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CPU Upgrade?

Rensin

Rensin

Rensin

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Hi,

I currently have a 5930k overclocked to 4.2Ghz and was wondering if it is worth upgrading?

80% of my usage is video encoding/editing and the other is split between Photoshop & gaming.

Atm I average about 27 FPS while encoding (70 min 1080i file using a CRF of 19) ... encoding times takes roughtly 40 mins.

Is there any upgrades worthy of improvement? i.e. I don't want to spend money to only see a slight improvement and reduce video encoding times by 20 seconds or so.

Current Spec:
5930k @4.2Ghz
Asus Strix x99
Corsair Dominator 16GB @ 3000Mz
MSI 390x

cheers.
 
Surely Threadripper would double (or more) your encoding speed? A 16c/32t processor seems ideal for that job... Or go mad with a 10 core Intel jobbie that's probably worse than the Threadripper.

Not cheap, but you didn't specify a budget :)
 
thanks for the replies.

@eddiew
Have only taken a quick look at threadripper and they do look crazy for the price.

But I've not seen anything that suggests the likes of vidcoder/handbrake will utilize all the cores/threads.

I'll do more reading, thanks for the replies.
 
Rensin said:
thanks for the replies.

@eddiew
Have only taken a quick look at threadripper and they do look crazy for the price.

But I've not seen anything that suggests the likes of vidcoder/handbrake will utilize all the cores/threads.

I'll do more reading, thanks for the replies.
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Handbrake will take all the m0ar cores you can throw at it, it's a very scalable beast.

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Rensin said:
Hi,

I currently have a 5930k overclocked to 4.2Ghz and was wondering if it is worth upgrading?

80% of my usage is video encoding/editing and the other is split between Photoshop & gaming.

Atm I average about 27 FPS while encoding (70 min 1080i file using a CRF of 19) ... encoding times takes roughtly 40 mins.

Is there any upgrades worthy of improvement? i.e. I don't want to spend money to only see a slight improvement and reduce video encoding times by 20 seconds or so.

Current Spec:
5930k @4.2Ghz
Asus Strix x99
Corsair Dominator 16GB @ 3000Mz
MSI 390x

cheers.
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Next one up upgrade from 5930K is the 1920X. With fast 3600mhz ram.
However your CPU is pretty low clocked for 5930K. You might be able to squeeze another 300mhz.
 
Panos said:
Next one up upgrade from 5930K is the 1920X. With fast 3600mhz ram.
However your CPU is pretty low clocked for 5930K. You might be able to squeeze another 300mhz.
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have bumped up my overclock to 4.4Ghz (1.28v) since I created this post, 4.5 I couldn't get stable with 1.3v plus temps were high .... would pass Aida64 for 4 hours but as soon as I started encoding it would crash.

tbf going from 4.2 to 4.4 made very little difference (apart from temps), PC feels much snappier in photoshop ect but for video encoding & rendering probably knocked off seconds.
 
Here you go fella, running numa memory at the moment but will do another run in a min with distributed 1533 instead of 1467 as it is. The cores etc don't really show much as I should have done a screenshot earlier but forgot and walked away from the machine. I expect the next run to be a chunk faster as well:



I did sit and watch it for a while and all cores seemed to be anywhere from 40 to 70% utilised at any given point.
AVG FPS: 53.657803
# Job completed (Elapsed Time: 11m 13s)
 
So faster memory etc doesn't seem to actually be helping that much here:



54.235085 fps
# Job completed (Elapsed Time: 11m 08s)

If you have a look at the log it does say something about more than 16 threads not being recommended.
 
thanks for those Vince, your a legend mate.

Those are some pretty good encoding times & FPS, on my 5930k I averaged 31FPS and took just over 17 mins on the same Test file I sent you.

I guess it would be best not to use my Corsair Dominator DDR4 memory I have now with the 1920/50X?
 
I guess it depends what memory, I'm using 64gb 8x8gb 3466mhz Gskil Trident Z. This was mainly because I wanted 64gb for provisioning VM's and because I thought I would have a decent chance at getting some decent speed out of it. I know I can get it at 3200 but am not sure yet how i get it stable there although in more capable hands I'm sure it would go higher still. This was also running the 1950x at stock so if you were to all core overclock I think you could perhaps cut another 30 seconds or a minute off of the time.
 
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