be
reading or looking ahead and this can really speed up the process.

I'm wondering whether it might be a good idea to get a large
second drive, partition it, and store all my raw files on
one partition while using the other partition for a swap
file. Would that be reasonable? I'm thinking of it because
now that I'm shooting in raw, I'm beginning to have a large
quantity of large files which I would like to keep
unprocessed for possible use in the future.

I do pretty much what you are proposing, but I also back up those
files to DVD.


I'd greatly appreciate some clarification about how to set
up the swap file and whether I could partition it and save
my raw files on the other partition. How large should the
swap file be?

I prefer to have my working files on a physically different drive.

Good luck and happy flushing.


I'm off to run CCleaner :-)

Thanks again for your thoughts and suggestions.

Louise
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