Caporegime
Wouldn't an FX8 be best for this at a shade over 100?
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AMD FX or i7 sandybridge
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wow so many more replies to look through!
@CAT-THE-FIFTH- The main uses of this rig would be rendering animations and making videos, this includes: Autodesk Alias, AutoCAD, Maya maybe and Adobe premiere. Some gaming might be done when I get the chance and in summer months so maybe a 80%-20% ratio respectfully. So I would need a decent-ish card.
to CAT and others- I have been researching a lot based on the consumer level for gpu's, not professional. I read a lot of reviews on firepros and tesla or quadro and some arent too fond of drivers and others seem to not be impressed that they spent so much money. I am aware that some cards are the same chips with different drivers also. Heck, my current 9800gt runs Soilworks very well ,I think just my Q6600 is getting tired in these applications maybe...
I was interested in a discounted 570 but I saw that 6970's are more powerful in some respects but doesnt have CUDA support. this new gen 660 is very impressive however I have heard the 670 is best bang for buck now but its quite a lot of buck!
@Dirtyganker I have seen others speaking of and reviews of the 3770k and saw that it was expensive but indeed did beat the 3820. However I also saw that gets hot whilst overclocked and wasnt performing much better than the sandy's, hence why this posted is based on the older i7's.
To others, coupled with the i7 I was going to chuck in 16GB of RAM as they are getting cheap now.
So the setup i did after all your views:
Your basket
EVGA GeForce GTX 660TI 2048MB £249.95
Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandy) /// 3770k £239.99 /// £269.99
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB £85.99
MSI Z77A-G43 Intel Z77 £79.99
Corsair Builder Series CX 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £69.98
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £44.99
Adata XPG Gaming v1.0 8GB x2 £71.98
Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
Sub Total : £689.89
Shipping : £10.00
Total : £839.87
Many many thanks for all your input, and please dont take the setup like im not listening but its just based on my research for (3years of waiting/deciding/spending money on other things!)
What do you guys think?
Marc
@CAT-THE-FIFTH- The main uses of this rig would be rendering animations and making videos, this includes: Autodesk Alias, AutoCAD, Maya maybe and Adobe premiere. Some gaming might be done when I get the chance and in summer months so maybe a 80%-20% ratio respectfully. So I would need a decent-ish card.
to CAT and others- I have been researching a lot based on the consumer level for gpu's, not professional. I read a lot of reviews on firepros and tesla or quadro and some arent too fond of drivers and others seem to not be impressed that they spent so much money. I am aware that some cards are the same chips with different drivers also. Heck, my current 9800gt runs Soilworks very well ,I think just my Q6600 is getting tired in these applications maybe...
I was interested in a discounted 570 but I saw that 6970's are more powerful in some respects but doesnt have CUDA support. this new gen 660 is very impressive however I have heard the 670 is best bang for buck now but its quite a lot of buck!
@Dirtyganker I have seen others speaking of and reviews of the 3770k and saw that it was expensive but indeed did beat the 3820. However I also saw that gets hot whilst overclocked and wasnt performing much better than the sandy's, hence why this posted is based on the older i7's.
To others, coupled with the i7 I was going to chuck in 16GB of RAM as they are getting cheap now.
So the setup i did after all your views:
Your basket
EVGA GeForce GTX 660TI 2048MB £249.95
Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandy) /// 3770k £239.99 /// £269.99
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB £85.99
MSI Z77A-G43 Intel Z77 £79.99
Corsair Builder Series CX 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £69.98
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £44.99
Adata XPG Gaming v1.0 8GB x2 £71.98
Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
Sub Total : £689.89
Shipping : £10.00
Total : £839.87
Many many thanks for all your input, and please dont take the setup like im not listening but its just based on my research for (3years of waiting/deciding/spending money on other things!)
What do you guys think?
Marc
Caporegime
don't say that Martini you'll get shot
If it's not for gaming, I can't see why the hell it hasn't been suggested, especially if OP can make use of the cores.
For the money though I'd take an i7 3770 over a 2700k.
I wouldn't touch the FX chips with a barge pole, thats just my opinion but stick to Sandy Bridge, Ivy or the trusty Phenoms.
As far as i know the 8150 FX is not a 'true' 8 core CPU, it has 4 cores and 4 threded cores. If im wrong please correct me as id hate to give false information but as far as i know this is true.
Personally i'd go with Intel 2700K that you have listed as it's quite a bit cheaper than the Ivy 3770K but if you have the money grab the Ivy Bridge. With the 660TI you will get amazing performance though maybe a 570 or 580 would be better? Not sure to that, I also do small amounts of video and animation rendering and even my Phenom II does decent though im upgrading to 2700K myself to speed it up. So im not bias to either side but for CPU's and heavy workloads the Intel chips are the way to go as they will just keep on pushing, then of course if you dabble in a bit of video gaming the Intel will also smoke all the FX chips.
As far as i know the 8150 FX is not a 'true' 8 core CPU, it has 4 cores and 4 threded cores. If im wrong please correct me as id hate to give false information but as far as i know this is true.
Personally i'd go with Intel 2700K that you have listed as it's quite a bit cheaper than the Ivy 3770K but if you have the money grab the Ivy Bridge. With the 660TI you will get amazing performance though maybe a 570 or 580 would be better? Not sure to that, I also do small amounts of video and animation rendering and even my Phenom II does decent though im upgrading to 2700K myself to speed it up. So im not bias to either side but for CPU's and heavy workloads the Intel chips are the way to go as they will just keep on pushing, then of course if you dabble in a bit of video gaming the Intel will also smoke all the FX chips.
Caporegime
Bulldozer has 8 cores on 4 modules.
2 cores make up a module.
It's not a true 8 core in that resources are shared within the module which lowers overall scaling, so a module won't perform as good as two separate cores from 2 different modules.
What is a threded core though?
I've made my feelings on Bulldozer very known, but if the workload is suitable to an FX8, at a shade over 100, I'd certainly take one.
2 cores make up a module.
It's not a true 8 core in that resources are shared within the module which lowers overall scaling, so a module won't perform as good as two separate cores from 2 different modules.
What is a threded core though
?I've made my feelings on Bulldozer very known, but if the workload is suitable to an FX8, at a shade over 100, I'd certainly take one.
I see, i thought it wasn't a true 8 core. Sorry i also couldn't say what a Threaded core is as it was a colleague who told me about it when i was running an open benchmark on the FX8120 and we started talking about the poor sales and reviews of most of the FX CPU's (The sales part wasn't really true as quite a lot sold) and he then told me it that it wasnt a true 8 core and it had 4 threaded cores so sorry i have no idea what he really meant by it.
Soldato
I would probably swap the 660Ti for the 570 as even though it's older, it has better compute performance, since the 680 was suppose to be the midrange until Nvidia saw how the 7000 series performed.
Caporegime
Indeed.
And now we have the 600 range, which so far has such a minimal difference in frame rate from each other with about 200 pound price gap between the 3.
Wouldn't surprise me if this 660Ti I'm currently using started off life as a 650Ti or something.
Soldato
While I can't personally speak for the 570. The 580's Shader's run at twice the speed of the Kepler 670, as the Kepler has a unified design. While Kepler's memory makes up for this, in a lot of compute scenario's the 580 kicks it due to it's much wider Memory bus.