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can PS CS 6 take advantage of a high RAM system

May 31, 2012 10:08 AM

Hi. I am thinking of investing in a workstation desktop built from oem components (since the components are quite cheap now). I have confgured a system on paper that has:

 

Core i7.

Dual NVIDIA video cards

32 GB of DDR3

Win 7 64 bit

 

There is a lot of discussion on some computer building forums as to whether programs like CS 6 can take advantage of such large amounts of RAM. I myself have 8 GB of RAM on a Mac and notice that the kinds of images that I open cause CS6 to max out on whatever RAM it can take up (causing it to use swap space), causing operations like nudge and healing to take some time. Can CS6 take advantage of such vast amounts of memory and also the dual NVIDIA cards with Open CL?

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  • Curt Y
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    1. Curt Y,
    May 31, 2012 10:16 AM   in reply to pastelcoloredcookie
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    I have read PS will use 24 gigs of RAM, what the upper limit is not sure.

     

    Might check further on the dual card concept.  It is my understanding PS does not support that.

     
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    2. Chris Cox,
    May 31, 2012 5:24 PM   in reply to pastelcoloredcookie
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    >> There is a lot of discussion on some computer building forums as to whether programs like CS 6 can take advantage of such large amounts of RAM.

     

    Why is there any discussion?

    It's a 64 bit application, and can use as much RAM as you can stuff in your machine.

     
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    3. Chris Cox,
    May 31, 2012 5:26 PM   in reply to pastelcoloredcookie
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    >> and also the dual NVIDIA cards with Open CL?

     

    2 cards, no, due to driver issues.

     

    SLI/multicard connections - no, those are intended for gaming acceleration only.

     

    A single card with multiple GPUs, yes.

     
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    4. Conrad Chavez,
    May 31, 2012 5:52 PM   in reply to pastelcoloredcookie
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    Lloyd Chambers recently wrote about using Photoshop with 64GB of RAM in a Mac Pro.

     
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