# Which system upgrades are best?

**URL:** <https://community.pix4d.com/t/which-system-upgrades-are-best/4242>\
**Category:** PIX4Dmapper Questions/Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [November 15, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/which-system-upgrades-are-best/4242 "2017-11-15T21:00:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stijn\_Vandycke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Stijn\_Vandycke](https://community.pix4d.com/u/Stijn_Vandycke)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/which-system-upgrades-are-best/4242/1 "2017-11-15T21:00:05Z")

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Hi, I have a little problem. I have currently 2 systems available and both have some bottlenecks.&nbsp;

the first system has a intel xeon E52620V4 and 16 gb ddr4 server ram.

the second sytem has an intel 7700k and 64gb of ddr4 ram.

So now I want to build the best possible pc. I need an SSD and gpu in both cases since neither of them have one. Unfortunatly I can not swap the ram from the second system to the first since its not compatible. Buying new server ram is crazy expensive (1000 dollars easy). So I wonder what I do best? I know that the eight core xeon is better than the I7, but is the 16gb ram going to bottleneck this so much that the i7 might work better? I am planning to do around 500 images 20Mp per job. If I upgrade the xeon processor system, am I going to benefit more from extra ram or an SSD+GPU? My budget in upgrades is around 500 dollars.

Kind regards,

Stijn

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Jordan\_P.E](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/pix4d/user_avatar/community.pix4d.com/adam_jordan_p.e/32/220_2.png) [@Adam\_Jordan\_P.E](https://community.pix4d.com/u/Adam_Jordan_P.E)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 4:50am UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/which-system-upgrades-are-best/4242/2 "2017-11-18T04:50:14Z")

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This gets asked plenty around here…answer always the same, Threadripper or Core i9 with GTX1080Ti and 128GB RAM.&nbsp; The Xeon is likely not better than the i7 but I didn’t lookup the exact specs.

My relatively new Core i9 beast of a computer cost $6,000 if you want to explore all options in Pix4D and do it the fastest.&nbsp; Compromise down to fit your budget but you need 3 main things, GHz, Cuda cores, and RAM.

$500 won’t really get you close to the best possible Pix4D computer but you can improve your&nbsp;i7 with a new GPU.

[https://community.pix4d.com/t/4079-Pix4D-Computer-hardware-community-benchmark#gsc.tab=0&nbsp;](https://community.pix4d.com/t/4079-Pix4D-Computer-hardware-community-benchmark#gsc.tab=0%C2%A0)