Sorry, another 2500k or 2600k thread

[lolage]

Hi,

I will be mainly using it for graphic work mainly using vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator. I may sometimes need it for video work but the majority of the time I'll be using it for Illustrator or Photoshop.

Which would you go for?

Thanks!

 

[pcbuilder4ever]

propably nvidia quadro- they are expensive, but 4 the wrk ur doing it will be invaluable, great performance in cs5

 

[lolage]

propably nvidia quadro- they are expensive, but 4 the wrk ur doing it will be invaluable, great performance in cs5

Unless I'm missing something, I'm looking for a CPU not a GPU.

 

[Nellerino]

Well I don’t know if my advice is any use as I two have asked of this only yesterday. The whole time I looked at it from a point of Gaming, but I quickly thought of all the animation work I do in 3ds max and thought that it would be worth throwing the ext £80 or so into the i7 from the i5 for rendering alone. Maybe it won’t be a great amount more but as I well know rendering is as dull as drying paint. So anything that speeds this up would be worth it.

My Guess is that the i7 maybe would be worth it for any Graphics work but again I’m no expert (Yet) and I don’t know if it would do that much more.
My Pc’s at collage were just duel cores and they handled my Vector work more than fine. 3D work though? Not so well.

 

[lolage]

Well I don’t know if my advice is any use as I two have asked of this only yesterday. The whole time I looked at it from a point of Gaming, but I quickly thought of all the animation work I do in 3ds max and thought that it would be worth throwing the ext £80 or so into the i7 from the i5 for rendering alone. Maybe it won’t be a great amount more but as I well know rendering is as dull as drying paint. So anything that speeds this up would be worth it.

My Guess is that the i7 maybe would be worth it for any Graphics work but again I’m no expert (Yet) and I don’t know if it would do that much more.
My Pc’s at collage were just duel cores and they handled my Vector work more than fine. 3D work though? Not so well.

Thanks and yeah was slightly swayed towards the 2600k anyway. Thinking about it I may have to do some 3D work too, so maybe best to just go for 2600k.

 

[Nellerino]

Yeah i sent away for my i7 2600k today, seems a very worthwhile buy

 

[lolage]

Yeah i sent away for my i7 2600k today, seems a very worthwhile buy

Out of interest what mobo/ram did you go for?

 

[Nellerino]

At the moment i have GIGABYTE GA-PH67-UD3-B3 and 4GB Corsair Memory DDR3 1600.

Although Both are subject to change once i finally get round to putting the whole thing together. Im gonna look to get a good balance for Graphics and Gaming, so its gonna take a bit of a fight haha.

 

[Tomcat825]

From what I understand, the work your doing will probably be CPU intensive as opposed to anything else, so the i7 was definitely the right choice

You might find that slightly more RAM will also help, but someone more experienced with the needs of what you're doing can confirm that.

 

[lolage]

From what I understand, the work your doing will probably be CPU intensive as opposed to anything else, so the i7 was definitely the right choice

You might find that slightly more RAM will also help, but someone more experienced with the needs of what you're doing can confirm that.

yeah thanks, going to go for the i7- just need to work out what mobo/ram to get now.

 

[Dride]

well I have got 12GB of Corsair DDR3 1600MHz ram (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-205-CS) obviously you'd have to get the dual channel version however. But I use mental ray with Maya (which is a memory hungry combo) Since getting more ram my renders have taken less time due to it having more ram to use and not being contrained to only using 5GB (as I only had 6GB before)

Processor is a i7 930 @4GHz with a Asus P6X58D-E mobo if you wanted to know.