THANKS FOR TAKING TIME TO READ AND HELP.

I’m currently doing quite some amount of Adobe Lightroom / Photoshop, and occasionally Premiere Pro.

However I faced non-smooth experience even in low entry level Adobe Lightroom.

For example, while scrolling through the photos (edited) it takes 3-5 seconds to load the adjustments I have made, and the task manager shows 90++ % of processors and very high ram usage as well. Furthermore, it even crashes when I do panorama (due to insufficient ram).

Not to mention adobe premiere 4k rendering, not even possible at 1/2 quality.

I am confused that this shouldn’t happen especially to the Lightroom part with my specs.

I’m looking for help for professionals here to advise whether it is due to my spec / my hard disk need to be faster / I need better processor / I need a new cpu etc.

Here is my spec:

Proc: Intel Core i7 6700K
Gpu: Asus GTX 970 Strix
Ram: Kingston 16GB HyperX
Storage: Kingston 120GB SSD
Storage2: Western Digital 3TB Green
Mobo: Asus B150 Pro Gaming D3
Psu: Cooler Master 660W 80Plus
Cooler: CM Hyper 103 CPU Cooler

change to ryzen 3rd..review so good at editting

my pc spec is older than yours (i7-2600K + value ram DDR3 16GB ) ..no GPU summore. Just built in GPU. Still can use Lightroom CC / Photoshop CC / Illustrator CC without heavy lag. My photo edits appear on screen near instantaneous. Yeah, not tip top but i can use it without annoying wait every time doing photo edits. I'm constantly running Lightroom with Chrome (~20 tabs open) AND Firefox (40-50 tabs open) consequently ...
well, too lazy to close the browser tabs ..

1. Are you sure your installation / drivers / windows 10 not causing any issue?

2. Have you pinpoint what apps is/are causing the high cpu + RAM in the task manager? For me, 70-90% CPU usage is usually when exporting the photos.

3. Is the CPU freq always at maximum or minimum? If it is minimum (not maxed out) most of the time, it could be that CPU is too hot. Thus, CPU always in slow freq at all time.

*But I'm tempted to change to Ryzen5 3600 one day. No rush, bcoz i can still squeeze this i7-2600K. LOL!

This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Jul 23 2019, 01:53 AM

Are your files stored in the hdd instead of the ssd ? If so,try working off the ssd and see if there’s any difference.

This post has been edited by abu.shofwan: Aug 11 2019, 01:03 PM

I think you have a very good computer configuration, should not with this problem, you may go to the official after-sales or repair shop to see?

This is what I would do as well. Check where is the scratch disk location in your Adobe applications, I suspect it will default to hard disk due to the space availability, and that would bottleneck your I/O speed. I suggest to add another SSD of bigger size (480gb and above) and run all your production work from there.

Upgrade your SSD and HDD. Your SSD probably running out of space.

Your HDD is a turtle. Not 7200 rpm. I suggest Seagate 3TB or expensive WD (only expensive models have 7200rpm). Check before you buy. Some 2TB onwards are 5400-5900rpm.

Upgrading the platform is another option. AMD Ryzen 3rd generation is current recommendation. If you wanna go that far...

This post has been edited by TristanX: Sep 6 2019, 02:40 PM

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This post has been edited by sHawTY: Nov 10 2019, 07:30 PM

Many people somehow use their 120GB SSD simply for loading operating system, it really can do much more with anything else out there for many many reasons here. I do want it to get much better there. Can you really going on with that matter ?

Upgrade the SSD to an NVMe SSD such as ADATA SX8200 Pro NVMe 512GB SSD

at least , upgrade your kingston ssd to samsung 860 evo 500GB,
and then upgrade your os to windows 10,
then your problem should be solved.

p/s: instead of sata ssd , grab a 1TB/512GB nvme (any brand) also a good idea. your mobo seems support nvme ssd (by spec).

This post has been edited by hashtag2016: Nov 12 2019, 05:26 PM

Thank you so much man! My issue is solved finally!

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