MP 1,1-5,1 Retired the 2008 MP and got a 2012 MP with questions

[ice8121]

Got a 2012 for $150 with a 1 x 3.33 6 core processor, 24gb ram and two 3TB hard drives. I took the Samsung SSD and R9 280X out of my old 2008 machine and got up and running today.

What do you think of the speed test results and what would you do next to make it quicker? I use it mostly for photoshop and dreamweaver with some light fcpx editing. I decided on the 6 core vs the 12 as I read that photoshop can't really take advantage of the other 6 cores.

I was wondering if the performance increase using 3 ram chips so it uses the triple channel memory controller is worth it or would I be better off with 4 chips? If needed I can get three or four 16gb chips.

Is upgrading to a NVME M.2 drive worth it and if so which drive and card do you recommend? single drive or dual raid 0 on the same PCIe card?

I was also considering upgrading to the Sapphire Pulse RX 580 because of cost but was wondering if the 5700 XT is worth the extra cash? Or what other card should I consider? I really don't want to do the pixlas mod or run an external power supply or spend $500 or more on a video card right now.

What other cards would you add outside a USB 3 card?

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

 

[defjam]

IMO any processor or memory upgrade would not be worth it (unless you actually require more than 24GB of memory). At 3.33GHz you're almost at the top of what is available (3.46GHz). Triple memory configuration versus quad is, IMO, a non issue except in benchmarks and maybe some special use case (which I do not believe you fall into).

If anything focus on disk and GPU. For the disk even a standard SATA drive will be beneficial. NVMe is faster but you're unlikely to see the same amount of improvement from SATA SSD to NVMe SSD as you would from SATA to SATA SSD. Still, if the price is right, NVMe is an excellent option (assuming you've upgraded the firmware).

As for GPU I will leave that to others to comment on. I'm still using my 5770

 

[ice8121]

Thank you for the response. I currently have a Samsung 850 Pro SSD with trim enabled. I ordered a Crucial P1 500GB M.2 and a Kryo M.2 evo PCIe today as the price was right and I had some Amazon points I could use. From what I understand I can put that in the 4x slot 3 or 4 because it can't do more then 1500 MB/s but if it was the Sonnet M.2 4x4 then it would have to go in slot 2.