i5 4690 16gb ram and SSD for lightroom CC

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Looking (still) at putting some new bits in my old dell tower and using the Dell case, power supply and 256gb SSD and tetra HD currently in the Dell
Plan to get i5 4690, 16 gb ram and decent mother board, will have tthe built in graphis 4600, wodering if its worth getting a GPU to help lightroom CC?
Don`t play games so most intensive use woud be lightroom and a little photoshop. Dell power spply is 300 wattt so got to bear that in mind, though can always change it, don`t want any thing noisy.
Any thoughts?
TIA
 
It looks a decent spec , very similar to mine except I have a quad AMD rather than Intel.
The GPU is interesting I have an Radeon 5000 series in mine ( I think its a 5400) which when using Win 7 Pro graphics acceleration was disabled for some reason, probably a driver issue.
I looked on the Adobe site for GPU acceleration and having read this did not bother with trying to get it enabled ( others have suggested it can slow things down)

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/lightroom-gpu-faq.html


However I recently upgraded to Win 10 and LR is now using GPU acceleration and is a lot smoother and quicker so for the cost personally I would put one in, it can't do any harm.

BTW when you put in your SSD don't forget to set the motherboard to AHCI mode BEFORE you install windows otherwise you end up having to edit the registry to enable it.

Just seen Keith's post above and I would agree with that
 
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Keith W said:
My first thoughts are scrap the Dell tower and PSU as well
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A bit harsh but may economically be the best option.
Having said that I am still using a Dell Studio 1537 4gb ram ati 3800 hd gpu but with a 1tb ssd. For light room there is only a slight delay compared to my mates brand new fully loaded macbook.
Photoshop on the other hand is terrible and no 3D.

Consider your options carefully weighing up the entire system and where you need to get to
 
I have a few old Dell towers and as far as i was aware you cant just put a new Mobo in there as the ones i have are built in a way that only Dell stuff plugs into them. By that, i mean the power cables etc that come from the front of the case are on a moulded plug that only fits into a Dell spec Mobo. You might want to check this first before deciding on what to buy.
 
Hmm from reading above I migh look at a case and PSU, did not know some dell cases` not suitable for other motherboards

Cheers everyone
 
After advice above decided to get another tower and forget the Dell
Should be ok I think, not getting a GPU for now, will see how LR and PS cc goes, will take the SSD out of the Dell, seen a post earlier on here the Adobe CC is on offer until the end of the month so will sign up and save a few pence:)

Zalman Case
500W Power Supply
Motherboard : Gigabyte Z97P-D3
Intel I7 4790K
1tb Sata Hard Drive
16gb DDR3 2400mhz Corsair Vengeance Pro Memory
 
nog said:
After advice above decided to get another tower and forget the Dell
Should be ok I think, not getting a GPU for now, will see how LR and PS cc goes, will take the SSD out of the Dell, seen a post earlier on here the Adobe CC is on offer until the end of the month so will sign up and save a few pence:)

Zalman Case
500W Power Supply
Motherboard : Gigabyte Z97P-D3
Intel I7 4790K
1tb Sata Hard Drive
16gb DDR3 2400mhz Corsair Vengeance Pro Memory
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I could be wrong, but I thought that whilst the K series is brilliant for overclocking it doesn't actually have a GPU onboard.
 
dejongj said:
I could be wrong, but I thought that whilst the K series is brilliant for overclocking it doesn't actually have a GPU onboard.
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Have just put the defib unit away after reading your post, checked intel site and its got the 4600 same as the rest of them:)
 
Phew glad to learn I was wrong :thumbs:
 
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