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Got my new computer assembled and running and am very dissapointed in the speed. My old unit was a P4 2.6 with 1.5G ram on an asus motherboard. My new unit is a core 2 duo E6850 with 2G ram on a gigabyte board. Images do not open any faster in DPP or photoshop. Image processing speed may have inched up a hair, but hardly noticable. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
 
Is the processor correctly detected in the bios and shown as running at the full clock speed?
It should open raw files with camera RAW in a couple of seconds.

Maybe time how long it takes to save 10 raw files using camera raw and see if it is a long way off.

Andrew
 
Only thing that immediatley comes to mind is the new machine is running Vista and has driver problems.

A 3ghz Core Duo (E6850) should spank/shred/humiliate a 2.6ghz netburst P4, even with a core disabled.
 
northernlights said:
Got my new computer assembled and running and am very dissapointed in
the speed. My old unit was a P4 2.6 with 1.5G ram on an asus
motherboard. My new unit is a core 2 duo E6850 with 2G ram on a
gigabyte board. Images do not open any faster in DPP or photoshop.
Image processing speed may have inched up a hair, but hardly
noticable. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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Have you defragged the hard drive?
 
There should be a huge performance increase when processing files (in memory). When opening and saving files, you are still largely relying on the storage medium. Are you accessing the files on a slow hard drive or perhaps a memory card?

Please let us know when you find the cause of the slowness. You didn't install Norton or McAfee products on the new computer, did you?

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I don't see andy substantial speed increase when file processing with photoshop. Hard drive is a 7200 rpm 160GB Seagate. I don't have Norton or Macfee installed. I use AVG for virus protection.
 
I wouldn't expect much increase on most things including opening pictures but there should be a major improvement on "certain" filters/edits...i.e., panos, large files, etc. should be faster. You state that it runs slower...that doesn't sound good.
Did you do a clean install of all software? Have you installed any plugins?

Did you do any XP tweaks on the old one? My old computers often run faster than new ones that haven't been optimized.
northernlights said:
Got my new computer assembled and running and am very dissapointed in
the speed. My old unit was a P4 2.6 with 1.5G ram on an asus
motherboard. My new unit is a core 2 duo E6850 with 2G ram on a
gigabyte board. Images do not open any faster in DPP or photoshop.
Image processing speed may have inched up a hair, but hardly
noticable. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Click to expand...
 
northernlights said:
Got my new computer assembled and running and am very dissapointed in
the speed. My old unit was a P4 2.6 with 1.5G ram on an asus
motherboard. My new unit is a core 2 duo E6850 with 2G ram on a
gigabyte board. Images do not open any faster in DPP or photoshop.
Image processing speed may have inched up a hair, but hardly
noticable. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Click to expand...
Your new computer should feel 5x faster than your old P4 2.6GHz.

Try running a full PC scan at PCPitstop, after the scan it should tell you what is slow on your computer.

My guess is that you have defective ram, you can download memtest86 to scan your ram for errors. Hope that helps and good luck.
 
I also have a P4 2.6 with 2gigs of Ram had it built 4 years ago and other than some recent problems (that I think I've fixed) has served me well. but I did a bit or research and was ready to build a new machine with core 2 duo 6850 with 3 gigs of Ram.

I came across this comparison test by Toms Hardware (link attached) that shows at a minnimum if you highlight on the two processors you should have close t a 50% increase in opening a fair sized RAw file.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html

Burt
 
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