Time to increase the speed in my ASUS G75VX

This is a super laptop as it is, but last weekend it showed that it needed a little boost as I was running it in our event booth while I shot 3500 barrel racing pics. It was running Photo Parata & Darkroom software. While running Photo Parata is is the server for our two viewing stations. While I edited a few shots I got to the point where it was lagging behind in my edits. We also print on-site to two DNP dyesub printers through Darkroom.

It has an I 7 processor, 16 gig of ram but the main hold back is it's 1 TB 5400 rpm HD. I have opted to increase the RAM to 32 gig of Kingston Hyper X DDR3 & add a Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SATA III SSD. I'll leave the 1TB 5400 rpm HD in to use to hold old files when I'm through with them. I'll run all of my photo editing software & viewing software off the SSD.

I doubt the RAM will make much difference, if any. The SSD is a good move.

Processor upgrade would probably be best, but that means buying a new machine. SSD should help a lot. A 1TB SSD is pretty expensive, if you can make do with a smaller one it'll be a lot cheaper. RAM shouldn't make much difference, 16GB is plenty unless you're running a lot of software at once, though keeping files in RAM cache can help if you use a spinning disk. With SSD it's far less important.

Just got it done, it is smoking. Can't wait to see the difference when we are running all our event software!

mike_d wrote in post #16490391
I doubt the RAM will make much difference, if any. The SSD is a good move.

Agreed, unless you're running out regularly.

Expensive SSD, If you need the space I guess that's one way to go but I'd personally go for a higher performance, lower capacity drive and save some cash.

I've got the G74 (16GB ram as well). You are right in your bottle neck being your 5400.

Didn't realise these were upgradable to 32GB Ram.

You should have (or be able to ) install 2HDD's into that Rig. I have a SSD in one slot, and a 7200RPM in the other. (OS of SSD and a few other things I want really fast, and general storage of the HDD).

Processor upgrade would not help much if the bottle neck is the HDD access, which is most likely the case in this scenario. I never understood why they supplied 5400 HDD's in them in the first place. Great way to kill the performance out of such a nice rig.