My son and I have been talking about building a new pc for the past several years. He’s been away at the University of California at Santa Barbara and graduated this past June. Been home in Mississippi since job and is leaving for Navy OCS next week.
We decided it was time.
Since I am a
Basically, this was the build.
AMD Ryzen 7200x 8 core, 16 thread cpu
Ati radeon rx-570 gpu
Gigabyte 8450m-ds3h motherboard
32g 3200mhz ddr4ram
600 watt power supply
Cheap case
I used the 500g ssd from the old pc along with the mouse and keyboard.
Total cost was just over $500 with the Black Friday deals.
Result:
Unbelievable!
I used to keep a pencil and paper next to the pc to record the
Now, the modules popped! I can now try out all of the different settings where before I would settle for what I got because it would take so long to process.
Previously, in Photoshop, running the Astronomy Tools Action pack, I would think the pc was locked up and sometimes shut the application down. Now, pop, pop, pop, and bam there was the rendered image.
I used to think that the old PC was okay, I can wait on it.
Boy, was I wrong!
If you are fighting with an old PC to process your astro images on, don’t be like me! Upgrade! Your images will appreciate it!
Thanks,
Jim