Good upgrade build?

Mint_Sauce · 10 Aug 2010 at 16:15

Thinking about buying the following to upgrade my machine for video editing.

1 x Asus P6X58D Premium Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
1 x Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366)
1 x Intel X25-M Mainstream 80GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive
2 x OCZ Gold Low Voltage 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C10 (2000MHz) Triple Channel (OCZ3G2000LV6GK)

The PC parts I'm swapping over are

Q6600 G0 @ 3.2 Ghz
Abit IP35 Pro mobo
8gb OCZ ram

So, whaddya reckon?

stulid · 10 Aug 2010 at 16:22

nothing wrong with what you already have.

but if you do decide to get that upgrade, just change the ram to anything else, the ocz gold is pants.

Mint_Sauce · 10 Aug 2010 at 16:34

Will check out what other RAM is out there. The 6600 G0 is fine for 90% of things but rendering out video takes a while and I know the i7 is particularly good at that kinda thing otherwise I'd just stick with my 6600 to be honest.

Ryan111 · 10 Aug 2010 at 16:39

Maybe just buy the SSD and wait till the next gen of CPU's?

Mint_Sauce · 10 Aug 2010 at 16:55

I might just do that, when abouts are the new gen of CPUs coming?

coldfused · 10 Aug 2010 at 17:18

Perhaps go for Asus P6X58D-E? Apparently a few reviews say that paying the £80 more for the premium isn't worth it. You can use the money to buy better RAM as OCZ Gold aren't the best know for reliability.

pastymuncher · 10 Aug 2010 at 18:57

Mint_Sauce said:
I might just do that, when abouts are the new gen of CPUs coming?

Sandybridge is coming on socket 1155 in Nov/Dec. Socket 1366's replacement was Q3 next year unless Intel is bringing that forward as well. AMD's bulldozer cpu's are also arriving next year.

Mr Krugga · 10 Aug 2010 at 19:04

If you really want to upgrade now:

HW91 · 10 Aug 2010 at 19:18

Grimley · 10 Aug 2010 at 19:38

Ryan111 said:
Maybe just buy the SSD and wait till the next gen of CPU's?

This. The Q6600 is still a good & popular chip (Judging by how quickly they go in the MM) Write speeds for SSD's are OK but I don't think they'd be suitable for video editing TBH (Fine for the OS, Definitely for Win7).I'd get a good quality large capacity Hard Drive TBH, something like this.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=

Mint_Sauce · 11 Aug 2010 at 00:50

I have a raid 5 setup with 5 x 500gb which I get good speeds from plus another two single drives for temp storage and stuff, the SSD would just be for my OS.

Got me thinking about waiting now, the Q6600 hasn't let me down. I might just hold off everything and wait a bit longer on the SSDs to fall in price a bit more, not sure if I can hold myself back though

Thanks for the spec list Krugga, if I can't resist the itch and I end up ordering it will be that system, thanks.

Admiral Huddy · 11 Aug 2010 at 08:11

+ 1 for keeping the Q6600 and waiting for later part of the year/early next.