Bottleneck that can be fixed? Or new system?

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One for either here or the Post Processing forum but suspect here is the better place...

I've upgraded my camera to a D810 and the "rendering" time for a raw file in Lightroom (from first displaying to showing the full resolution image) is around 30 seconds. I guess something in my system is acting as a bottleneck and want to know if it's something I can solve by throwing kit at it, or whether the system is just finally getting old. I know it's not the newest system on the planet, but this is genuinely the first time I've really had an issue with anything speed or spec wise, including light - moderate gaming!

I've got a stock i5 3570K, 16Gb RAM, NVidia GTX 670, 2 x SSD (1 boot, 1 program files) and 3 large SATA drives for storage, including a 3tb partition on a 4tb disk for photos.

Any thoughts? As I said, all stock, not felt the need to overclock anything, and also not something I've done before, though all top spec components with overclocking in mind.
 
Very strange, I have a laptop that is nowhere near as powerful as your PC.

24 MP raw files render in 7 seconds.

Yes it 24mp and not 36mp but the PC is not even half the power of your PC and has no dedicated GPU at all
 
should say for the sake of clarity I mean rendering at 100% to check sharpness, rather than general display. Didn't seem to have too much of a problem with my D7100, though looking now it's taking around 8 seconds to finish rendering at 100%. If it's previously rendered fully it doesn't seem to take quite as long, and it's too long to easily make a comparison between 2 images when rating one against another.
 
Have you tried putting a photo on ssd and opening it from the ssd to see what effect that has on 1:1 render times?

Once you've solved whatever is causing the problem I would overclock that chip to speed things up even more!
 
Just tried that, no real difference :( However I noticed the option to generate 1:1 previews on import, rather than as you view the image, which I guess should speed up the workflow, though it'll blow the catalogue size I guess :/ Hmm....

Yeh, maybe overclocking might be worth a shot as well!
 
Have you watched task manager/resource monitor to see what's going on?
CPU/memory consumption/disk activity?

Or try moo0 system monitor as that will monitor your GPU too.
 
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