Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: PeterAit on July 27, 2018, 10:01:15 am
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It's been about 8 years since I bought my computer (Windows) - a Dell desktop with a Core i7 (940) CPU at 2.93 GHZ. I upgraded it since then with scads of RAM and all SSD. But I'm sure that CPU and motherboard technology has marched onward in those 8 years. I am wondering how much of a performance boost I might expect from a CPU/m-board upgrade. This is used for LR and PS. To be honest6, the system is fast enough for me, but as they say, more faster, more better!
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Depends on your overall budget. There are a lot up upsides to a newer motherboard/cpu, mostly around the number of PCIe lanes for NVMe drives, and better graphics cards due to PCIe 3.0 bandwidth. Not sure on your Win7/Win10 stance, but make sure your purchase jives with it - 7th & 8th Gen Core & Ryzen are not supported by Windows 7, but if you're in for a few hacks there's always a way.
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8 years..... just do it. You will notice a dramatic increase in speed. No need to elaborate on the particulars as in 8 years everything has gotten faster and better.
Victor
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Put in that equation RAM memory. That CPU uses DDR3 memory, any new motherboard+CPU today will require DDR4 memory.
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I am also in for a new computer after 10 years! and expect a factor 4 in speed gain.
GPU has becom much faster ( open CL factor 10)
M.2 memory- 2500 mb/sec ( the original harddisk did 50 mb/sec- they are at now about 200mb/sec)
CPU about 4x faster
Ram factor 4 faster
and you need a motherboard to support all that fastness
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You will be blown away by the advance is speed and processing from 8 years ago. Last fall, I replaced my 4 year old AMD FX9590 with a new Ryzen 1800x build. I was blown away by both the stability I gained and the speed. I went from a max of 32GB RAM to 64GB. I gained HUGE amounts of speed when my Samsung 850EVO SSD was replaced by the Samsung 960 Pro NVMe SSD. My graphics card went from a Radeon R9 390 to an nVidia GTX1080.
What I'm saying is, the components and technology from 8yrs ago is like going from a vintage 1950s sedan to a 2018 Mustang. If you are truly interested in a boost, make the (at times) painful upgrade. Painful because it's a pain in the butt to reinstall everything -- if you have much software installed.