upgrade componants for light photo editing

heton · 16 Dec 2015 at 21:18

Hi, have started shooting raw files and doing light pic editing in viewnx 2 i.e sharpness ,cropping etc.
At the min when i do any editing it seems to take ages to materialise on screen, so i was wondering what would be the cheapest componant upgrade route to take on my existing comp to beef it up a bit.

Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail

Kingston 60GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gbs 3 2.5"

MSI H81M-P33 Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard

Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit

Thanks Clifford

stulid · 16 Dec 2015 at 21:39

More RAM.

Drop a i5 or i7 into the board.

heton · 16 Dec 2015 at 21:51

Thanks stulid, there are seven i5 processors on the overclockers site, which one would you suggest, oh which ram also...link would be nice.
cj

stulid · 16 Dec 2015 at 21:54

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYED38G1600HC9DC01)= £31.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYED316G1600HC9DC01)= £59.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4590 3.30GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail= £155.99

Total: £257.87
(includes shipping: £9.90)

Two choices of RAM, do you have a suitable 64bit OS to see more than 4GB of RAM?

heton · 16 Dec 2015 at 22:06

Thanks, so do away with my old memory altogether.
cj

stulid · 16 Dec 2015 at 22:07

Your board only has two slots for RAM so you have to bin it/sell it on.

heton · 16 Dec 2015 at 22:10

should have started of with better spec, but it was good enough for what i was doing at the time. cheers
cj

heton · 17 Dec 2015 at 16:26

Stulid, I am running windows 7 64bit
cj

heton · 17 Dec 2015 at 21:15

1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYED316G1600HC9DC01)= £59.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4590 3.30GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail= £155.99
Ordered, thanks again stulid

heton · 21 Dec 2015 at 16:29

Hi, Do I need to make any changes in bios when i add the new processor and new ram?
Thanks

Avenged7Fold · 21 Dec 2015 at 16:55

Not for the new RAM, possible that you might need a bios update for the chip. I would check the supported list and see.

heton · 21 Dec 2015 at 20:49

Thanks ,Will do

McGraw · 21 Dec 2015 at 23:08

Try another raw editor first.

My raws are 25mb, I only go over 8gb when editing large panoramas.

Editing one at a time shouldn't need 4gb so just try that first.

Could you have terrible graphics card that is slow to draw the images?

heton · 23 Dec 2015 at 20:17

Thanks Mcgraw, no graphics card...using the core i5 intergrated graphics.
The upgrade to i5 plus the 16gb ram has made the difference.

varkanoid · 24 Dec 2015 at 11:30

Consider a cheap nvidia card as photo editing software can sometimes make use of CUDA to speed up photo manipulation too.Not sure whether ViewNX2 uses it but an article back in 2012 (version 2.3.1 was latest) said that it didnt use CUDA but could in the future and version 2.3.1 or later now uses multicore CPU's.