Hi there-
I have reasonably large (20k) catalogs, and Im trying to improve the speed that I can scroll through the thumbnails. If I scroll through 40-60 images and stop, it takes a half second for LR to catch up with the high quality preview and especially the common photo settings and capture time that I have displayed with the thumbnails. This even happens when I select smaller (300 photo) folders within the catalog. Ideally I would like to improve the time it takes LR to present those previews and information, and was wondering what hardware improvements I can make to do that.
I currently run an i7-970 (hexcore). 24gb Ram (though LR never uses even a third of that). LR and Win 7 64 on SSD 1 (SATA 2). Catalog, 1:1 previews, and photos on SSD 2(SATA 3). Decent 512mb video card with CUDA. Motherboard is SATA 2.
The upgrade I was thinking about was to the processor to either the SB-E i7-3930 (hexcore) or one of the higher end Ivy Bridge (quadcore) when they come out. I would also look into getting a new motherboard that supports SATA 3.
Is improving the processor likely to help, and if so, is this something where having 6 cores would help (i7-3930) or more just the overall processor speed (Ivy Bridge). Or is the bottleneck in the motherboard, where I would upgrade from SATA 2 to SATA 3?
(I dont think improving the graphics card would help, as my understanding is that LR really doesnt use it. And dont think more RAM would help, as LR only uses a fraction of what I have).
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
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