Thoughts on this configuration

I'm looking at getting the following to use for my editing PC. Specifically, I'm using Lightroom 5.7 and Photoshop CS5.

HP Z420 workstation with the following specs:
XEON E5-1650 3.20GHz (6 cores)
64GB RAM
Geforce GT 740 video card
512GB SSD (for operating system, programs)
2 4TB drives (storage for images, raw files, etc.)

Any thoughts? Will this CPU have enough horsepower for LR and PS?

eaglefan wrote in post #18281704
I'm looking at getting the following to use for my editing PC. Specifically, I'm using Lightroom 5.7 and Photoshop CS5.

HP Z420 workstation with the following specs:
XEON E5-1650 3.20GHz (6 cores)
64GB RAM
Geforce GT 740 video card
512GB SSD (for operating system, programs)
2 4TB drives (storage for images, raw files, etc.)

Any thoughts? Will this CPU have enough horsepower for LR and PS?

Photoshop and Lightroom will see more performance from higher clocked CPU's vs higher core count CPU's. There is very little performance gain going beyond 4 cores, basically an I7 6700K or 7700K will perform better than an E5-1650 in the majority of Ps/Lr tasks because of the higher clock speeds.

https://www.pugetsyste​ms.com …lti-Core-Performance-625/

I understand that LR and PS won't see much performance increase over 4 cores. The cost of this configuration over a newer one with an i7 CPU is much less, however.

It should be fine. The Xeon CPU is a common one for servers and workstations so it should have plenty of power for Lightroom. And you have plenty of RAM for both apps to run at the same time.

eaglefan wrote in post #18282606
I understand that LR and PS won't see much performance increase over 4 cores. The cost of this configuration over a newer one with an i7 CPU is much less, however.

Really? Where are you getting a 6-core Xeon setup for less than a Quad Core i7?

Also, you don't specify what type of SSD you're looking at - but the newer NVMe PCIe based flash drives are about 5-6x faster in real world throughput than SATA-III/6Gbps SSD drives. If I were to be building a system today, I'd be looking at that for sure.

I can get the above setup, less the video card, SSD, and other drives for about $400 on Ebay. I already have the video card, SSD, and 4TB drives. The SSD is SATA 6Gbps.

Looks great to me. My next machine will be Xeon on a supermicro motherboard with ECC RAM.

eaglefan wrote in post #18282757
I can get the above setup, less the video card, SSD, and other drives for about $400 on Ebay. I already have the video card, SSD, and 4TB drives. The SSD is SATA 6Gbps.

Looks good to me- I see there are a bunch of them listed. I'd look into getting one of the higher clock speed units, and have the vendor remove the hard disk/OS to cut down some of the cost.

Considering that many newer 4K IPS panel monitors support 10bit color, it seems a better option to opt for a graphic card that support 10bit color and as far as I know so far only Nvida Quadro and AMD Firepro cards support 10bit color. However, Nvidia Quadro may be a better choice since it also supports Cuda technology which Adobe products very much rely on.

On another note, one advantageof using a Xeon processor over i7/i5 is the ability to couple it with ECC memory for a more reliable performance (albeit maybe not often).