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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.  

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2 hours ago, w8kdrifter said:

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

SSD Benchmark.JPG

In certain cases such as this one an NVMe SSD can make sense.

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11 hours ago, w8kdrifter said:

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

SSD Benchmark.JPG

I have a similar configuration to yours (in my signature), with the 950PRO SSDCapture.PNG.cbf88a527aa25c985f61f9a36c4f56ff.PNG

 

 

The difference seems substantial from these benchmarks, although, their reliability may be questionable. 

 

That said, I would only keep LR on this disk, what I would do given the budget would be a 2nd SSD, maybe 500gb, to have my library, and then empty that SSD onto a HDD every year or so ( or according to how much storage I use for a given period of time, professionals may need to do this 1 every quarter or sooner, while more casual shooters could possibly hold everything there indefinitely). 

6700k|Hyper 212 EVO|Asus Z170 Deluxe|GTX970 STRIX|16gb 2400mhz Teamgroup memory|Samsung 950 PRO+ 2TB Seagate HDD| CM Realpower M1000|H440

 

Take a look at my flickr?:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/150012948@N06/

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@OP, Don't let the LR catalog grow too large, if it reaches a certain number of photos, create a new catalog or do as I do.  Create yearly catalogs.  Remember to clear out caches and unwanted/unneeded preview files (1:1, smart previews).  And remember to optimize the catalog regularly.

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