I usually build myself my personal workstation. I do a lot in the Adobe suite of programs... Photoshop, Premere, Lightroom, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, etc... I sometimes work with very large Photoshop files with a lot of layers and also have a lot of programs open at the same time.
I try to go fairly bleeding edge and overbuild it and keep it for a while. Usually 4-5 years. In 2012, I built a i7-3930K 16Gig Ram, etc... I used it for 10 years. There were faster multithreaded processors, but for a long time that one had better single thread performance than a lot of other options. Photoshop seems to perform better on very fast single thread than it does on massive multithread.
In 2022, I built a Ryzen 5900X, ASRock X570 Taishi Razer, RTX 3070, 64GB RAM, 1 TB M.2, plus a 216 TB M.2 just for swap and temp files.
Probably the end of this year or the first or next year, I want to build a new computer. I am currently looking at Ryzen 9950X and ASRock X670E Taichi with the rest of the components to be determined.
I haven't been keeping track of rumors on future CPU's. I wonder if there is something that will make a major advance in performance on the horizon and not be crazy expensive.
I try to go fairly bleeding edge and overbuild it and keep it for a while. Usually 4-5 years. In 2012, I built a i7-3930K 16Gig Ram, etc... I used it for 10 years. There were faster multithreaded processors, but for a long time that one had better single thread performance than a lot of other options. Photoshop seems to perform better on very fast single thread than it does on massive multithread.
In 2022, I built a Ryzen 5900X, ASRock X570 Taishi Razer, RTX 3070, 64GB RAM, 1 TB M.2, plus a 216 TB M.2 just for swap and temp files.
Probably the end of this year or the first or next year, I want to build a new computer. I am currently looking at Ryzen 9950X and ASRock X670E Taichi with the rest of the components to be determined.
I haven't been keeping track of rumors on future CPU's. I wonder if there is something that will make a major advance in performance on the horizon and not be crazy expensive.