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I am in charge of the IT for a small family owned company. I usually build computers for the users that are best bang for the buck. Business type computers, not graphics workstations. For myself I use Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Sony Vegas, Premiere, etc... Since it takes a while to set up a computer, I don't like to do it often and when I build one for myself, I try to go bleeding edge so I don't have to do it again.
Last time, I built myself a workstation was in the spring of 2012. I used an Intel Core i7-3930K (hex core), 16GB DDR3, 256 EVO Pro boot, watercooled, etc.... I put in a 4 bay hotswap in the front of the case and started with 1-TB drives but now have 4TB & 6 TB drives. This system has worked fairly well for 5+ years except for the week when it tried to upgrade automatically to Win10 and wouldn't boot at all. I had to restore my boot drive from an image and have kept Win 7.
My computer is starting to drag. I have so many programs that I have installed and uninstalled, and just basic electronic sludge. I know I could wipe it and reinstall it would run fast again. The problem is that it takes me a week to get a new computer set up like I need. It seems that it would be better to do that on new hardware and have another 4-5 years without redoing it.
I figured I would start with the CPU that I wanted and work out from there for a system. My current i7-3930K has a passmark score of 12024 and a single thread score of 1936. These scores are still competitive with stuff that is brand new right now. Since Photoshop performs best on one or 2 fast cores better than multiple slower cores, I have been looking through the charts for a CPU that has high single thread score.
I found i7-7700K (quad) which has 12106 total and 2581 single. This is basically a wash in the total score and about a 33% jump in single thread.
Is this really going to be a much faster computer? I know I can use faster SSD now with M.2 and I can add a second SSD for Photoshop cache etc... But am I really going to have that much faster?
Looking at the Passmark scores for CPU and just going up until the price was too much to bear, I found this one: i7-7820X (octa) which has 18739 total and 2432 single. Single score is really close to the 7770K, and the total is a lot more.
Am I putting too much importance in the CPU Passmark? Are there motherboard or chipset improvements in the last 5 years that will make a significant speed increase?
Thanks
Last time, I built myself a workstation was in the spring of 2012. I used an Intel Core i7-3930K (hex core), 16GB DDR3, 256 EVO Pro boot, watercooled, etc.... I put in a 4 bay hotswap in the front of the case and started with 1-TB drives but now have 4TB & 6 TB drives. This system has worked fairly well for 5+ years except for the week when it tried to upgrade automatically to Win10 and wouldn't boot at all. I had to restore my boot drive from an image and have kept Win 7.
My computer is starting to drag. I have so many programs that I have installed and uninstalled, and just basic electronic sludge. I know I could wipe it and reinstall it would run fast again. The problem is that it takes me a week to get a new computer set up like I need. It seems that it would be better to do that on new hardware and have another 4-5 years without redoing it.
I figured I would start with the CPU that I wanted and work out from there for a system. My current i7-3930K has a passmark score of 12024 and a single thread score of 1936. These scores are still competitive with stuff that is brand new right now. Since Photoshop performs best on one or 2 fast cores better than multiple slower cores, I have been looking through the charts for a CPU that has high single thread score.
I found i7-7700K (quad) which has 12106 total and 2581 single. This is basically a wash in the total score and about a 33% jump in single thread.
Is this really going to be a much faster computer? I know I can use faster SSD now with M.2 and I can add a second SSD for Photoshop cache etc... But am I really going to have that much faster?
Looking at the Passmark scores for CPU and just going up until the price was too much to bear, I found this one: i7-7820X (octa) which has 18739 total and 2432 single. Single score is really close to the 7770K, and the total is a lot more.
Am I putting too much importance in the CPU Passmark? Are there motherboard or chipset improvements in the last 5 years that will make a significant speed increase?
Thanks
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