Where to spend £500?

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Brazo

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Hi all

I have £500 to spend to ‘update’ my pc which is used primarily for photoshop and Lightroom with some light gaming.

Current spec is
Dell 25 inch 1440p monitor
7700k at 4.5
16gb ram
128gb nvme os drive
1050ti 4gb
Numerous ssd’s For storage. Plenty in fact.

I am considering delidding the 7700k and pushing it to 5. I think I’ll do this regardless.

I would like to get a 500 gb nvme os drive and upgrade to 32gb ram. All the above would meet my budget but I just saw the Dell P2715q 4K monitor for £500 and thought that may be money better spent as I’m not sure how useful an extra 16gb ram is in the real world?
 
depends on the work doing. If this is a career/work based system then would be pushing the best monitor you can get with adobe rgb scale, 4k if you work with hi res images/work scene and calibration kit if work goes to print.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...D-Threadripper-2990WX-2950X-Performance-1215/

as you can see, core speed on 4 cores still the key to photoshop - higher you can clock that i7 the better

with lightroom, different story and more threads does play a difference

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Lightroom-Classic-CC-Version-7-2-Performance-1110/

gpu wouldnt make much difference bar gaming

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Photoshop-CC-2018-NVIDIA-GeForce-vs-AMD-Radeon-Vega-1197/

would be looking at 1060gtx min for light low level 1440p gaming , not not, knock back to 1080p
 
assuming you got an ATX case, then sell your i7 bits keeping your current 16gb ram depending on speed and buy this to add your 1050ti too, be a worthy upgrade as the extra 4 cores will help you greatly

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £569.06 (includes shipping: £11.10)​
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or without selling anything and just using your £500 then drop to 6 core, but a 2nd gen version

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £448.46 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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will still further improve your system.
 
Thank you both. Would seem more cores are better for batch processing tasks perhaps rather than just pushing the sliders? Even so worth considering.

Not a pro so monitor is a nice to have rather than essential.
 
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