[GH85Carrera]

I was making my computer work hard for me. I was processing the 390 images that make up a 480 acre project we flew. That is pretty small so not major effort for the system, so I was also working on some 3.4 GB image files. They are too big to save in a tif format, so I have to use the Photoshop PSB format, and them flatten the layers and lower the resolution to make PDF files for the printer. At the same time I was downloading 40 two GB files via FTP and insisting to Pandora all at the same time.

I also had the task monitor open just to see how hard it was working. It never got above 100 Gig of ram used, the two video cards were at 40C but not more than 30% utilized, the hard drives were at under 5% utilized, and the CPU would on occasion peg out at 100% utilization as the processing program would end one major part and change to the next step. That would stop the mouse for a couple of seconds at most.

Now I wish I had bought more cores and a faster CPU. 16 cores and 32 threads was the sweet spot for price. I guess I can always change CPUs to a faster one.