So I'd known for a while that my time to upgrade was coming. I'd built my previous system in early 2004, and at the time, it was an absolute beast: two 3.06GHz Xeon processors, two gigabytes of RAM, and a handful of hard disks, with two of the 250GB disks in a mirrored RAID array, to protect my valuable project data. For a variety of reasons, though, lately it had become incredibly difficult to work with; it was at the point where saving project files could last minutes, and I found that my creative workflow was often interrupted by the computer's inability to keep up. Part of it was due to new software and larger files, but I'm convinced that part of it was due to the general slowdown that one experiences with a Windows-based PC over the long haul; no matter how much you defrag, scan for malware, and keep your hard drives clean, the eventual bloat and entanglement of the registry and other system files guarantees that at some point, you'll have to reformat and start fresh. But when you're running a business on a single system full-time, that's no simple task. So for the last six months of the system's life, I knew I had to move quickly to build a new machine in order to keep things afloat.
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Source: Geek.com
Sep 10, 2008, 11:28 PM
