Need PC upgrade for video and photo editing

[keymoo]

I use my PC for editing photos in Adobe Lightroom and occasionally in Photoshop and for video editing in Davinci Resolve Studio. However, I am finding Davinci Resolve to be very sluggish and unable to keep up with me when editing mostly GoPro footage in 4K. Even when generating proxy media, and setting Playback resolution to Half, it is slow and stutters. Lightroom has also become sluggish, and I'm often waiting around for it. I have quite a large library in Lightroom with over 600GB of photos (40,000+).

I want to upgrade with a budget under £1000.

My current setup is 4 years old now but still has life left in it? :

- Windows 11 Pro
- AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
- 64 GB DDR4 RAM
- Asrock B550M Pro4 Motherboard
- Nvidia Geforce RTX 2070 Super graphics (MSI)
- 1 TB Crucial CT1000P1SSD8 NVME SSD (OS & Apps)
- 2 TB Western Digital WDC WDS200T2B0A-00SM50 SATA SSD (files)
- 256GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB SATA SSD (cache)
- 1 TB Samsung Portable SSD USB external (scratch area)
- 4x 3 TB HDDs spanned for Downloads, Archives, VHDs, ISOs, etc.

I'm thinking of upgrading the NVME SSD as that's probably a big bottleneck, followed by the GPU, and maybe the CPU. Not sure about the CPU though, might not make much of a difference. What do you think?


My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x MSI GeForce RTX 4070 VENTUS 2X E1 OC 12GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-MSI-03202) = £479.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Twelve Core 4.8GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3CA-AM) = £248.99
• 1 x Samsung 990 Pro 4TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 x4 NVMe 1.3c Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-SAM-00984) = £309.94

Total: £1,046.92 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

 

[Tetras]

I'm thinking of upgrading the NVME SSD as that's probably a big bottleneck, followed by the GPU, and maybe the CPU. Not sure about the CPU though, might not make much of a difference. What do you think?

If you haven't already I'd encourage you to monitor your usage with hwinfo's sensor tab and task manager, which should help you determine where the bottleneck is.

 

[Mel_P]

I had a Ryzen 3600 and found it was slow in converting ORF RAW files to DNG for processing. I swapped the 3600 for a Ryzen 9 5900x and it was MUCH faster as it used all of the cores. So if it's a case of more cores = faster you should see a speed up. Mel