Greetings! Please spec me an overclockable pc.

[Mana]

Hello fellow ocukers, it's that upgrade time for again so looking to be placing a nice order at ocuk.

My current system is (which has lasted me very very well):

Q6600 @ 3.4ghz
6gb crucial ddr2 ram
150gb WD Raptor Drive
4tb storage capacity
ati 5850

for day to day normal pc activities, this system is running fine. However i have started doing a lot of photoshop and adobe after effects/premiere pro work and its starting to annoy me at how slow the encode times take. My friend has an i7 clocked to 4.2 and it is so much quicker to encode the same movies etc.

I am a big fan of overclocking and i love spending hours/days finding the best clock and stability. The Q6600 i loved because i felt it gave the best bang for my buck. Looking for the same kind of current chip for this build. I saw that 5ghz oc sandybridge thread and that would be nice. Is that possible on air?

What i need is basically a new system. I will be keeping the current pc, so I will be needing a new case etc and all the stuff that goes in it.

Cpu: great overclocking potential. able to munch through encoding
ram: what amount is good for encoding 16gb overkill?
gfx: i will want to game but its not a priority, something max £200 ish. Would like it to be able to encode adobe to take some stress off the cpu.
case: something big and roomy. I think my current case is an antec 1200.#]

budget: nothing that will break the bank but £1000-£1200 is good.
no monitor keyboard or any other peripherals needed.

Thanks in advance guys.

 

[shroomz]

You would be better off in the General Hardware thread dude but here's a build for you:

This will make your friend weep in his inadequacy

 

[pgi947]

If your encoding I would swap out these from shroomz cart:

2500K for a 2600K, the extra 4 threads will help encodes.
8GB for 16GB, 8GB may be enough, depends what your encoding
GTX570 1.2GB, tough one this for the price, depends if you intend to game on it or not and at what resolution. Higher resolution, maybe a 2GB 560Ti or a 2.5GB GTX570. I would keep it with nvidia though, those cuda cores are going to help encodes.
Asus Max Gene-Z for a P8Z68 or E4G3, the max gene is a great board, but a little overkill for most.


The case is upto you, anything from silverstone/corsair/coolermaster (amongst others) should see you right.

Just to show what improvement you might see, I went for a socket 775 quad (Q9300) to the 2600K, on a SD encode my encode frame rate went from ~140 frames upto around 800 frames, infact I had to buy an SSD to stop the mechanical drive capping the encode speed (at around 600 frames). Yet to try some HD encodes yet, though im expecting a big improvement on the 3 hours it took for a 2 pass 1080p encode with my old setup.