System Needed to Tame The Lightroom 4..

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Hi All

V new this forum (first post) found this website in a magazine whilst looking for a new machine.
I am a photographer and need it to run primarily Adobe Lightroom 4 and Adobe Photoshop (CS5/6), I have used the most recent Macbook Pro 17in
with i7 cpu and 8gb ram, It was laggy and unusable (although lightroom 3 perfomed better on this and other machines), Lightroom seems to
require an enormous amount of grunt to work.

Thought I had it sewn up with the 'Alienware Aurora R4'
then found THIS website...so specced a machine up to the best of my knowledge, Now which is the better/faster system to run LR$ and CS5/6...
I can't decide..help please...
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Alienware Aurora R4
Processor: Intel Core i7-3930K (Six Core, 12MB Cache) Overclocked up to 3.9Ghz
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium
Additional Hard Drive : 1 TB 3.5inch SATA III (7200 RPM)
8 GB Memory (4x2GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Quad Channel
Graphics : 1.25 GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
English Genuine Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium (64Bit OS)
24X DVD/CDRW Combo Drive
Wireless: 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 EDR USB Combo Adapter
ALX Matte Black 875W Chassis
Dell 105 Key Soft Touch USB Keyboard Black

Certified Refurbished

Price........ £914.65
Price Incl. VAT and excl. delivery... £1,097.58
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and the one I found on PC Specialist website looks like this...

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Case - FRACTAL DEFINE R3 - BLACK PEARL CASE
Overclocked CPU - Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-3770k Quad Core (3.50GHz @ max 4.60GHz)
Motherboard -ASUS® P8Z77-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX

Memory (RAM) - 16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (4 x 4GB
KIT)
Graphics Card - 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE 210 - DVI, HDMI, VGA

Memory - 1st Hard Disk - 1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
(7200rpm)

SSD CACHE DRIVE - 20GB INTEL® SSD 313 SERIES - SLC CACHE DRIVE FOR SYSTEM / 1st HDD

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive - 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader - INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT

Power Supply - CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£69)
Processor Cooling - SPIRE GEMINI REV.3-THERMAX HDT TWIN FAN CPU COOLER (£39)
Thermal Paste - ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)

Sound Card - ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities - 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options - 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Operating System - Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence

Warranty - 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
(£5)

Price Ex VAT £866.67
Price 1040.00
Quantity 1
Total Order Price EX VAT £866.67
Total VAT Amount £173.33

Total Order Price £1040.00
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Many Thanks in Advance

 

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Revision of System Needed to Tame Lightroom 4

Hi All
Before putting this post (above) up here on the forums and reading quite few
of the other posts, I then found the 'search forum' input button, so then entered
'photoshop' and 'lightroom' and there are quite a few (alot) of people asking the same
question...sorry...so let me ask this instead about the two systems above.
Is there a huge difference between the

Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-3770k Quad Core (3.50GHz @ max 4.60GHz)

and the

Intel Core i7-3930K (Six Core, 12MB Cache) Overclocked up to 3.9Ghz

and also the fan I have chosen for the i7-3770k Quad Core will this be enough??

Processor Cooling - SPIRE GEMINI REV.3-THERMAX HDT TWIN FAN CPU COOLER

and finally the PSU

Power Supply - CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE

would you reccomend this one as I want to add some more internal drives.

Thanks

 

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The Aurora system has a better processor and GPU than the PCS spec you have posted however you are comparing a refurbished system with a brand new PC. As a previous customer from Dell/Alienware I'd say that you get better customer care/support from PCS. Some of the components in the Aurora R4 are not branded (hard drive, memory) so it is difficult to tell the quality of those.