Recent content by garethshaw

I do some very heavy work and with my current setup which is realise isn't really comparable, within about 15 minutes of starting work in lightroom with my 23Mb 5d mkIII files I can max the entire box out and grind it to a crawl. That's a 2 x dual core Xeon 3Ghz with 10Gb RAM, I am often...

Hi Not sure I follow... I have a Mac Pro so can buy and download Mountain Lion, I've already got an official install DVD of Snow Leopard and have upgrade my Mac to Lion 10.7.4 which I've re-downloaded ready to install. So if I install Mountain Lion i can install with any amount of RAM? When...

Hi All after a LOT of thinking, posting a stupid ask everything message, watching videos and reading reviews, I've come up with the following spec. I'd love some feedback, will it work? Is it over spec'd? What could I improve and on the memory front... which ones?! It will be used for... in...

oh and my monitors are all DVI not thunderbolt or miniport. G

Hi I've read just aboout every page on this site, added about 40 items into my wish list on amazon and now I'm stuck, I need real world advice, this is a high end machine and chosing components I'm out of my depth, putting it together no worries. I hadn;t considered that card, but then there...

Hi all I was looking at buying the highest end MacBook Pro but my brother pursuaded me not too. To this end I've decided to build my own Hack. I really need some advice, I know how to build but I've not bbuilt one in years so I'm out of my depth on WHAT to buy in terms of numbers, makess and...