Just thought I may move my PC into the living room

Combat squirrel · 28 May 2012 at 23:02

As title, I have a reasonable pc, and just thought I only ever use it for photo editing (where it IS lagging somewhat)..... (6 core AMD 1055t at 4ghz, 16gb ram, 6970 2gb - LR4 is sloowww)

And I was going to sell it, get ivy etc, then I just realised, I could turn it into a gaming pc, keep the 6970 in it - get a cheap card for my 'work' pc and use an ivy at 4.5ghz (which I actually need for photo/video editing - I could put that in a small form factor pc)

So id end up with a SFF ivy at 4.5ghz with as much ram as possible with a cheap graphics card with my SSD and 4 hard drives I use for photo/video edit

Then just put my 4ghz AMD with 6970 in the living room to use on my 50" plasma (buy one of those 240gb SSD drives to put games on).

Have I got that right in my head or am I missing something, and is it a good idea? lol

Anyone else done this ?

Combat squirrel · 28 May 2012 at 23:42

shadow_boxer said:
Seems reasonable if you don't mind a full tower in the living room. My personal preference would be to have a low power SFF system in the living room with a proper HTPC case although it wouldn't have the grunt of a full tower like yours.

Do you think you'd get a significant worthwhile boost in performance going from a Hex-core @4GHz to IB (i7-3770K)@4.5GHz with photoshop? Could maybe buy more RAM for your current system?

True, I guess I could put the graphics card in a case where a long double width card would go, kind of want to keep the graphics because its plenty of power for the games I play, and im playing at 2560x1600 now, so 1080p is a walk in the park, I suppose I could sell the 6970 and get a single slot card ?......... and just get an i3/i5 processor and clock as high as it will go on stock volts ?.....thing is in a SFF the PSU's are always wimpy

(im saying this as I just bought a SFF case with p67 mainboard, 8gb ram, only missing a hard drive and processor/graphics card...so would be ideal for front room, it could also double up as a HTPC.....I wonder if I could start games from XBMC ??)

and yeah my main rig is that hex core, it feels sluggish, and I Have 16gb ram should b plenty ?

Many options are on the table here.

Combat squirrel · 29 May 2012 at 11:03

Any input from anyone who may of put there PC in the front room ?

Combat squirrel · 30 May 2012 at 00:25

cereal3 said:
I'm in the process of building a PC in a PS3 case for some gaming on the telly, though it is a lot less powerful than the one you are suggesting. I've gamed on the components to test it and it works good, worth getting a wireless 360 controller though IMO

Interesting, what are the specs? Do you have a build log?