yeh I am not a programmer, but they themselves even sugest it... But it really is pretty noticeble... ok the tests I worked on is my desktop 1700 xp+ with 1 gig of 2100 ddr ram fsb is only 266 crudy lil mobo really with a good msi geforce 3 128 meg pro vid card and a tv tuner capture render card for support... Both hd I tested on are 5400 rpm 2meg buffer... This was back when I found out about the scratch disks and that my mobo doesn't support video encoding weird piece of crud..
anyways take an image 800x600 pixels with a dpi of 600...
create image layers 32 deep with elements on each layer....
then select 1/3 the image and click on the smudge tool and select all layers with a dither brush of 322 px size...
40 gig 5400 rpm 2meg buffer unpartitioned takes 2 minutes just to quick swipe the area, then 12-16 minutes just to apply the rest of the effect after you have released the brush...
120 gig 5400 rpm 2meg buffer partitioned into 4 logical drives with adobe programs installed on c: drive and scratch disks set to d: drive take 1 minute 43 seconds to complete quick swipe of the area, then anouther 9-11 minutes to apply the rest of the effect after you have released the brush...
now take the 40 gig 5400 rpm 2 meg buffer and set it as primary hard drive install os and adobe products on it, then take the 120 gig 5400 rpm 2meg buffer set it as slave and partition into 4 logical drives with adobe programs scratch disks set to the slave d: drive... It takes just under a minute to complete quick swipe of the area, then anouther 4-6 minutes to apply the rest of the effect after you have released the brush...
and this is on the crudy mobo... the higher end machines of course are way faster at rendering filters, but this is the machine that I actually tested the difference on... I work with extreamly complicated imagery and layers and compositing... I completed these tests last year after an instructor kept argueing with me that no way my crudy desktop out performed the imacs and going so far as to say even good pc's can't keep up... was like oh its so easy since I macs only have one hard drive and they are not partitioned into logical hard drives, not to mension how they allocate memory ussage.. blah blah blah oh btw the imacs to complete same process I would go out smoke two smoke bs with people come back and it would still be working on it, I smoke cloves, thats well over 25 minute break...
Hope this helps by comparison, yes I really wish I had 300 bucks for the 8790 but I don't so just need to site down and reformat and partition hard drive and live with the lil boost in render times and deal with the wait... shrugs....
anyways take an image 800x600 pixels with a dpi of 600...
create image layers 32 deep with elements on each layer....
then select 1/3 the image and click on the smudge tool and select all layers with a dither brush of 322 px size...
40 gig 5400 rpm 2meg buffer unpartitioned takes 2 minutes just to quick swipe the area, then 12-16 minutes just to apply the rest of the effect after you have released the brush...
120 gig 5400 rpm 2meg buffer partitioned into 4 logical drives with adobe programs installed on c: drive and scratch disks set to d: drive take 1 minute 43 seconds to complete quick swipe of the area, then anouther 9-11 minutes to apply the rest of the effect after you have released the brush...
now take the 40 gig 5400 rpm 2 meg buffer and set it as primary hard drive install os and adobe products on it, then take the 120 gig 5400 rpm 2meg buffer set it as slave and partition into 4 logical drives with adobe programs scratch disks set to the slave d: drive... It takes just under a minute to complete quick swipe of the area, then anouther 4-6 minutes to apply the rest of the effect after you have released the brush...
and this is on the crudy mobo... the higher end machines of course are way faster at rendering filters, but this is the machine that I actually tested the difference on... I work with extreamly complicated imagery and layers and compositing... I completed these tests last year after an instructor kept argueing with me that no way my crudy desktop out performed the imacs and going so far as to say even good pc's can't keep up... was like oh its so easy since I macs only have one hard drive and they are not partitioned into logical hard drives, not to mension how they allocate memory ussage.. blah blah blah oh btw the imacs to complete same process I would go out smoke two smoke bs with people come back and it would still be working on it, I smoke cloves, thats well over 25 minute break...
Hope this helps by comparison, yes I really wish I had 300 bucks for the 8790 but I don't so just need to site down and reformat and partition hard drive and live with the lil boost in render times and deal with the wait... shrugs....
