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The Core2Duo architecture is much superior to the Pentium D dual-core processor, which has been compared to two Pentium D processors just glued to one another. The Core2Duo is a more intensive, stronger processor as Casey mentioned above. Even with a slower clock speed you will probably notice...

I'm far from a Linux guru, but I can tell you that I really have enjoyed what I have used it for. There are different programs available for linux that allow you to run Windows within linux (and vice versa with virtual machines within Windows to run linux) so that you can run most all of your...

Are you meaning that once in a while when you send a job to Production Manager that your printer/plotter does not show up in the list to print to? I have had this happened just a couple times quite a while back. I believe there was an issue with the drivers I had installed, though I'm not sure...

It's always difficult trying to plan out your most efficient computer for today that will still be most efficient in the future. Right now, software developers are only just beginning to really take advantage of multithreading abilities and utilize those multiple core processors. For instance...

If you really plan things out, you won't end up using near this amount of power even on a system like this. The computer we just built was again based off two AMD Opteron quad-core processors, a Quadro FX570 video card, ASUS L1N64-SLI WS/B workstation motherboard, two 10,000 rpm Western Digital...

If you are looking clearly at performance, RAID 0 is the way to go. RAID 10 would be more useful in a file server type of configuration where all your data will need to be mirrored as well. I have a RAID 10 set up on our file servers and it does work quite speedy and effectively, but if all...

For standard 2D design work like in the sign business, there really isn't hardly any stress for a high-powered video card, most of the work is done in the actual processor. For this reason, I'd tend to steer away from SLI. Two reasons. 1) Purchasing two video cards in SLI does not actually...

I honestly haven't done a whole lot of RAID comparison and benchmarking in the systems I have set up a RAID, but I can tell you that you will have a speed increase using a RAID 0 over just standard drives, and it will be a noticeable speed. A year or so back, when we were looking at the...

From what I have heard, SSD can offer a truly unbeatable access time, and really good reading speeds to access data from the drive. However, some drives are known for terribly slow write speeds, much slower than your standard 7,200 rpm SATA hard drive. There are a very select couple of brands...

Well I'll just throw in my two cents to give AMD some credit here: I've built a few Intel and a few AMD systems through the past years. EVERY AMD system we have built has outlasted and outlived in every way the Intel systems by at least two years. They just have a much better lifetime it...

The reason my startup hasn't gotten much faster is probably just because I need some real deep cleanup on my laptop. I've had this XP install for about two years and I really like doing a reformat every year and a half to two years just to clean up registry, old files, bugs, everything.

With a single hard drive, single DVD drive, and single video card, I would think that 500 Watt PSU would be adequate, but will be kind of close. Any future upgrades and you'd want to probably get an upgraded PSU. I have had great success with Thermaltake PSU and they can be really good price...

I installed SP3 the other day on my XP professional laptop and did not have any problems. I heard rumors that SP3 was causing problems on certain AMD machines, but this was systems coming pre-installed with XP from Dell or HP because they pre-install the same image of XP on computers whether...

I know this is off subject, but does it count that I just built a new PC (literally from installing the processors and motherboard into the case to installing Windows XP to installing chipset drivers) in less than two hours? The key to all of this is having uniform system drivers. Since it's...

The most recent edition of Flexi, 8.5v1 is having an update released, v2, soon I have heard. But what do you believe will be the estimated time line for releasing the new Flexi 9? Is there any rumors or news on this at all yet? I know most all talk and focus is of course on the current...

We have several different battery backups in place for our shop. Each design workstation has a battery backup unit with a total Watt supply approximately equal to the power supply unit in that computer. Since the power supply units are actually a little more power than the system really uses...

We have a lot of similar strange errors occur similar to this with all of our different printers at the computer lab in the School of Engineering at KU. It usually is caused by a print driver error incompatibility, either with the software, the printer, or the document. Changing to a different...

If you are having a computer host all your design artwork that several people will be working from continuously, it can require a pretty fast and capable computer to keep from having issues with slow loading, saving, or accessing files (moving or copying.) Digital printing is about the same...

Try booting with just the bare essentials plugged in to your computer first: mouse, keyboard, and monitor. We had a slightly older computer that was doing something similar to this before where it would unexplainably exit Windows, then get into a loop of constantly restarting, getting up to...

If your computer supports RAID for the hard drives you have installed, and you have two or more identical drives, you may be able to set them up in a striped array. This means they are somewhat seen as a single drive. Think of it this way, when you save a file, that file is actually split up...