FEBRUARY 2012

 
 
Equipment
 
The equipment and software I use (some more than others) are:
 
Hardware (updated September 2011)

Homebuilt pc - Intel CPU 2600K cooled by a BeQuiet Dark Rock Advanced heatsink; Asus P8P67 Deluxe motherboard; x2 Nexus case fans; 16Gb Corsair DDR memory; an Intel X25-M G2 160Gb solid state drive; x2 WD Velociraptors 300Gb SATA hdds; a Gainward GTX 560 Ti Phantom 1024Mb graphics card; Asus Xonar Esssence STX pci-e soundcard; Pioneer Blu-Ray SATA Disc rewriter. I have a Nexus Prominent 5 case and use a Corsair AX 850W power supply.

NEC 2490wuxi2 24" LCD monitor (not wide colour gamut); x2 Lacie 500Gb usb2 external hdd; Wacom Intuos4 6"x8" digital tablet; Canon 5D Mark II dslr; Panasonic Lumix LX5 compact digital camera. I print on an Epson R2400 inkjet, and a 1400 for less demanding work.

Quiet computing is very important to me and my pc has been assembled to achieve it.

 
Software
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit; Photoshop CS5 (32 and 64 bit); Painter 11; Topaz Clean, Remask, Detail, Adjust, DeNoise and Simplify; PhotoZoom Pro 3; Photomatix Pro 3; Dynamic Photo HDR; Dreamweaver CS3; buZZ Pro 3.