Bit the Bullet

[Ruidoso Bill]

Got a new pc to hopefully speed up processing. i7 4790 3.6Ghz, 32GB Ram and 2 GB Video ram, 2TB Hard drive, windows 8.1. I will be replacing the power supply with a 750 w and adding a second 4 TB hard drive. I am doing a lot of real estate photography and doing a lot of photomatix fusion, wow with large files it can slow down a machine, hope the new one is up for the challenge! I figured time is money and sitting there waiting on the machine just doesn't cut it anymore. Old machine had an AMD quadcore, 16GB Ram, 1GB Video and a 1TB & 4TB hard drive, just too slow. I researched and the i7's should be the way to go.

 

[paul04]

My i5 with 16Gb memory keeps up quite well, I don't have much software on the PC, I always think the more stuff on the PC the harder it has to work.

You should have no problems with your new setup.

 

[10 Gauge]

I'm due for an upgrade as well! Maybe before summer is out. I'm running an AMD 6-core, 16gb ram, and 12TB of storage drives with a 256gb SSD OS/App drive and it still works out pretty well but it would be nice to cut out that small bit of lag loading each image for editing, etc. I've had the same rig now for about 5 years, so it's more than ready for a reboot.

 

[Horoscope Fish]

If it's not too late you might want to give some serious consideration to installing at least one SSD drive.

The difference in boot/access times versus standard HDD's is truly remarkable (!!!).
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[Ruidoso Bill]

If it's not too late you might want to give some serious consideration to installing at least one SSD drive.

The difference in boot/access times versus standard HDD's is truly remarkable (!!!).
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Already too late, no ssd (at least not yet), machine seems pretty fast, loading it up now. I really need one that can crunch some images, typical high end 1-3 Million home I shootdue to brackets 500 images, usually end up with 40 or so finished images, thus the crunching. I have 6TB of hard drives in the machine and another 8 TB of NAS. Funny how TB is the new GB.

 

[Ruidoso Bill]

My i5 with 16Gb memory keeps up quite well, I don't have much software on the PC, I always think the more stuff on the PC the harder it has to work.

You should have no problems with your new setup.

My wife runs autocad programs for kitchen design with an i5, the 3d rendering demands a lot but her i5 keeps up very well.

 

[Ruidoso Bill]

just did some test runs, it is much, much faster than what I had. Fusion of 5 brackets raw +/- 30 mb each (12 bit lossless to reduce size) was very fast, this will save me time indeed.