RAW workflow only?

WestEndFoto

I see. That sounds reasonable. It is easy to forget that photography is a hobby for most and therefore, any basis of decision making is sound.

rmp

Whatever floats your boat... Once, a while ago, I built PCs just to see how much I could overclock them... Talk about stupid projects.

WestEndFoto

Did you immerse them in aquariums full of mineral oil to cool the processors?

Killerbob

LOL - I tried that... At one point in 2001 I had the fastest, most overclocked PC in the UK, according to overcloskers magazine:)

PB_PM

Haha. I've got a K series skylake chip in my PC, used the auto overclock when I first got it, just see what it would do. It went 1Ghz over stock, and after the test I set it back to stock and just use it normally. Thankfully using RAW files doesn't make temperatures of your camera rise like overclocking a CPU does.

Killerbob

My first overclocking was on a 486DX which we quickly figured could be overclocked to 100MHz, by changing the multiplier on the MoBo. Some heat was anticipated and we dealt with that. Intel figured the same thing out, and some time after that introduced the DX2 (same chip, just twice the MHz).

Those were the days.

rmp

No immersions, but liquid cooled. These days, I just buy overclocked and liquid cooled from the custom builders. Maybe the D850 file sizes will push me into an HP Z8. I wonder if the software (LR & PS) will actually use all 18 COREs.

PB_PM

Nope, LR taps out at two or four cores, IIRC. Premiere uses up to 12 I believe, but I think that is the only one that does. Maybe Adobe will change that now that higher cores counts are hitting more mainstream systems with Ryzen and the Core i9 chips.

I'm a bit newer to overclocking, my first was a Core 2 Duo E8400 (I just used Mac's before that, and now use both). I don't do custom loops, not worth the hassle, just an AIO liquid cooler. I don't bother overclocking my work machine, sine stability is higher priority. Might once the system gets older, that extra 1Ghz might make a meaningful difference at that point.

rmp

I just played with some HDR merges -- jpgs-in-camera and nefs-in PS. I will be using raw files for this generation (D850) of cameras. It is too easy for me to see the difference. Maybe next generation I will slip to jpgs.

WestEndFoto

I have a couple of liquid cooled PCs that are now tasked to other roles. I now use a MS Surface Laptop with Performance Base (500GB SSD). It will run two 4k monitors. The real reason I picked it is that it is the best screen for photography that you can get on a PC laptop and I need portable.

It is a "little" faster than the liquid cooled PCs, which is impressive for a laptop.

Killerbob

At home I use a maxed out MacBook Pro 2016, i7, 16GB, 1TB - and I’m happy with that.

However, at work I have a HP ZBook 17 G4, with the Quadro P4000 videocard. That’s a Xeon based laptop, and I cannot praise enough how fast that laptop is.

The only thing I have that’s faster is my Mac Pro, but that’s a differt kind of beast. For the RAW workflow, that makes even LR seem fast...