01-20-2011, 04:56 PM
[quote name='Rainer' timestamp='1295479293' post='5669']
From your system description, I dont think that newer hardware will change much ...
One bottleneck might be the 32bit memory access ... the 32bit OS also limits you to
no more that 4GB RAM ... so even if you could upgrade to more RAM ... a 32bit windows
would not use it. Effectively, 32bit windowses don't use more than 3GB.
If you change to a Windows-7 64bit and if you also change to the 64bit version of LR,
this should speed up things a bit. (That also allows windows to use all 4GB).
Defragmentation of your disk might also help a little.
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Thats an interesting point. So far I have heard that a 64bit system with only 4gb RAm is slower than a 32 bit system with the same amount of ram. Can anybody comment on this? is a 64bit system always faster than a 32 bit system if both run on the same hardware ?
From your system description, I dont think that newer hardware will change much ...
One bottleneck might be the 32bit memory access ... the 32bit OS also limits you to
no more that 4GB RAM ... so even if you could upgrade to more RAM ... a 32bit windows
would not use it. Effectively, 32bit windowses don't use more than 3GB.
If you change to a Windows-7 64bit and if you also change to the 64bit version of LR,
this should speed up things a bit. (That also allows windows to use all 4GB).
Defragmentation of your disk might also help a little.
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Thats an interesting point. So far I have heard that a 64bit system with only 4gb RAm is slower than a 32 bit system with the same amount of ram. Can anybody comment on this? is a 64bit system always faster than a 32 bit system if both run on the same hardware ?