Welcome DaddyShark.
So I bought a new PC. Last upgrade was 2014, i7 4900 with DDR3 RAM. I was exploring my PC motherboard when I discovered it has a M.2 port. After some research, the M.2 port was has only SATA interface and is so obsolete, manufacturers has already stopped producing it’s drives.
Getting into 4K video editing has taken a toll on my old PC since I have to edit it off proxy versions. But with SSD hard drives, it was still tolerable.
With only 4 cores to process, filtering photos was also tolerable on the old PC, as Capture One softwares takes about 0.5s to fully load a single generated image preview of the Fujifilm XT4 raw file. Still useable.
In comes DaddyShark, Intel Core i7 14700! 10 generations newer. 126% faster! DDR5 RAM, Two M.2 sticks with 7000 Mbps and 4000 Mbps read speeds respectively. Asus Motherboard with build in Bluetooth and wifi 6. RGB was a plus.
With 20 Cores working at full speed, what took me 5 hours can now be done in 30 minutes.
What took 0.5s per image, now I can hold down the right arrow key and it can show previews so quickly, it only slows down after 25ish seconds of scrolling through the unfiltered photos. Almost like watching a film in 4K.
Everything is snappy.
Everything is done soooo quickly now. Woohoo!
This should last another 10 years before the need to upgrade again.
Fun Fact : I’ve set the RGB to be green when it’s not working, and red when it’s hard at work.
Realized to edit 4K on the old PC, I needed to render them into proxy files. Got the new PC to help with render faster but realized it’s so powerful, it can playback the 4K vids without rendering them at all. The irony.
