Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Any thoughts about dedicated gaming computers? With the increased AI in Adobe products a fast internet helps. Don don.dory at gmail.com On Wed, Jul 9, 2025, 12:10?PM Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > This is a help article.... > > My Desktop system is running fine but it is 9 Years old..... My laptop > is 10 years old... > > I decided to try out a new Laptop, about 2 model years old.... > > I wondered if they were getting too long in the tooth.... so I made some > measurements.... > > I used a set of 5 images that needed to be stitched. They were put on a > thumb drive, a new catalog was created, LR was updated to the most > recent updates. > > The results showed that my 9 year old desktop computer was almost > exactly TWICE AS SLOW as the new laptop. I know that my older Laptop is > even slower....it is an I5 processor. > > To be fair, I am retired, an amateur photographer, which all means that > time is NOT money.....slow and cheap makes more sense. > > Then again, how slow is too slow? > > So I started to look at new hardware...... and read a lot of > articles..... and consulted a lot of AI produced evaluations, all of > which led to these conclusions..... > > No matter what your computer's age, do this to make it go faster.... > > MORE RAM!!! RAM is cheap. If your computer can upgrade to 32gb or 48 > or 64, do it..... Just fill it up. > > Have your LR Catalog on a SSD inside your computer. This is a major > speed improvement. The SSD should NOT be a slower SATA version . > > It is fastest to keep your images on internal SSD as well, but depending > on how many images you have, this may be impractical. > > NAS is fast but complex to keep running. Slower is an external USB SSD > drive, and slower yet is a moving disk USB HDD. > > If you are buying a new computer, get an I7 processor (cores matter with > some operations in LR)..... More cores = Better.... > > I9 is more cores and $$$ but reports are that they are not that much > faster. Stay away form the I5 or I3 processors. > > LR uses more cores when it is making previews or exporting > images.....For single (common) image edits, not at all. > > You should select a graphics card with at least 6GB of video ram. > NVIDIA is apparently more stable than AMD. The Intel graphics solutions > are workable but if you want to run faster, get the discrete graphics > card solution. > > > If you wish help, ask me..... > > -- Frank Filippone BMWRed735i at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information