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Lightroom/gaming bundle upgrade

rodders

rodders

rodders

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Currently have an i2500k clocked, 8gig ram and a nvidia 970

Looking to upgrade mobo,cpu,ram as lightrooms is very slow, gaming is fine. So was looking to keep the gpu and spend more on the bundle

Do I go I8700k, splash out on an i7 7820x or i9 7900x, AMD, wait for the new AMD's? 16 or 32gig ram?

Have an Ssd, but was looking to put a new M.2 in as my Ssd is quite old.

Ideas welcome...
 
yeah, I was looking and different cpu's help different things in lightroom. I'm mainly importing, making changes, then exporting, so was thinking the i8700K is enough. Plus the gains on the more expensive cpu's are probably not worthy.

I can be exporting a few hundred photos at a time and currently that takes well over 1/2 hour on my current setup. I just walk away, lol.
But it also struggles in many other areas when modifying photos and even scrolling to the next ones.
When I import and put on a preset, it takes ages for the thumbnails to update.
 
 
Interesting, only have a spinner for my catalogue. Could be some of my problem.
For 100quid I could just get another m.2

Guess around 1000/1200 is gonna be a sensible budget

Could spend more, but I don't see the point?
 
I could wait, maybe a few weeks, but not sure till about April.

My current ram usage isn't max, but cpu is. The latest updates helped a bit, but no where near enough.

What's the difference between the crucial mx300 and Samsung drive, as one is 2000odd MBs and the other only 500. Big number difference, but what about real world performance, or have I read it wrong?
 
 
 
An antech khuler h2o 620. Bit old

Could phone up and change mobo this morning. Edit - out of stock now anyway, was only 1 last night

Gaming 7 is on offer, so not much difference in price.
 
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The noctua ? Hope it fits, I have some massive coolmaster case I think it is, can't remember the model name.
Hope it's as good as water cooling aio units
 
I bought a K cpu...? Did you mean I didn't or not?

USB c - new too me. Is this better than USB 3? do I need a new hub to transfer my photos from SD card to PC?
 
Something to look into then :-)

Maybe i'll have to go water if it gets too hot, see how it goes. I don't need to clock it crazy
 
I have large front, huge side and two biggies on top of case.

Might chuck something on the back as well pulling out, but I think the top pulling out is enough with front and side feeding.
 
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