What you DONT want to do is go for a new fast & powerfull CPU and skimp on RAM and storage. 1.Buy as much RAM you can or even better as much as your box can install ;- ) you mention 128mb - maybe try and double it. 2.Get a fast, SCSI hard disk rather than a big EIDE disk. For actually working 2-3 gigs will be fine. storage of files needs extra obviuosly. Ideally use 1 disk for working, 1 for storage. 3.Ok controversy time - if you have masses of RAm and fast SCSI storage, you can relax about the CPU speed. Maybe save some money and get hold of a used higher end box or board. I bet a used 250mhz Pentium is cheaper than a new 500 mhz anything and working with big bitmap files it will be faster than a 500mhz with no ram. 4.Same can apply to the graphics card. A good quality used older board with enough RAM to push about a used 19-20" monitor will be nicer to work with than a new board and a new 17" monitor. 5.beg, steal and borrow. -ve
AMD K2 400 CPU (boxed) 1xDimm 128Mb SDram PC100, 100MHz
I only mentioned the most important features. Anyway, I'm still not too sure about the CPU because I get a lot of different suggestions. Now I do know that lots of RAM is more important then a faster CPU when it comes to photo editing. Those of you who say that the AMD would do just fine make sense but so does John Pennington...
At least it's not like photoshop on a crapintosh - lose your unsaved data when it tells you out-of-mem when there's 2 x that of the image size left. I'd still be extremely careful comparing gimp to photoshop though...
You need sufficient disk space for the gimp swap files, and of course your images. For a 5kx10k monochrome (i.e. 1bit per pixel!) image gimp bombs out stone-dead on above mentioned PIII.
For that kind of 512x768 crap you get from a digitised foto lab when you have your film developed any computer will be sufficient.
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