What CPU should I upgrade to?

[liam_abrown]

To cut an extremely long story short I need a new CPU as I am capturing HD and it has my CPU at 70%-100% within 5 seconds!

With my mobo I am not going to get the power I need (Gigabyte M61PME-S2P) so I am looking at going for Intel i5 or i7.

This are the 2 packages I was looking at:

a)

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Leading the way in bespoke PC systems and PC gaming, any and all of your components & peripherals needs are met with our vast range of products and services.

www.overclockers.co.uk

b)

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Leading the way in bespoke PC systems and PC gaming, any and all of your components & peripherals needs are met with our vast range of products and services.

www.overclockers.co.uk

I have spoke to a few people and they have said get the Asus P7P55D, i5 750 and 4GB 1600MHz dual channel ram and just over clock myself for about £70 less than that package. My question is do you think I should go for this set up for HD capturing and rendering or would you recommend something else?

I will put the mobo, CPU and Ram into my current build which is:

Antech gaming case
ATI Radeon 512MB 4850 GDDR3 PCI-E
Seagate barracuda 500GB 7200.12 (I might set-up Raid 0 if I need to record uncompressed)
Corsair VX 450W power supply

Is all that fine?

Items which shall be replaced:

Gigabyte M61PME-S2P
Kingston hyper X 4GB DDR2 800MHz ram
AMD Athlon II dual core 245 - 2.9GHz

 

[hubby1989]

i7 920, Any socket 1366 motherboard from a top end manufacturer (ASUS/GIGABYTE), Tri Channel DDR3 6GB RAM....

 

[liam_abrown]

i7 920, Any socket 1366 motherboard from a top end manufacturer (ASUS/GIGABYTE), Tri Channel DDR3 6GB RAM....

I have just checked out these benchmark comparisons and for the extra £50 to go from i5750 to i7 920 does it really seem worth it?

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/default.aspx?p=47&p2=109

 

[bJN]

I would think that an i5 system would be sufficient for your needs, taking into account your requirements and price vs performance - I just feel the i7 isn't exactly needed in your case, but by all means be free to purchase it if you'd rather