OK I Am on the whole etremely happy with the performance of my home designed-built workstation.
One area that although faster than the old i7 based laptop is when using the healing brush I can get ahead of the workstation, enough to check Intel XTU and see the following:-
Memory used 7.98 GB out of 32 GB
CPU 1.2 ghz and it can run at 3.5 std. And 3.8 Ghz in turbo, only one of six cores working but thats Photoshop Elements for you. When I use the Portraiture plugin program ( having reset the std. 2 Threads to 8 Theads performance tuning within Portraiture, it does use 4 coes and the CPU will crank up to 3.78 GHz occaisionally ) but as soon as you revert to pure Photoshop its back to 1 Core.
In CPU-Z under the stress test it uses all 6 cores and ramps up to 3.79 Ghz - so my CPU seems to be working fine.
The ram usage is fine and can if benchmarked use it all.
So the bottleneck issue is the healing brush in Photoshop!
The other areas could be the disk I/O but the main OS disk is an Intel NVame PCIe SSD which appears to go like a rocket everywhere else, boots windows in seconds like 6!
Copies 255 RAW 80 MB images and 255 20 MB JPEGS to the interim storage Samsung 850 Evo, simultaneously in seconds!
38% of the main 750 disk is free , as I back off each job to the interim 850 Evos as soon as I have completed the edit.
The Supermicro MB a 2011v 3 supports NVMe, and has 40 PCIE Lanes.
The other component is a GTX 970 with 4 GB ram, and is running one screen at 3820 x 2160 @ 60 Hz. Its in a x16 physicsl and x16 electrical PCIe Gen 3 slot. Thats not stressed as it has not even asked the twin frozen fans to kick in! And yes they do work with other s/w.
What I was expecting to see, was the CPU using 1 Core ( due Photoshops lousy coding) at 3.8 GHz - i.e. One core maxed out and the other 5 wasted! -. but its not!
The voltage on the core is only 1.1 Volts. And the Noctua D15 is keeping temps to 32C out of a permissable 67C with the fans still at only 350 rpm out of 1200. And yes with benchmarking and all 6 cores running the 2 cooler fans can increase to 980 rpm and the other 6 x140mm case fans to 480 rpm, but the CPU cores never go past 37C ( so I assume my cooling is fine?
So any ideas, settings I can change.
To my limited knowledge it could be disc I/O but with that super fast 750! And if it were would it not use more RAM?
The CPU seems to have loads in reserve
I doubt if I have a GPU bottleneck?? X16 slot ! And 40 pcie lanes
22 GB of unused 2133 RAM
That leaves Windows 10 as the culprit or Photoshop??
Just seems weird?
Be fascinated to hear your thoughts on the matter.
Note
Windows 10 is updated
No other programs running.
The Intel 750 has the latest firmware and Intel NVMe driver ( that delivered a big speed increase over the Windows generic driver)
The MB has the latest BIOS
The MSI GTX 970 has NVIDIA's latest drivers
