I want to get into video editing - Sandybridge?

-Mike- · 7 Jul 2011 at 22:48

Looking for some advice here gents (and ladies if any present!)

Currently have an i5 760, 8gb memory, p55a board and crossfire 5850's. I'm looking to get into a bit of video editing and photo manipulation and am wondering whether the following upgrade would see a decent performance jump -

i7 2600k
Z68 board
small ssd for intel SRT.

I still intend to play games here and there but am thinking of chopping my two 5850's in for a single gpu solution. Will the Z68 board allow me to utilise the intel video encoding bits and pieces?

Thanks

paradisiac · 7 Jul 2011 at 23:29

i have found that aslong as you are prepared to look for (or wait for updates of your current software) something that ustilises Intel Quick Sync then times for encoding are heavily reduced compard to my old X3 Phenom 3.8GHz. how this compares to an i5 760 im not sure, but it will probably still be quicker.

Surveyor · 7 Jul 2011 at 23:40

The 2600K won't really be faster for video editing but it will be faster for video encoding:

i5 760 v i7 2600K

Intel Quick Sync only works with certain software:

Quick Sync

DJ_Martin · 7 Jul 2011 at 23:59

-Mike- said:
I still intend to play games here and there but am thinking of chopping my two 5850's in for a single gpu solution.

Just wondering, is there a particular reason for this other than in the hope of a performance increase cause crossfired 5850s are pretty damn good. For example:

Xfire 5850s vs 6970
Xfire 5850s vs GTX580

-Mike- · 8 Jul 2011 at 15:05

DJmartin said:
Just wondering, is there a particular reason for this other than in the hope of a performance increase cause crossfired 5850s are pretty damn good. For example:

Xfire 5850s vs 6970
Xfire 5850s vs GTX580

Power saving

Although I guess if I didn't disable the ULP and left them at clock speed they are probably pretty efficient at idle?