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Looking to sqeeze out more performance.

JBDan

JBDan

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Hello all,

I am looking for some solid advice here. Have not posted here in over a year....work has taken me elsewhere.

I currently have a 6750 intel cpu stock, WinXP, 4GB ram ddrII 800, and old raptor 64 GB. GFX card is Nvid gts 8800 512.

Main interest is editing photos (raw img's) using Nikon's Capture NX2. It is slow...maybe that is just the nature.

What would be my best bet to improve raw editing performance and also just overall for my PC? quad core? SSD? new mobo and faster ram? OC my 6750?

I do game some.

Thanks

 
Check if NX2 uses quad-core, if not, a bump to E8400 might help. If you're willing to go 64bit, you can bump your RAM to 8GB. Otherwise, I'm not sure how much improvement you can get. RAM is always faster than any disk, SSD, so max out on RAM first. Unless NX2 uses GPU for some acceleration, your 8800 should be pretty decent even on recent games.
 
Cheapest is obviously overclocking your E6750. You could easily get it to 3.2GHz but you could go quad as quads always help with encoding/photo editing but who knows if your mobo will support quad since we don't know what you have.
 
Sorry about that. I have an Asus P5N-E SLI mobo. It will support quad core.

I have dual boot also....Vista 64 Ultimate....but because I have issues gaming in UT3 with Vista I have worked my way back to WinXP.

My 4GB of corsair RAM is obviously 3.5GB as seen by WinXP, but it never even comes close to being maxed out even when editing RAW images.

Thanks for the prompt replies I have researched Capture NX2 and it looks as though it is NOT a multi-threaded (is that right word?) app.....or it does not take advantage multi-cores.

So does that essentially mean that with say a Q9550 I will see little to none improvement? If so I guess it is the software to blame unfortunately.

Thanks again for your advice
 
Bump up the e6750.

If the Raptor 64Gb is your only hard drive use it for your OS/Apps and buy a WD 640Gb for a working/capture/storage drive.

 
Buy the fastest Dual-core CPU you can get, if NX2 doesn't support multi-threading. Quad-core will be no help, and maybe even worse. Since you're not maxing out on RAM with 4GB, then you don't need more RAM either.
 
1. Install an AC Freezer 7 Pro. It's a sweet balance of nice quiet cooling at a good price.
2. OC your E6750 (2.66GHz), up to 3.2GHz (800 FSB).

That's a solid plan on squeezing more performance out of your current components...
On the cheap. :thumbsup::laugh:
 
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