Steve, Mylenium
Thank you for your help... I think I can now get serious about choosing
components.

Jeff


<Mylenium@adobeforums.com> wrote in message
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> I'm looking at a core2 duo E8600, would a quad core be better?
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> If you stick with XP32bit/ Vista 32bit, quadcores are overkill. you simply
> will never have enough RAM to use them fully with AE. Therefore a dualcore
> is more than enough. I'd only buy a quad, if you plan on getting Vista 64.
> Likewise, the added speed of DDR3 RAM would only pay off on such a
> monstrous system, so you can most likely go without it.
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> Mylenium