Need a computer that makes Adobe Illustrator (and photoshop) its biznitch.

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brokejaw5

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So far its the other way around.

Hi everyone, i'm having trouble getting illustrator to run well on my computer, in the sense that its handling complex line patterns very slowly, like very slowly. I'm wondering what I can do to upgrade my current PC (which I think is pretty good so far) in order to run it better.

For those of you who are not familiar with Illustrator, its a vector based drawing program.

My current PC:

Mother Board: Asus z97i - plus
CPU - Intel i5 - 4690k 3.5 GHZ 6mb cache (could be overclocked not sure, my bro set it up)
Ram: Ballistix 16gb DDR3L - 1600
GPU - Gigabyte GTX 970
Harddrive: Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5" (Windows 10 and Adobe installed on)
Crucial MX100 500GB SATA 2.5" (Photos / videos / music and videogames)

So i think its a pretty beefy system, but my work is getting more complex and its really bogging down on files with a lot of points (illustrator reference).

Another thing, illustrator also uses the GPU now, not sure how it uses it, or if it uses the ram on the GPU as well but it does use it.

Here are some photo links to how illustrator uses my CPU when under "heavy" load.

CPU:
https://s12.postimg.org/bcqtutdl9/cpu.png

https://s17.postimg.org/59pr6q7tb/cpu2.png

Memory:

https://s15.postimg.org/hgokq2yor/memory.png

Process:

https://s15.postimg.org/iw8xzwhm3/process.png

I'm also running two 1440p monitors if that helps.

I'm thinking maybe its my CPU and ram.

Any advice would be appreciated.




 
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RealBeast
Your specs are good enough to run Adobe products at a reasonable speed, although you would benefit by having a scratch drive (SSD) for them to use and you can specify it in the preferences. I find that it makes a significant difference, and all I use is a very old 80GB Intel X-25M.

Take a look at THIS guide to improving performance by optimizing your current hardware use and adding a scratch disk or perhaps even a scratch partition on something other than the OS/program drive.
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Your specs are good enough to run Adobe products at a reasonable speed, although you would benefit by having a scratch drive (SSD) for them to use and you can specify it in the preferences. I find that it makes a significant difference, and all I use is a very old 80GB Intel X-25M.

Take a look at THIS guide to improving performance by optimizing your current hardware use and adding a scratch disk or perhaps even a scratch partition on something other than the OS/program drive.
 
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It allows for better multitasking. Some applications also benefit from a higher thread count, especially rendering and content creation work.
 
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Higher frequency is far more beneficial than increased cores in Photoshop, this has been shown in actual testing. HERE is an example of direct testing that shows little improvement in multicore setups with a conclusion that, "Most actions in Photoshop are either single threaded or lightly threaded."

The situation is similar in Illustrator in most cases, one exception being print spooling. A former product manager for Illustrator stated, "What this means is that only some kinds of functions can support multi-core functionality in Illustrator. For example, if you print a large file, illustrator will hand the print spooling off to another core and return you back to your document to continue working immediately. But sadly, this isn't possible for speeding up linear tasks like drawing/rendering art."

And a fast scratch disk that is separate from the OS/Program disk is highly beneficial.
 
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Well I have two seperate harddrives, the C drive has Adobe and Windows and the D drive has my photos / videos etc, (Both are SSD) can I just use my D drive as the scratch disk since it doesn't have windows and adobe installed on it?
 
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