- Location
- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
- Name
- John ...
Sounds a bit like the woodsman's axe, Andrew. Two new heads and three new handles ... Otherwise, original! My old PC from 2010 had passed the point where it could be sensibly upgraded. So I had my supplier build one to my specifications. First time in about 30 years that I haven't built my own. My back can't tolerate the bending over required.Mine is also Asus, the TUF EVO OC edition. I have a 10400F processor with a Corsair Hydro 5 liquid cooler, 16gb of 2666MHz DDR4 RAM, and a couple of SSDs (240gb for my system files and 1tb for my libraries).
I built the system in its first iteration back in 2016, but over the past couple of years I upgraded the MB, processor, storage, RAM and now finally the graphics card. It's a modest but effective system which I know inside and out, so I'm not afraid to tinker with it.
Does your motherboard take NVME.2 drives? They are unbelievably fast. Mine tests at about 7,000 MBps for both read and write. About 20+ times faster than my SATA3 SSD.
You would probably get further a big benefit from adding additional RAM. Mine is often sitting on 16 GB in use. With 32 GB RAM and the 6 GB of physical RAM on the graphics card, mine really sings, and has no difficulty handling the 200 MB RAW files from a Hasselblad X2D.