New Build to work with Photoshop .pbs very large images

[Keldrilh]

Hello Guys,

I'm working on gigantic images in photoshop with pbs format.

Pixels size are around 160.000 X 300.000 and when saved on hard disk is 4.7Gb.

But my laptop takes more than 20 hours to save it on hard disk.

The images also contains a lot of layers, and when i give a command in photoshop it takes 2, 3 even 5 minutes to esecute it.

I stopped to work on it as I decided I need a new desktop for it. But when I will resume my work, i estimateed the images size may increase over 10 Gb.

The Laptop I'm using at the moment is a DELL INSPIRION 15-3521 (Pentium 2127U 1.9 GHz / RAM 4GB / HD 500GB / Win 8.1 64 bit)



This is the new build I decided to buy for working on my project:

I7-6850K
Asus X99 STRIX
Corsair Vengeance DDR4 128GB 3000GHz
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060
Noctua NH-D15S Cooler
Samsung 950 Pro NVMe SSD M.2 512 GB
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 2 TB
Phanteks Eclipse P400S Midi-Tower Window and Soundproof
Corsair CX750M PSU Modular - 750 Watt

Budget is around 2.800 Euro.

I will use this Desktop only to work on Photoshop Large PBS files (No Gaming / No Cad / No Video / No 3D)

Do you think is a well balanced machine? Would you change something? Can I change something to keep same performance and saving some money?

My goal is to reduce drastically the file saving time which at the moment is more than 20 hours...


Thanks a lot for your suggestions,

Ciao,

Kel

 

[sadams04]

Consider a Xeon with more cores over the i7-6850. The E5-2630 has a very respectable turbo speed of 3.1GHz to go along with its 20 processing threads. Also, look toward the Samsung 960 Pro over the 950.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630 V4 2.2GHz 10-Core Processor (€753.85 @ Amazon Italia)
CPU Cooler: Deepcool GAMMAXX 400 74.3 CFM CPU Cooler (€32.01 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: Asus X99-A II ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard (€277.47 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (€368.00 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (€368.00 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Samsung 960 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (€382.00 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€140.23 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GAMING Video Card (€277.06 @ Amazon Italia)
Case: Corsair Graphite Series 230T Black ATX Mid Tower Case (€80.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (€93.84 @ Amazon Italia)
Optical Drive: Pioneer BDR-209DBK Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer (€74.52 @ Amazon Italia)
Total: €2847.97.

 

[sadams04]

Can I change something to keep same performance and saving some money?

In this regard, you can scale back a bit and still have a good performing workstation. The E3 below will give you i7 like performance (8 processing threads), but the chipset will limit you to 64GB memory. That would look similar to the build below.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V5 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (€266.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X150-PLUS WS ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (€130.04 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (€169.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Samsung 960 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (€382.00 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€140.23 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GAMING Video Card (€277.06 @ Amazon Italia)
Case: Corsair Graphite Series 230T Black ATX Mid Tower Case (€80.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (€93.84 @ Amazon Italia)
Optical Drive: Pioneer BDR-209DBK Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer (€74.52 @ Amazon Italia)
Total: €1615.66

 

[Keldrilh]

Hello,

thank you very much for your help.

I really like the first configuration you posted, and your explanation.

I did some internet search and I came up with the idea to build a machine with dual processor.

Than the configuration you posted will change with 2 Processors E5-2620v4, instead of Xeon E5-2630.

Motherboard will also change, and total cost will be 388 higher.

By the way I don't need to buy Optical Drive, and I can find some of the components with a cheaper price than amazon.it in a couple of shops in Italy.

So final budget will increase about 100/150 euro.

What do you think about this solution with 2 processors. Does make it sense to you?

Thanks,
Kel

 

[Keldrilh]

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[sadams04]

Dual processors is perfectly fine, but adds to the complexity of the hardware. Just keep in mind that the LGA2011 has quad channel memory, so for dual processors you need matching sets of four modules for each processor. That fills all eight slots on most (affordable) LGA2011-3 x 2 motherboards.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2620 V4 2.1GHz 8-Core Processor (€496.99 @ Amazon Italia)
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2620 V4 2.1GHz 8-Core Processor (€496.99 @ Amazon Italia)
CPU Cooler: Deepcool GAMMAXX 400 74.3 CFM CPU Cooler (€32.01 @ Amazon Italia)
CPU Cooler: Deepcool GAMMAXX 400 74.3 CFM CPU Cooler (€32.01 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: Supermicro MBD-X10DAL-I-O ATX Dual-CPU LGA2011-3 Motherboard (€398.00 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Crucial 32GB (4 x 8GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory (€264.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Crucial 32GB (4 x 8GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory (€264.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Crucial MX300 525GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€126.43 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Western Digital Blue 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (€78.64 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GAMING Video Card (€277.06 @ Amazon Italia)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case (€83.57 @ Amazon Italia)
Power Supply: XFX TS 750W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (€103.11 @ Amazon Italia)
Total: €2654.79

 

[Keldrilh]

Thanks a lot man! I really appreciated your help!!

Ciao,
Kel