New CPU and motherboard bundle!

[Legoman776]

Hi all

I am a video editor and am encoding .ts to various file formats all day in Handbrake and similar, and currently using an Intel Core i7 5820K 3.30ghz CPU.

I want a new CPU which can make my video encoding much much faster (I realise I’ll need to get a new motherboard as I have Socket 2011 LGA). Money not really an object but best value for maximum benefit is of course ideal, with water cooling for maximum efficiency.

All suggestions welcome for a new bundle please. I guess up to around £1500 all-in.

Thanks
LM

 

[Legoman776]

https://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU-2019/2245 would suggest a Ryzen 3950x or 3900x

Then just get a MSI X570 tomahawk and some decent 3600 RAM and you'll be good to go.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Sixteen Core 4.7GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £698.99
• 1 x Team Group 8Pack RIPPED Edition 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C14 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/= £139.99
• 1 x MSI MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 ATX Motherboard= £219.95

Total: £1,069.43 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Thanks for the info.

This looks like a good bundle. What would the gains be in terms of encoding speed (CPU) do you think?

Also, I currently have 32GB DDR4 RAM - can I use this with the new bundle and make it 48GB RAM overall?

Thanks,

LM.

 

[Legoman776]

Are you willing to use GPU encoding? If so the best use of your money is a suitable GPU in what you have and save a fortune. If not, overclock what you have for some reasonable gains for free. Water cooling isn’t really significantly more efficient, you pay a premium for minimal gains. It could be argued that it’s more about aesthetics and has been for many years, nothing wrong with that, but if you want efficiency/value, air is cheaper and unlike coolers of old, relatively quiet/regularly beats the smaller AIO’s.

If you want to buy new, Quicksync deserves consideration *if* you’ll use it, you can generally do an encode in 10% of the time it’ll take in software (CPU), similar story with GPU encoding. If GLU/iGPU isn’t for you, throw as many cores at it as you can and in raw CPU performance terms you get better £/performance ratio on Ryzen at present, but the forthcoming Ryzen 4000 series is likely the end of the line for The AM4 socket, and it’s replacement isn’t due for a good while yet.

Thank you for your help. I steer away from GPU as what this makes up for in time, it loses in quality; so I need to push CPU as much as possible. Thanks. LM.

 

[Legoman776]

I actually just noticed I put 16gb of ram in the basket not 32gb try this instead

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Sixteen Core 4.7GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £698.99
• 1 x MSI MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 ATX Motherboard= £219.95
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 32GB (2x16GB) 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Dual Kit= £179.99

Total: £1,109.43 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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This looks great, thank you.

One of the reviews for the processor says don't even try to air cool this thing though, and use watercooling - is this right? Is there a watercooler and/or AIO you could add to the bundle?

Cheers,
LM.