Hello FM Community!
Hopefully you guys could provide me with some much needed advice.
We're looking at purchasing a new office PC, which would primarily be used as a dedicated PDF printing machine as the processes have been slowing down other applications on our current desktops (which are fairly lacking on processing power). I was aiming to custom build to get the most for the money, but I wanted to know whether a graphics card has much impact on DTP tasks and printing speed, or whether it's purely down to the processor & RAM.
Currently our PC's are pushing out a fairly large manual at 6+ hours..
But after printing the same manual in a couple of other environments, we got the following results
Environment 1 (office pc): AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G @ 3.10GHz - 8gb RAM = around 6 hours printing time
Environment 2 (laptop): i7-4770K @ 3.5GHz - 16gb RAM = 25 minutes printing time.
Environment 3 (home PC): i5-4310M @ 2.7GHz - 4gb RAM = 1 hour printing time.
Environment 4 (surface book): i7-6600U @ 2.6GHz / 2.8GHz - 16gb RAM = 5-6 hours printing time.
We want to make sure that we aren't going to end up in the same position we are now with an insanely slow printing time - as often some change may need to be made to a manual post-printing and we end up losing another 6 hours.
We've put together the following parts, but any input would be very much appreciated (hopefully the link works)
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/QfcL8K
Regards,
Aidan
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