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A son of a mate of mine put the system together on Saturday afternoon. He has a degree in computer science and is also a hardware systems expert. All up and running Vista 64 bit with no fuss. I loaded in Registar and ImagesPlus and PhotoShop on Sunday.
Gave it the big test and had all three programs running at once all doing CPU and memory intensive tasks. Any one of them would have fully occupied the old system to the point of no response if you even tried to do anything else such as web browsing. It did all three at once with ease and I then proceeded to open a few web pages.
I then set ImagesPlus off to do a few more tasks at the same time. The 64 bit version of ImagesPlus can do many different things at once (it can use multicores) and what is even better for all practical purposes the image size is unlimited.
The intel i7 920 processor has hyperthreading which means you have effectively eight processors and with 12GB of memory will do anything you can throw at it.
Best of all it is very fast. Looks like it will do everything I want for image processing.
All round a good outcome. Again thanks all for the advice and encouragement.
Bert
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