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    Haswell Xeon vs Ivy Bridge-E for new photo editing box?

    Always! I have a NAS I use for that sort of thing.
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    Haswell Xeon vs Ivy Bridge-E for new photo editing box?

    @MrGuvernment - The two disks in JBOD are utility drives I already own, and unsuitable for use in a RAID. At the moment, I can't afford the additional costs of more RE (or even SE) drives and the larger controller. I agree that RAID 5 with four drives is cutting it close, but unless I have two...
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    Haswell Xeon vs Ivy Bridge-E for new photo editing box?

    Hello! I'm considering configuration options for a new workstation. I work primarily in Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC, editing pretty heavy images (20-50 megapixels, at 16-bit ProPhoto RGB, often with dozens of layers). My workstation also typically doubles as a fileserver/media player for...
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    My PC won't idle! And I think it's trying to kill me/spy on me.

    Hey all - I have a real brain tickler of a Windows 7 issue to run by you. I've been running Win 7 x64 on an OCZ Vertex 60GB, with FW 1.5. During a routine health check in the last couple of week , I noticed a slight drop (maybe 5%) in AS SSD results - especially random writes/reads...
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    AMD's ATI 10.3a Catalyst Driver Update @ [H]

    Yeah, I don't really need to benchmark my system to know that it sucks a unlubricated horse cock. All it takes is selecting an object in Illustrator to make me long for the days of 2D hardware acceleration. (That is one sentence I NEVER thought I would write.) What I need is for all the...
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    AMD's ATI 10.3a Catalyst Driver Update @ [H]

    Thanks for the update! Any word on whether or not this update will include the 2D hotfix? I love this enthusiast stuff, I'm excited about Eyefinity, but sometimes I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I read about AMD's driver updates. They're working on getting six (SIX!!!) displays working...
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    ATI 5850 flicker in PS CS4

    Had a similar issue with my 5770 in CS4 - running CS4 without Aero should fix it (you can set this on a per-application basis: right click on the program icon, select "Properties" then head to the "Compatibility" tab and click "Disable Desktop Composition"). However, this isn't the only issue...
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    Significant Performance Drop w/Catalyst 10.2

    Yeah, you're probably right, I'm not going to sweat it. The 2D performance issue on ATI 5000 series cards is a real thing - ask the google and some articles will come up - but ATI evidently has a working fix for that in house, and they're integrating it into the 10.3 or 10.4 driver. Which is...
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    What the best practice for uninstalling Catalyst/ATI Drivers?

    Thanks Princess - that's exactly the procedure I use. Crap still piles up, though. Yeah Rogue, coming from Nvidia, ATI's driver situation has been pretty unimpressive. It's like it's just slightly too hard for them to write a stable driver.
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    Significant Performance Drop w/Catalyst 10.2

    Hmm. Strange and stranger. (Incidentally, I do have an SSD - a 60gb OCZ Vertex - and it scores 7.2. That said, the benchmark belies the really insane performance increase you will feel when doing desktop/productivity work... things just pop open, multi-tasking is effortless... its like...
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    Significant Performance Drop w/Catalyst 10.2

    Yeah, games seems fine, but I do much more than just game with my PC - 2D intensive desktop applications, like Photoshop and Illustrator, seem to be a little more unresponsive. Applications that mix 2D/3D commands - like iTunes - demonstrate similar sluggishness. I know Toms Hardware had a...
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    What the best practice for uninstalling Catalyst/ATI Drivers?

    Hey All - So adjacent to the performance drop issue I'm seeing with Catalyst 10.2, I'm now wondering what the best way to uninstall that fat bastard Catalyst control center and drivers prior to upgrading. More specfically, on my past driver upgrades (from Catalyst 9.12 to 10.1, 10.1 to...
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    Significant Performance Drop w/Catalyst 10.2

    Seriously? That's way low for a 5870.
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    Significant Performance Drop w/Catalyst 10.2

    A clean install - as always. This is now the second driver update I've done since building this machine - 9.12 to 10.1, and 10.1 to this one - and only this update exhibited this issue.
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    Significant Performance Drop w/Catalyst 10.2

    Hey all - Just upgraded my new system to Catalyst 10.2, and I immediately noticed that the Win 7 desktop felt sluggish. Sure enough, after testing with Windows Experience, the scores for graphics system (both gaming and desktop) fell from the 7.4 they had been with Catalyst 9.12 and 10.1 to...
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