Spec - Video Encoding etc

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I'm currently looking at speccing up a PC for a friend... they're going to be doing quite a bit of video encoding and then just general work etc on the PC. An important point is it needs to support 4 screens. Needs to be really stable and just as fast as possible with everything (as always).

I've come up with this so far, but wondering if anyone has any suggested changes? Also wondered if it'd be better value for money just going for an i5? Would we see a huge drop in speed?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3770 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £239.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £173.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Blue 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B) £89.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive - (MZ-7PC128B/WW) £89.99
1 x KFA2 GeForce™ GT 610 1024MB GDDR3 MDT Multi Monitor Graphics Card £71.99
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DL002) £55.99
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1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £857.86 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Thanks in advance!
 
Thanks for the reply, I wanted to avoid Overclocking it really.. want it to be as rock solid as possible, and try and keep the temps down without too much effort, where it's stored will get quite warm in the summer!
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3770 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £239.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £164.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Notebook/Apple Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128N/EU) £85.99
1 x KFA2 GeForce™ GT 610 1024MB GDDR3 MDT Multi Monitor Graphics Card £71.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL316GB1600C9DC) £71.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £68.99
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX550M High Performance 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020001-UK) £59.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £42.95
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-04 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £837.85 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
Without knowing much about video encoding, I don`t know intensive it is. Does the software require hyperthreading or work better with larger amounts of ram.
 
The motherboard is just OTT for a socket 1155 build being run at stock clockspeeds, and also does the encoding software have GPU acceleration?? For instance HandBrake is getting OpenCL based GPU acceleration with no loss in quality, and it improves speed quite a decent amount. I would be looking at optimising your disk layout too, as reading and writing gigabytes of data can be a bottleneck on its own.

If I were you I would get a Xeon E3 1230 V2 or a Xeon E3 1240 V2 and a lower end Z77 based motherboard since you are not overclocking. They are basically Core i7 CPUs with no IGP but cost much less and are higher binned IIRC. IB consumes very little power at load,so this motherboard would be fine:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-391-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261

The VRMs are hardly going to be strained, as the motherboard is designed with some overclocking in mind too.

Moreover,AMD is launching the FX8350 next week - it might be interesting to see if this is good for your purposes or not. It should be around Core i7 2600 or Core i7 2700 level performance for video encoding at around £150 to £160,and there is one more refresh left on the platform too.

Regarding platforms,perhaps it is worth considering socket 2011. The Core i7 3820 will be a tad slower than a Core i7 3770 but remember that socket 2011 can take six core CPUs,and is also being refreshed with IB-E next year too. For CPU based video encoding socket 2011 probably has the best performance potential, unless you start going to into dual Opteron and dual Xeon territory.
 
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Thanks for all the posts, will be investigating everything a bit further over the weekend :)

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The motherboard is just OTT for a socket 1155 build being run at stock clockspeeds, and also does the encoding software have GPU acceleration?? For instance HandBrake is getting OpenCL based GPU acceleration with no loss in quality, and it improves speed quite a decent amount. I would be looking at optimising your disk layout too, as reading and writing gigabytes of data can be a bottleneck on its own.

If I were you I would get a Xeon E3 1230 V2 or a Xeon E3 1240 V2 and a lower end Z77 based motherboard since you are not overclocking. They are basically Core i7 CPUs with no IGP but cost much less and are higher binned IIRC. IB consumes very little power at load,so this motherboard would be fine:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-391-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261

The VRMs are hardly going to be strained, as the motherboard is designed with some overclocking in mind too.

Moreover,AMD is launching the FX8350 next week - it might be interesting to see if this is good for your purposes or not. It should be around Core i7 2600 or Core i7 2700 level performance for video encoding at around £150 to £160,and there is one more refresh left on the platform too.

Regarding platforms,perhaps it is worth considering socket 2011. The Core i7 3820 will be a tad slower than a Core i7 3770 but remember that socket 2011 can take six core CPUs,and is also being refreshed with IB-E next year too. For CPU based video encoding socket 2011 probably has the best performance potential, unless you start going to into dual Opteron and dual Xeon territory.
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Yes it has GPU acceleration apparently..

I certainly wasn't totally set on the motherboard (or any of the parts I chose for that matter). Need to dig into it again properly tomorrow but the motherboard you posted looks like it should be fine I think..

Any disadvantages to the Xeons over the i7s? With other applications etc?
 
yeah, i think so, Does the software require hyperthreading or work better with larger amounts of ram. There are useful information to me ,thank you
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stevenjoywell said:
yeah, i think so, Does the software require hyperthreading or work better with larger amounts of ram. There are useful information to me ,thank you
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I'm not sure myself to be honest :/ it's Ulead Video Studio 11... it's for a friend so I don't actually do the video editing myself.

Lazder said:
Get xeon 1230v2, since you are not overclocking it will save you money... Xeons are very very stable, they were made to run 24/7 without any issues on servers, producing as little heat and consuming as little electricity as it possible to do so.
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Thanks, going to look into them now!
 
The Xeon E3 1230 V2 looks like a good option, think I'm going to go for that and the Gigabyte Z77-D3H as suggested!

Just need to figure out which graphics card(s) to get to best work with Ulead/Corel Video Studio 11 and which supports 4 monitors now..
 
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