Dual Core CPUs - Benefits for Scanning?

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Curious

Hello,

I am wondering about the extent to which a dual core CPU system would
be useful when scanning. In particular, would it allow one to
continue to use other applications while scanning in the background?
One would think so, unless there were other bottlenecks such as disk
I/0. What do those of you who have dual core systems find?

I ask because I am planning a large scale document scanning project
and wonder if upgrading to a dual core computer would allow me to do
the scanning but continue to do other work on the same computer.

Thanks,

Curious
 
Curious said:
Hello,

I am wondering about the extent to which a dual core CPU system would
be useful when scanning. In particular, would it allow one to
continue to use other applications while scanning in the background?
One would think so, unless there were other bottlenecks such as disk
I/0. What do those of you who have dual core systems find?

I ask because I am planning a large scale document scanning project
and wonder if upgrading to a dual core computer would allow me to do
the scanning but continue to do other work on the same computer.
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I'm having no trouble doing other work while scanning (Nikon 8000) with a
single-core, 2GB/3GHz Dell XP machine. IMHO, once you have a 2GHz CPU, it's
the amount of memory that's the most important. I don't try to Photoshop at
the same time as scanning, though.

Also, of late I've taken to using 4x or 8x multisampling. The time to get a
frame flat in the holder (it often takes two or more tries with 6x7) is
large enough that I might as well get the cleanest data possible.

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan
 
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