Re: Computer Build for Photo Editing - Need Recommendations
I would agree with keeping computers running for several years. The raw performance increases are just not so great now as they used to be, and it is quite feasible to upgrade peripherals over time (I added an SSD and some other bits). I replaced my Q6600 with an i5-3570K 6 months ago, and when i checked the CPU performance (both online benchmarks and myself) it turns out that the i5 is actually only ~2x the speed of the Q6600 unless you are video encoding with quicksync or you need to use the VM instructions or encryption acceleration that modern CPUs have. Thats a 2x speed-up in 5 years of development. Compare to when i bought a Pentium 100 and a year later upgraded to the 200Mhz...
In truth the only reason i upgraded the Q6600 was that i needed more RAM (i had 4Gb) and the machine was becoming unstable due to a failing PSU. I figured that as i was changing PSU and RAM anyway, i might as well do the motherboard and CPU whilst i was there.
We still have a number of Pentium 4\'s floating around at work doing a good job as data collection / instrument control computers. I even had a P4 as my office desktop until january when they pretty much forced an upgrade on me as part of the Win7 roll out.
Dec 27, 2012 at 07:08 AM
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