Oh yeah, I'm just talking about the price of the CPU, not the whole PC. I'm planning on doing all out on RAM and solid state drives as well. I guess GPU might be of some concern as well, how has GPU processing in dark table on Linux been going lately? I know it exists, but I'm always scared of anything to do with graphics drivers on Linux
On February 4, 2018 1:16:22 PM PST, "Šarūnas" <saru...@mail.saabnet.com> wrote: >On 02/04/2018 02:41 PM, Robert Bieber wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I think it's time to finally replace the computer I built five-ish >years >> ago. It was a good machine at the time, but since then my RAW files >> have gone from 8MP to 16MP and now to 40, and running more expensive >> iops, especially with masks and so on, is getting to be pretty >sluggish. >> >> I haven't really kept up with PC hardware in the meantime, so I'm >> curious what y'all would recommend for CPUs. How much is a decent >> amount to spend for something high-end in the US market? I'm >guessing >> that dropping a grand on something/really/ high end is probably >> unnecessary, but maybe I'm wrong. > >It may depend on where on Earth, but “grand” as in ~1000USD, will only >get you half-way, at best, to a high end PC... > >You may want to check AMD Ryzen 5/7 + some higher-end GPUs, NVMe solid >state storage, healthy amounts of RAM. > >-- >Šarūnas Burdulis >math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
