Upgrade My CPU?

[landscaper1]

I've got a tower with an Asus P8B75-M/CSM motherboard with an i5 CPU and 16gb of RAM. Is there any real advantage in upgrading to an i7 CPU? The i7-3770 appears to be the fastest option compatible with the P8B75-M/CSM.

Or will the upgrade from the i5 have little perceptive difference in post processing use?

 

[Wild Turkey73]

Do you have noticeable lag time now? What do you expect to gain?

I'm fixing to upgrade to an i5 from a 2 GHz AMD 9500 because of lag time and RAM problems.

 

[landscaper1]

Do you have noticeable lag time now? What do you expect to gain?

I'm fixing to upgrade to an i5 from a 2 GHz AMD 9500 because of lag time and RAM problems.

Actually, I do have noticeable lag times now, but I'm also looking to the future when I expect to be working with even larger files than I am now. Maybe from a 5DS/DSr?

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Landscaper

 

[Austinian]

Do you have noticeable lag time now? What do you expect to gain?

I'm fixing to upgrade to an i5 from a 2 GHz AMD 9500 because of lag time and RAM problems.

Actually, I do have noticeable lag times now, but I'm also looking to the future when I expect to be working with even larger files than I am now. Maybe from a 5DS/DSr?

In that case, I'd suggest a more comprehensive upgrade to a new motherboard/CPU/memory, if not a complete new PC.

 

[tkbslc]

I've got a tower with an Asus P8B75-M/CSM motherboard with an i5 CPU and 16gb of RAM. Is there any real advantage in upgrading to an i7 CPU? The i7-3770 appears to be the fastest option compatible with the P8B75-M/CSM.

Or will the upgrade from the i5 have little perceptive difference in post processing use?

 

[landscaper1]

Do you have noticeable lag time now? What do you expect to gain?

I'm fixing to upgrade to an i5 from a 2 GHz AMD 9500 because of lag time and RAM problems.

Actually, I do have noticeable lag times now, but I'm also looking to the future when I expect to be working with even larger files than I am now. Maybe from a 5DS/DSr?

In that case, I'd suggest a more comprehensive upgrade to a new motherboard/CPU/memory, if not a complete new PC.

Out of the question. Back to my original query.

 

[landscaper1]

I've got a tower with an Asus P8B75-M/CSM motherboard with an i5 CPU and 16gb of RAM. Is there any real advantage in upgrading to an i7 CPU? The i7-3770 appears to be the fastest option compatible with the P8B75-M/CSM.

Or will the upgrade from the i5 have little perceptive difference in post processing use?

 

[Austinian]

Do you have noticeable lag time now? What do you expect to gain?

I'm fixing to upgrade to an i5 from a 2 GHz AMD 9500 because of lag time and RAM problems.

Actually, I do have noticeable lag times now, but I'm also looking to the future when I expect to be working with even larger files than I am now. Maybe from a 5DS/DSr?

In that case, I'd suggest a more comprehensive upgrade to a new motherboard/CPU/memory, if not a complete new PC.

Out of the question. Back to my original query.

Then don't expect much improvement.

 

[tkbslc]

I've got a tower with an Asus P8B75-M/CSM motherboard with an i5 CPU and 16gb of RAM. Is there any real advantage in upgrading to an i7 CPU? The i7-3770 appears to be the fastest option compatible with the P8B75-M/CSM.

Or will the upgrade from the i5 have little perceptive difference in post processing use?

 

[landscaper1]

Which i5? If it is an i5-2400S then my answer is going to be different than if it is an i5-3570K.

i5-3470.

Then pretty much the only thing you will gain going to the i7-3770 is hyper-threading. That would enable 4 virtual cores that can add up to 50% performance gain during long running multi-threaded tasks. I would not expect in program editing performance to change at all. Batch processing large number of RAW to jpeg or video rendering could get up to 50% faster.

I would not upgrade the processor in this system. Hang on until you are ready to do a whole system upgrade.

Do you have an SSD or GPU? Those may be worthwhile upgrades that will be transferable to a new system down the road.

I have an SSD and an NVIDIA GT610 GPU? I store my program software on the SSD and keep all my own files on a separate HDD.

 

[tkbslc]

Which i5? If it is an i5-2400S then my answer is going to be different than if it is an i5-3570K.

i5-3470.

Then pretty much the only thing you will gain going to the i7-3770 is hyper-threading. That would enable 4 virtual cores that can add up to 50% performance gain during long running multi-threaded tasks. I would not expect in program editing performance to change at all. Batch processing large number of RAW to jpeg or video rendering could get up to 50% faster.

I would not upgrade the processor in this system. Hang on until you are ready to do a whole system upgrade.

Do you have an SSD or GPU? Those may be worthwhile upgrades that will be transferable to a new system down the road.

I have an SSD and an NVIDIA GT610 GPU? I store my program software on the SSD and keep all my own files on a separate HDD.

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Landscaper

You are probably all good, then. Even a brand new computer isn't going to provide what I would call significant improvements.

 

[landscaper1]

Which i5? If it is an i5-2400S then my answer is going to be different than if it is an i5-3570K.

i5-3470.

Then pretty much the only thing you will gain going to the i7-3770 is hyper-threading. That would enable 4 virtual cores that can add up to 50% performance gain during long running multi-threaded tasks. I would not expect in program editing performance to change at all. Batch processing large number of RAW to jpeg or video rendering could get up to 50% faster.

I would not upgrade the processor in this system. Hang on until you are ready to do a whole system upgrade.

Do you have an SSD or GPU? Those may be worthwhile upgrades that will be transferable to a new system down the road.

I have an SSD and an NVIDIA GT610 GPU? I store my program software on the SSD and keep all my own files on a separate HDD.

 

[tkbslc]

Which i5? If it is an i5-2400S then my answer is going to be different than if it is an i5-3570K.

i5-3470.

Then pretty much the only thing you will gain going to the i7-3770 is hyper-threading. That would enable 4 virtual cores that can add up to 50% performance gain during long running multi-threaded tasks. I would not expect in program editing performance to change at all. Batch processing large number of RAW to jpeg or video rendering could get up to 50% faster.

I would not upgrade the processor in this system. Hang on until you are ready to do a whole system upgrade.

Do you have an SSD or GPU? Those may be worthwhile upgrades that will be transferable to a new system down the road.

I have an SSD and an NVIDIA GT610 GPU? I store my program software on the SSD and keep all my own files on a separate HDD.

 

[Robert Zanatta]

You won't see much benefit unless you can overclock the processor. With decent cooling, you could see a boost in single core performance of up to 30%, and multicore of up to 70%.

Otherwise you're looking at 10% single, 40% multi.

Those are rough numbers based on basic CPU benchmarks.

For editing, 10% isn't much of a difference.

 

[landscaper1]

You won't see much benefit unless you can overclock the processor. With decent cooling, you could see a boost in single core performance of up to 30%, and multicore of up to 70%.

Otherwise you're looking at 10% single, 40% multi.

Those are rough numbers based on basic CPU benchmarks.

For editing, 10% isn't much of a difference.

No, it's not, not for the expense. Thanks for your replies.

 

[landscaper1]

That said, there is room on the MB for another 16MB of RAM. Do you think it would be worthwhile for me to invest int that?

 

[Bunjo]

You could look here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/cpu-charts-2015/benchmarks,187.html for some figures. However you have to ask yourself if you will see any *appreciable* difference. Some of the benchmarks show differences of a few hundredths of a second. Once you are into i5 vs i7 there is little visible difference in real time and most photo editing software cannot make full use of more than a few cores. Video editing is a different matter where more cores matter.

Similarly faster memory makes little appreciable difference (unless you are upgrading from way old stuff). SSDs do make a difference but only for 'disk' read and write activities.

Modern GPUs are pretty much of a muchness for photo editing if you are using ordinary desktop photo editing software. See http://www.lightroomqueen.com/blog/ for the impact of various technologies and settings on Lightroom.

I'd save your money with a view to moving to a whol new PC rather later - and when the software of your choice has been updated to make use of the newer technologies.

 

[fishy wishy]

I've got a tower with an Asus P8B75-M/CSM motherboard with an i5 CPU and 16gb of RAM. Is there any real advantage in upgrading to an i7 CPU? The i7-3770 appears to be the fastest option compatible with the P8B75-M/CSM.

Or will the upgrade from the i5 have little perceptive difference in post processing use?

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Landscaper

I take it you are takling about waiting for photo processing operations to finish whilst sat before the computer, since I don't know any landscape shooters who blitz thousands of shots in a weekend.

I would never have upgraded from the first generation quads if it weren't for noise reduction programs and batch processing en masse. 6 cores with a 3x memory bandwidth architecture gave doubled performance when it came along, so I went with that. Going sideways from a 4-core i5 to a 4-core i7 sounds a waste of time.

 

[Robert Zanatta]

Didn't say anything about the expense. For all I know you could get the processor for free.

 

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What software do you use?