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What's power consumption like with a 3930K? I thought they draw some serious power when overclocked?

550W enough? Would imagine it is enough but just making sure.
 
Would I see a dramatic increase in performance if I overclocked? I've never done it before so I am a little cautious to be honest.

@Rusty0611 Do you think it may be worthwhile upgrading to a slightly more powerful power supply instead, say 650W?
 
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i suspect you could just overclock your current pc and or add more ram or an ssd and it would be fine.

lot of money to spend on a pc just for photoshop and general use
 
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i suspect you could just overclock your current pc and or add more ram or an ssd and it would be fine.

lot of money to spend on a pc just for photoshop and general use
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It was already overclocked when I bought it, plus I don't mind spending the money as i'll see my current one and I can also use this for tax purposes anyway!

Just want to know if I was to overclock it to say 3.5GHz or whatever if it'd be worth the hassle of doing it?
 
As it is a "K" CPU you are looking at, then overclocking is easy.

You can also increase the BCLK a good proportion on these systems to get a boost from the other parts.

There are plenty of online written and video guides on how to overclock X79 systems.

Example of another X79 Gigabyte board - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX4P8YYUiGg
 
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Chris,

Just give me a call and I can sort you out

I can even build it for you no problem at all

Cheers

Bailey
 
cpr said:
Would I see a dramatic increase in performance if I overclocked? I've never done it before so I am a little cautious to be honest.

@Rusty0611 Do you think it may be worthwhile upgrading to a slightly more powerful power supply instead, say 650W?
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Yes to the first part.

I'm not sure enough on the power consumption to really say. I would personally say 650W as I feel that 550W would be cutting it close when the system is in use.
 
Got another question though stulid. On an SSD, I've been looking at the different read and write speeds, do they essentially mean that they can read that amount of data (e.g. 500MB) per second? So if all I'm going to be handling is files like PSD's that are 40mb and 50mb, it's going to make no difference at all if I buy the Samsung one instead of the OCZ one with 975mb/s read capability?
 
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