Originally posted by rawr Ditto, w. X570 motherboard, 3200Mhz RAM, GeForce 1660Ti, 1TB SSD, 2GB HDD, extra silent PSU & case fans. Will re-use existing 23 inch monitors.
Still amazes me how slow Lightroom can be though, even with all that hardware thrown at it. Hopefully additional tuning/ tweaking will make a difference.
Come over to the Linux side, the water's warm! I was frustrated with the speed of Lightroom 6 a year and a half ago, so I modified my old system to dual boot Linux, and started trying out Darktable, then RawTherapee. While it wasn't massively faster, it was still faster than Lightroom/Win7. And it never got into the situation of it slowing down more the longer you used it, which I often ran into with LR.
Then a few weeks ago I built a Ryzen 9/3900 system with 32G of 3600MHz RAM, an 8G Radeon graphics card, and a PCIe 4.0 SSD. Xubuntu Linux and RawTherapee hums on this new rig. It loads in a few seconds. It exports 24MP DNGs that took almost 15 seconds on the old rig in three. Even complicated operations like Retinex or Tone Mapping that noticeably lagged for 5-10 seconds before are almost instantaneous now.