Associate
Hi all,
Considering the following spec for a Lightroom PC and odd bits of video editing, for a possible future Mavic Air purchase. No gaming intended and roughly £1k budget, plus a copy of Win10. Will be linked up to a 4K Dell IPS monitor and 6TB NAS backup I already have. Current thoughts are as below for these reasons:
- Best value of Ryzen CPU and GPU vs performance
- Not sure the X570 or B550 boards gives me anything more at the moment (assuming there's an upgrade path on the chosen board to a Ryzen 4th gen at some point in a few years...) - PCI3.0 M.2 drive should be more than fast enough for intended use
- OS etc would sit on the M2, with images etc on the 1TB SSD as the working disk. I also have a 128GB EVO840 that'll hold the LR catalogue and cache.
- Case tbc
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Question though - if I could throw, say, an extra £150 at the build what would be best benefit for intended use?
- Ryzen 3700x with 2 extra cores?
- Extra 16GB RAM?
- GPU upgrade to 5700x? (Plus higher wattage PSU)
I can see pros and cons to all the above options - there's a law of diminishing returns on each one - LR generally plays better with NVidea vs AMD GPUs but the 5700x is about 25-30% faster on straight benchmarks, the extra 2 CPU cores may be of benefit, and my current i5-3470k/R7 250/16GB system does top out on RAM on occasion at 16GB so 32GB might help out there.
Any LR users out there with any helpful advice on which would give most return on the extra outlay, and if the difference would really be that noticeable for any of the three options?
Considering the following spec for a Lightroom PC and odd bits of video editing, for a possible future Mavic Air purchase. No gaming intended and roughly £1k budget, plus a copy of Win10. Will be linked up to a 4K Dell IPS monitor and 6TB NAS backup I already have. Current thoughts are as below for these reasons:
- Best value of Ryzen CPU and GPU vs performance
- Not sure the X570 or B550 boards gives me anything more at the moment (assuming there's an upgrade path on the chosen board to a Ryzen 4th gen at some point in a few years...) - PCI3.0 M.2 drive should be more than fast enough for intended use
- OS etc would sit on the M2, with images etc on the 1TB SSD as the working disk. I also have a 128GB EVO840 that'll hold the LR catalogue and cache.
- Case tbc
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £129.95
- 1 x be quiet! Pure Rock 2 Black CPU Cooler - 120mm= £39.95
- 1 x Corsair Force MP510 series 480GB NVMe PCIe M.2 Solid State Drive (CSSD-F480GBMP510B)= £89.99
- 1 x TeamGroup 1TB Vulcan SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £99.95
- 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER OC 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £218.99
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £179.99
- 1 x Team Group 8Pack Edition 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/= £128.99
- 1 x be quiet! Pure Power 11 500W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £74.99
Total: £973.90 (includes shipping: £11.10)
Question though - if I could throw, say, an extra £150 at the build what would be best benefit for intended use?
- Ryzen 3700x with 2 extra cores?
- Extra 16GB RAM?
- GPU upgrade to 5700x? (Plus higher wattage PSU)
I can see pros and cons to all the above options - there's a law of diminishing returns on each one - LR generally plays better with NVidea vs AMD GPUs but the 5700x is about 25-30% faster on straight benchmarks, the extra 2 CPU cores may be of benefit, and my current i5-3470k/R7 250/16GB system does top out on RAM on occasion at 16GB so 32GB might help out there.
Any LR users out there with any helpful advice on which would give most return on the extra outlay, and if the difference would really be that noticeable for any of the three options?
