Production workstation

[w8kdrifter]

I currently have an Asus Z170 Deluxe mobo, 16gb 3200 DDR4 Corsair Vengeance LPX Ram, and an Intel i7 6700k cpu with a GTX 1060 on the way for a graphics card. 

 

My question is whether any one of these components could be upgraded to drastically speed up photo editing in Lightroom when merging multi-exposure shots? I am now charging to take real estate photos on the side and I find that doing a lot of the processing of multi-exposure shots takes a while (30 seconds to 1 min per photo). I would like to get this down to a few seconds per photo to increase productivity, if possible. Not sure if 32gb of ram would speed this up, different CPU??? 

 

Thanks. 

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[Technomancer__]

2 minutes ago, w8kdrifter said:

I currently have an Asus Z170 Deluxe mobo, 16gb 3200 DDR4 Corsair Vengeance LPX Ram, and an Intel i7 6700k cpu with a GTX 1060 on the way for a graphics card. 

 

My question is whether any one of these components could be upgraded to drastically speed up photo editing in Lightroom? I am now charging to take real estate photos on the side and I find that doing a lot of the processing of multi-exposure shots takes a while (30 seconds to 1 min per photo). I would like to get this down to a few seconds per photo to increase productivity, if possible. Not sure if 32gb of ram would speed this up, different CPU??? 

 

Thanks. 

Get a r7 1700 with a b350 mobo like the Asus prime b350 or if you will sli in the feature get an x370 like the Asus prime x370

[domandric034]

Just now, Ethocreeper said:

Get a r7 1700 with a b350 mobo like the Asus prime b350 or if you will sli in the feature get an x370 like the Asus prime x370

Completely agree but I prefer more ASRock X370 Taichi. Design is sick.

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[Technomancer__]

Just now, domandric034 said:

Completely agree but I prefer more ASRock X370 Taichi. Design is sick.

I heard that the MSI pc mate b350 is also very good

Eh whatever he prefers. Personally I don't give a shit about looks

[w8kdrifter]

3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

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Thanks, sorry about that. 

[w8kdrifter]

Would overclocking my current cpu help? I am not sure if Lightroom is CPU intensive or RAM intensive? I don't want to make changes for the sake of making changes. Would prefer to change out one or two components on current system (if needed) rather than change out the entire mobo, cpu and ram...

[done12many2]

11 minutes ago, w8kdrifter said:

I currently have an Asus Z170 Deluxe mobo, 16gb 3200 DDR4 Corsair Vengeance LPX Ram, and an Intel i7 6700k cpu with a GTX 1060 on the way for a graphics card. 

 

My question is whether any one of these components could be upgraded to drastically speed up photo editing in Lightroom when merging multi-exposure shots? I am now charging to take real estate photos on the side and I find that doing a lot of the processing of multi-exposure shots takes a while (30 seconds to 1 min per photo). I would like to get this down to a few seconds per photo to increase productivity, if possible. Not sure if 32gb of ram would speed this up, different CPU??? 

 

Thanks. 

 

To answer your question, it depends on what tasks you're doing within Lightroom.  Some things benefit greatly from high single-threaded performance, while others from stronger multi-threaded performance.  It's a constant back and forth and no one chip (4, 6 or 8 core) will give you the best performance in every task.  

 

You need to determine what it is that you do the most while overlooking some type of resource monitoring software to determine if it's a single or multi threaded task.  If it's more single-threaded tasks, shoot for improving your clockspeeds or consider upgrading to a 7700k and even better, overclocking it.  

 

Check out this article from Puget Systems about Lightroom.

 

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Lightroom-CC-2015-8-Intel-Core-i7-7700K-i5-7600K-Performance-880/

 

Hopefully this helps.  

[TheCherryKing]

Getting a faster SSD will also improve performance.

[Electronics Wizardy]

16 minutes ago, Ethocreeper said:

Get a r7 1700 with a b350 mobo like the Asus prime b350 or if you will sli in the feature get an x370 like the Asus prime x370

Well that will be slower as light room likes single threaded speed of the i7. That's the best chip you can buy now. 

[w8kdrifter]

8 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

 

To answer your question, it depends on what tasks you're doing within Lightroom.  Some things benefit greatly from high single-threaded performance, while others from stronger multi-threaded performance.  It's a constant back and forth and no one chip (4, 6 or 8 core) will give you the best performance in every task.  

 

You need to determine what it is that you do the most while overlooking some type of resource monitoring software to determine if single or multi threading is what helps you the most.  If it's more single-threaded task, shoot for improving your clockspeeds or consider upgrading to a 7700k and even better, overclocking it.  

 

Check out this article from Puget Systems about Lightroom.

 

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Lightroom-CC-2015-8-Intel-Core-i7-7700K-i5-7600K-Performance-880/

 

Hopefully this helps.  

Perfect article - exactly the information I was looking for! Thank you. Looks like my current set up is good for now. Don't save all that much time in processing by upgrading to the 7700k. I'll keep what I have and upgrade when there is a more substantial time-saving option available. 

[PCGuy_5960]

1 hour ago, Ethocreeper said:

Get a r7 1700 with a b350 mobo like the Asus prime b350 or if you will sli in the feature get an x370 like the Asus prime x370

1 hour ago, domandric034 said:

Completely agree but I prefer more ASRock X370 Taichi. Design is sick.

Guys.... Adobe is single core intensive..... Ryzen is a downgrade

[domandric034]

8 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Guys.... Adobe is single core intensive..... Ryzen is a downgrade

Not if you put CUDA in use

And for that price it isn't downgrade. Especially for budget video editing rigs $1000-$2000

[PCGuy_5960]

1 minute ago, domandric034 said:

Not if you put CUDA in use

If you use CUDA, Ryzen becomes better. What you just said makes no sense

[domandric034]

Just now, PCGuy_5960 said:

If you use CUDA, Ryzen becomes better. What you just said makes no sense

U use CUDA for export (rendering) and Ryzen for everything else but still for the price Ryzen sells it isn't downgrade. 

[PCGuy_5960]

2 minutes ago, domandric034 said:

And for that price it isn't downgrade. Especially for budget video editing rigs $1000-$2000

It is a downgrade, did you not even take a look at the chart I linked?

[PCGuy_5960]

Just now, domandric034 said:

U use CUDA for export (rendering) and Ryzen for everything else but still for the price Ryzen sells it isn't downgrade. 

What does this graph tell ya?

10 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

 

[domandric034]

Just now, PCGuy_5960 said:

It is a downgrade, did you not even take a look at the chart I linked?

No I didn't. Sorry

I am half blind (lost my left eye in car accident 10 years ago)

[domandric034]

Just now, PCGuy_5960 said:

What does this graph tell ya?

 

Tells me that you are trying to brainwash me to support Intel.

[PCGuy_5960]

Just now, domandric034 said:

Tells me that you are trying to brainwash me to support Intel.

LOL, no. It tells you that Ryzen is not an upgrade since the OP ALREADY HAS the 6700K and switching to Ryzen won't really give him better performance

[domandric034]

Just now, PCGuy_5960 said:

LOL, no. It tells you that Ryzen is not an upgrade since the OP ALREADY HAS the 6700K and switching to Ryzen won't really give him better performance

I KNOW IT HAS GOD FUCKING 6700K. AND I KNOW SWITCHING WONT GIVE LARGE INCREASE. THAT CPU SHOULD LAST HIM ATLEAST 6 YEARS.

[PCGuy_5960]

Just now, domandric034 said:

I KNOW IT HAS GOD FUCKING 6700K. AND I KNOW SWITCHING WONT GIVE LARGE INCREASE. 

Then why is Ryzen an upgrade? 

[domandric034]

1 minute ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Then why is Ryzen an upgrade? 

Ask that @Ethocreeper cause he suggested. I only gave my opinions on x370 mobo. And I forgot to tell that it isn't upgrade from 6th gen. Only from 4 th or older.

[DocSwag]

2 hours ago, domandric034 said:

I KNOW IT HAS GOD FUCKING 6700K. AND I KNOW SWITCHING WONT GIVE LARGE INCREASE. THAT CPU SHOULD LAST HIM ATLEAST 6 YEARS.

Well his CPU is perfectly fine now. It seems to me that keeping it for now and upgrading in 1-2 years will result in him being able to keep the CPU for longer and have better performance.

[w8kdrifter]

5 hours ago, TheCherryKing said:

Getting a faster SSD will also improve performance.

Any idea on how much I can improve performance with his change? I currently run a Samsung EVO 850 500 GB SSD. I do have an M.2 slot on my mobo...here is my latest benchmark using Samsung Magician software with current SSD