Looking for some advice.....
I have a 2010 Mac Pro with a Quad core 2.8 Ghz, 16 GB of RAM, an ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024mb, and a 1TB hard drive. I am in a position to afford to upgrade some of the components.
Most of my photography is dealing with large volumes of images from school shoots, portraits and weddings and almost all are edited in Lightroom. However I also shoot quite a bit of video and edit that in Final Cut Pro X.
My thoughts/intentions are to install a 480GB SSD to speed things up, and it has also been suggested that the video card might be a bottleneck and to upgrade to something with 3GB of onboard memory. I have looked at the OWC Mercury Accelsior PCI SSD. I see that it is also possible to swap out the Processor and upgrade to a 6-core 3.46 and there is a company her in the UK who would do that for in the region of £500.
Any thought or advice on the route to faster performance without going overboard? My inclination is to stay with the Mac Pro and I have a new Eizo monitor to go with it.
Many thanks
Jim