Which hardware upgrade to solve The Unbearable Slowness of Lightroom 3?

hello,

 

i’m not going start thread slowness of lightroom 3 because encounter of problems mentioned in forums since upgrading lr3: slow response when using adjustment brush (which slow on machine when using lr2), loading images in develope module take 30 seconds, browsing through images takes forever, etc. read lots of threads , tried several solutions nothing works. there no fun in post-processing images anymore.

 

i’m planning upgrade 4y old hardware soon. i’m using intel core 2 duo e6600 2.4ghz, 4gb ddr2-800 ram, windows xp 32-bit, nvidia 8800gt 1gb ram, wd velociraptor (for os, lr catalogs, lr cache).

 

i’m worried upgrade faster hardware won’t solve performance issues. called colleague-photographer last week bought macpro dual quad-core 2.26ghz , 8gb ram in december last year , claims lr catalog 150k images works fast , smooth. on other side, have read several contradictory stories on adobe forums fast configurations suffer performance issues, normal configurations work more fast enough. remains vague causes lightroom slow down. multiple factors?

 

according experiences, hardware upgrade give lightroom 3 highest performance boost in comparison current system?

- custom pc upgrade win7 64-bit, intel i7-930 2.8ghz quad-core, 9 or 12gb ddr3-1600 ram

- custom pc upgrade win7 64-bit, intel i7-980 (or i7-970) six-core, 9 or 12gb ddr3-1600 ram

- macpro dual quad-core 2.4ghz, 8 or 10gb ddr3-1066 ram

- macpro single six-core 3.33ghz, 8 or 10gb ddr3-1333 ram

 

is videocard of importance? mean, choose nvidia or ati?

 

thanks!

i'm running rc on 2.4ghz core 2 duo laptop 2gb of ram on windows 7/32 bit , catalog on ssd.  it's quite fast things.

 

lee jay

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