Upgrade vs new rig for Lightroom and Photoshop

[mRoy62]

I'm wondering if I'd get a decent (subjective, I know) improvement if I upgrade my computer. I use it for Lightroom and Photoshop. Current spec is:

Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz 53 °C
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
MSI Z68A-GD65 (MS-7681) (SOCKET 0) 56 °C
Graphics
DELL U2410 (1920x1200@59Hz)
DELL U2410 (1920x1200@59Hz)
1023MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 (EVGA) 44 °C
Storage
238GB TOSHIBA THNSNJ256GCST (SSD) 26 °C
119GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series (SSD) 27 °C
4657GB Seagate Backup+ Desk SCSI Disk Device (USB (SATA)) 40 °C
3726GB Seagate ST4000DM000-1F2168 (SATA) 26 °C
1863GB Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 (SATA) 37 °C
931GB Western Digital WD My Passport 0830 USB Device (USB (SATA)) 29 °C
3726GB Seagate Backup+ Desk SCSI Disk Device (USB (SATA)) 47 °C
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-222AB
Audio
High Definition Audio Device

Should I start fresh or upgrade some of the components? If starting over again I'd appreciate advice on the best components and are there any existing components (in my current PC) that would be useful in my new rig?

Budget...mmm... let's go with under $2K.

Thanks,

Martin

 

[kanewolf]

You have a bunch of USB drives that could be consolidated and replaced. I don't know how old they are but if they are approaching 5 years you should consider migrating data. You have a couple older SSDs these could be replaced with an M.2 which would be significantly faster.

I think I would look at an i7-8700K (adds two cores) with DDR4 RAM (significantly faster) and the M.2 SSD. Get a couple of 8TB internal drives and do backups between the two drives for your photo libraries. Use your SATA SSD as scratch space for Photoshop.