Upgrade for a video encoding boost

John24

John24

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I'm looking to upgrade MB/CPU/RAM next month and need a bit of advise. Budget is £300-400.

Currently I've got,
Athlon 620
M4A785D-M PRO
XMS2 2GB

CPU
Thinking of going with a 1100T to shorten encoding time, I don't do a lot but when I do I want it to be quick. I also want quiet operation and low idle power usage. I think the 1100T will give this but is there anything else I should consider, like any of intels offerings?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-277-AM

MB
Needs to have onboard graphics/sound, at least one PCIe slot for my TV card, lots of sata ports, usb 3

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-251-GI

RAM
No idea what to go for here, all I know is 2x2GB should be plenty.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-203-CS


Please pick my choices apart and recomend other stuff if necessary. Big thanks.
 
Hi stulid, can't do that unfortunatly because the old stuff is getting repurposed and I want sata/usb3. Although usb3 isn't a must have but sata3 is.

I will consider the 1090T though, only want the 1100T because they get cherry picked as the most stable but I guess it wont be that much of a difference. Cheers.

Hi Orcvader, I'll have a look thanks.
 
Is there any reason to go with that asus over the gigabyte other than price? I'd prefer the extra sata ports and more powerful GPU on the gigabyte if not. Or there is this asus board, looks the same as the one you suggested but with more ports and latest graphics, no usb3 but there is a usb3 version if I really wanted it.
I want the highest spec because I don't plan on upgrading again soon, this should do me fine for a while and I'll not get a graphics card untill the onboard is not good enough for OS and HD playback.

That's a good links on the 1100T, thanks. The price difference is actually only £20 because the 1090T is on TO atm. TBO I think it's worth it, that link shows at stock a 12W saving at idle and 10W at load, in real terms it'll be more than that because I'll have to OC the 1090T to the same level as the 1100T so the 1090T will use even more power. I'd guess that if I did OC the 1100T aswell it would use less power than the 1090T at the same clock. Probably run cooler too adn OC further without raising vcore. I'm no expert though so could be completely wrong.
For me the extra £20 is worth it, I'm not buying till next month either so maybe the 1100T will be a bit cheaper then, or if I'm lucky catch it on TWO or TO.

Is that RAM I plucked out of the air the best to go for then? That was lucky.

Thans for your help stulid.
 
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Well I'm back, was going to wait and see what happened with bulldozer.. woops :)

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Thanks for the help Stulid, will build it up tomorrow hopefully.
 
Yeah it's the baby fanless 400W :)

Will post some before after benchies and pics when I'm finished, just slipstreaming my update pack with nLite ready to start.

The D14 box is big, there is only <2cm of cardboard padding around the outside and one side holds the mounting brackets ect. Adequate more than over the top I'd say. I wouldn't want any more or any less, it's all cardboard aswell so easily recyclable :)
 
Just about..

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Wish I had connected this before installing the D14, it chewed my knuckles right up.

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Going to get some filters, more fans, a new controller and hard drive enclosures, then it'll be complete.

Just installing apps and trying to figure out the temp sensors..

Open hardware monitor says

Temp 1: 27
Temp 2: 24
Temp 3: 30

imediatly booting into BIOS it says

System: 27
CPU: 25

I'm guessing Temp1 is motherboard, Temp2 is CPU and Temp3 is something else, maybe chipset. Does that sound right?

This is during the 5th run of ibt this morning, after just turning it on with a window open, although the 2 exhaust fans and the 2 D14 fans are turned right down on my fan controller.

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If I'm right about the temp sensors I'm impressed with these, MB running around 30C and not moving under load, my old board would idle at high 30's and be at 42-44C under load without turning the fans up.

Overclocking and benchies later, not sure if it's the PSU or the MB but voltages are rock solid, no vdroop at all at stock. Can't wait to get Ocing.
 
Yep it's the 690.

I'm using VideoRedo and Gordian Knot (VirtualDub/Besweet) mainly. They use all six cores, accept besweet because it's single threaded.

With a 23min mpeg it's 3 mins quicker to encode to xvid than my old setup. First and second pass are 200FPS vs 130FPS.
 
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