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ac1d1ty

ac1d1ty

ac1d1ty

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Damn soooooooo tempted to upgrade my pc.

Current specs:


E8400
4gb ddr2
500gb sata 2
9600gt


Proposed upgrade:

Intel i7 970 hex core
Geil 6Gb DDR3 (3x2gb) 1600mhz
Gigabyte GA-X58
120GB OCZ Vertex 2E
Nvidia GTX 465

I'm going to use the rest of my pc to make up the rest.

Total cost of proposed upgrade: Just under £1,300



So go on, please persuade me . Traditionally I've only used PC's to play games, but I've started using the CS5 suite a fair old bit and its only going to increase.

Using dreamweaver, editing photo's in photoshop, video encoding etc.
 
The GTX 465 is cheaper than the cheapest gtx 460 with 1gb vram, and i think the lower ram version are limited by lack of ram.

Not to mention I get mafia 2 free :D
 
I agree with raikesi. GTX 460 are better than 465. There is a reason behind it tho! Can't remember but that does explain why 465's are cheaper.
 
Upgrade, i was contemplating wither to wait for the sandy bridge and all that, but sandy bridge doesn't look too promising so UPGRADE, hell I HAVE!
 
Yeah don't get a 465, they suck. With that kind of spec you want a 470 at minimum IMO. New system should be massively faster than the old anyway.
 
You don't buy a top of the range intel hex core then go buy a GTX 460/465 XD that setup is so unbalanced, for the price of an i7 970 alone you could get yourself a complete system, way too throw money out the window ;)

But seriously if you're going for a hex core I would recommend no lower than a 5870 or GTX480 tbh, if not then I'd just get a standard i7 quad 2.8GHz or maybe one around 3GHz then stick it with a GTX470.
 
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ac1d1ty said:
So go on, please persuade me . Traditionally I've only used PC's to play games, but I've started using the CS5 suite a fair old bit and its only going to increase.

Using dreamweaver, editing photo's in photoshop, video encoding etc.
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i7 is overkill for all but heavy heavy design work.

(I manage a network of 50 odd macs and pc's used by various flavours of design professionals. The only workstations that need that kind of power are on the HD editing suites, which are Mac Pros with dual Xeons and local RAID arrays)

Everyone always need more RAM, especially the Photoshop jockeys.
 
reeceLAV said:
Upgrade, i was contemplating wither to wait for the sandy bridge and all that, but sandy bridge doesn't look too promising so UPGRADE, hell I HAVE!
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Every little helps :D thanks!

craig3000 said:
You don't buy a top of the range intel hex core then go buy a GTX 460/465 XD that setup is so unbalanced, for the price of an i7 970 alone you could get yourself a complete system, way too throw money out the window ;)

But seriously if you're going for a hex core I would recommend no lower than a 5870 or GTX480 tbh, if not then I'd just get a standard i7 quad 2.8GHz or maybe one around 3GHz then stick it with a GTX470.
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I'm moving away from games, the the 465 is basically to allow me to get my occasional fix of CSS and try out a few games, not to be a gaming pc. Also I'm hoping I can use CUDA?

sldsmkd said:
i7 is overkill for all but heavy heavy design work.

(I manage a network of 50 odd macs and pc's used by various flavours of design professionals. The only workstations that need that kind of power are on the HD editing suites, which are Mac Pros with dual Xeons and local RAID arrays)

Everyone always need more RAM, especially the Photoshop jockeys.
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I will be starting to edit 1920x1080p movies soon from raw formats to managable sizes for internet use. will a hex core help do this faster than a standard quad core?
 
ac1d1ty said:
I will be starting to edit 1920x1080p movies soon from raw formats to managable sizes for internet use. will a hex core help do this faster than a standard quad core?
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The video guys are disk limited not CPU limited. They need lots of local scratch space and throughput. They have local 7TB SAS RAID arrays for scratch and stacks and stacks of 1.5TB drives with an eSATA cradle for archiving.

The bottleneck they have is copying stuff to/from slow storage drives onto their working space.

This is overkill for you :)

Edit: Just as a point of reference, I transcode 1080p stuff to 720p for streaming to my PS3 and rarely hit 20-30% CPU usage doing so.
 
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sldsmkd said:
The video guys are disk limited not CPU limited. They need lots of local scratch space and throughput. They have local 7TB SAS RAID arrays for scratch and stacks and stacks of 1.5TB drives with an eSATA cradle for archiving.

The bottleneck they have is copying stuff to/from slow storage drives onto their working space.

This is overkill for you :)
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Cheers thanks for this insight, appreciate it. If there is no real difference in the intel 920/930 and this 970 then I might as well save myself 500£ :)

Don't think I can stretch to a 7tb SAS raid setup though :eek:
 
ac1d1ty said:
Cheers thanks for this insight, appreciate it. If there is no real difference in the intel 920/930 and this 970 then I might as well save myself 500£ :)

Don't think I can stretch to a 7tb SAS raid setup though :eek:
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There's obviously a difference, but not for what you need it for :) Use the cash for a nice SSD and a fast source and fast destination HD for your editing.

Those RAID arrays are pretty damn noisy and power hungry too :) Luckily we could drill holes in the wall and run the fibre channel cables into the server room :)
 
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