I am building my own comuter. I used my computer mainly for running photoshop sometimes flash. sometimes I Like to multitask, so I need a processor that wont freeze up when I am using aim, opera, winamp, and photoshop at the same time.
I am also looking for something that is not extremely over the top/expensive
What ghz processor do I need?
2007-01-04 04:45:18 · 8 answers · asked by Apples and Mapples 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Given that you want to keep this machine for a little while, I would no go below 1.8. I would actually try to get a 2.0 if I could. Plus, Make sure you have a lot of RAM since Photoshop and Windows XP, which I am assuming you are going to run, are both memory hogs.
2007-01-04 04:48:56 · answer #1 · answered by aren040 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go with at least 2 GHz either AMD or INTEL. Check the system requirements for your Photoshop software and make sure you don't get a processor that the software doesn't support. Max out your RAM or get at least 2 GB of the largest sticks. Try to get a PCI Express motherboard to take advantage of its supreme data transfer rates for newer video cards. That will help you with rendering a bit.
Happy hunting
2007-01-04 12:50:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aim for 2Ghz, AMD Athlon XP. This processor is still relatively inexpensive, if that's what you're looking for.
You can find motherboard & AMD cpu combo's on eBay for around $100-150.
Also, look into getting about 1GB of RAM. You won't need 2GB, unless you're doing some heavy video editing.
2007-01-04 12:47:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Pentium 4 1.6 GHz with about 2GB of RAM. RAM plays a larger factor when you want to have more applications open at the same time.
2007-01-04 12:52:59 · answer #4 · answered by Shawn H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AMD Athlon 64 X2
2007-01-04 12:55:09 · answer #5 · answered by steve 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok for a ok cpu about 1.5 ghz, i just recently mooved up to ghz, i was on 466 mhz, 366 mhz, 233 mhz. i have a 2.0 ghz, 512 mb ram and 100 mb video.
2007-01-04 12:48:06 · answer #6 · answered by pacman1853 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would try to get an amd processor with the 2000mhz bus speed in additiont to 2.0 ghz minimum operating speed. try http://www.tigerdirect.com/ more specificly something like this one thats $219:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2207256
2007-01-04 12:55:39 · answer #7 · answered by adictedtogames 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://pcpitstop.com/default.asp
2007-01-04 12:49:32 · answer #8 · answered by EL-BRAY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋