Hi 
First post and upgrade time when I always need a little help. Its easy to get out of touch with available components unless you make hardware building into a hobby in its own right or are a voracious mag reader which I’m not.
My interest is in graphics work and rendering of pics to video shows. Current old board takes hours to do this. Its an Intel Dual core at 2.13ghz (about 5 years old).
I would like to keep as much of what I have as possible. The case is an Antec ATX with 500W PSU that is good and quiet with front and rear fans (and one in the psu).
My existing graphics card is Gigabyte GeForce 8500 GT with 512mb of DDR 2 mem and PCI express. Its fanless as I didn’t want yet another fan. I dont think I have, for non-gaming apps, any probs with this. When rendering there is little happening on screen and then only in a small window.
I have already upgraded to an SSD and W7 which has made the machine much quicker getting data but the poor old chip cant do any more with it.
So after talking to Over Clockers I’m coming up with this shopping list:
Asus Sabertooth 990X for the build quality.
AMD Phenom 1055T with 6 cores.
Arctic 7 Pro Rev 2 cooler as I have read that the one with the 1055T can be noisy and I love quiet.
8Gb of Kingston DDR 3 memory (2 x 4Gb.
So does ‘the team’ think that all items will work together happily and that I will get a worthwhile improvement. Current rendering time can be 4 hours so any guesses what that would come down to?
If there are any users of these components then their experiences would be interesting and useful.
Thanks for advice.
First post and upgrade time when I always need a little help. Its easy to get out of touch with available components unless you make hardware building into a hobby in its own right or are a voracious mag reader which I’m not.
My interest is in graphics work and rendering of pics to video shows. Current old board takes hours to do this. Its an Intel Dual core at 2.13ghz (about 5 years old).
I would like to keep as much of what I have as possible. The case is an Antec ATX with 500W PSU that is good and quiet with front and rear fans (and one in the psu).
My existing graphics card is Gigabyte GeForce 8500 GT with 512mb of DDR 2 mem and PCI express. Its fanless as I didn’t want yet another fan. I dont think I have, for non-gaming apps, any probs with this. When rendering there is little happening on screen and then only in a small window.
I have already upgraded to an SSD and W7 which has made the machine much quicker getting data but the poor old chip cant do any more with it.
So after talking to Over Clockers I’m coming up with this shopping list:
Asus Sabertooth 990X for the build quality.
AMD Phenom 1055T with 6 cores.
Arctic 7 Pro Rev 2 cooler as I have read that the one with the 1055T can be noisy and I love quiet.
8Gb of Kingston DDR 3 memory (2 x 4Gb.
So does ‘the team’ think that all items will work together happily and that I will get a worthwhile improvement. Current rendering time can be 4 hours so any guesses what that would come down to?
If there are any users of these components then their experiences would be interesting and useful.
Thanks for advice.
