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Sonny · **Speeding up Lightroom, not so Cheap -** 01-08-2012, 09:51 PM

What are your thoughts?

Speeding up Lightroom, not so Cheap | foto-biz.com

KdLaneJr · 01-08-2012, 10:02 PM

Sounds like he received a significant performance boost for far less than $750, or.., CHEAP! So what's he whining about?

Rson · 01-08-2012, 10:59 PM

Bull**** and psychosomatic.

I should invite him to use my system, then i will drop the video card to a POS and he will notice that video cards are for gamers not editors.

TheFantasticG · 01-08-2012, 11:18 PM

Hey Rich, wouldn't it have been better to get a SATA III SSD instead of upgrading the graphics card? I mean to increase the speed of the application.

Rson · 01-08-2012, 11:30 PM

Oh hell yeah

Rson · 01-08-2012, 11:34 PM

My guess is that the video card was a "soft" card that used system memory to run. When poster added a larger card, the ram was free'd up.

Tom · 01-08-2012, 11:48 PM

Adding a crazy fast SSD was the best thing I ever did for my computer. Kicked all kinds of new life in here.

Rson · 01-08-2012, 11:51 PM

That is the only way i build......SSD main, Raid 0 Scratch and mirrored backup.

Fast as hell.

contributor_M · 01-09-2012, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rson

Bull**** and psychosomatic.

I should invite him to use my system, then i will drop the video card to a POS and he will notice that video cards are for gamers not editors.

This!!!!!

I did have a nice chuckle reading the link Sonny posted.

Flores · 01-09-2012, 07:23 AM

Uggg. I feel like I've just taken photography advice from someone who shoots $5 digital portraits with an iPhone hipstamatic.

It's so much better because it has MORE MEGAPIXEL things!!!

Jake · 01-09-2012, 08:13 AM

I've heard from some video guys that claim to see a pretty good improvement in Premiere and After Effects using the newer nvidia cards.
Built for Adobe Professionals - Adobe Creative Suite 5

As far as I can tell lightroom doesn't use gpu acceleration. But if you do video editing you may want to look into it.

Flores · 01-09-2012, 08:19 AM

CUDA GPUs are awesome, if the software can use them. I built up a nice gaming machine with a couple of them, so I could run 3 screen wide sim racing (iRacing)...

the free triple screen software beat the heck out of the graphics card, though.

aksthem1 · 01-09-2012, 08:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rson

My guess is that the video card was a "soft" card that used system memory to run. When poster added a larger card, the ram was free'd up.

Budget OEM cards still use their built in memory, but they also tend to use system memory.

That article makes me want to punch newborn kittens though.

Rson · 01-09-2012, 09:25 AM

If you look at the form factor, the card is no larger than a old school modem. Screams to me soft-card. I emailed the author and called BS....lets say at this point I will stick to trusting the MWACAttack lady more for advice than this guy. :)

darktiger · 01-09-2012, 03:25 PM

I say SSD... I have 4 of them in my main system... Also I upgraded my RAM to 24GB and made 12GB of it a scratch disk (for things like cache, etc).. talk about fast... since writing to memory is a hell lot faster than even writing to a performance SSD...