Help Building a New Computer

[zarx]

snakenobi said:

zarx said:

So you will want a high end GPU then

 

1080p is pretty heavy so you will need a lot of HDD, RAM and a good CPU

 

GPU can help but not all programs support it so it may not be a good idea to relly on it to heavily especially with editing a lot CPU is still really important. It may be worth checking what programs you will be using.

 

It does make a difference but it's not huge and offers diminishing returns higher you go, usally you are usally better spending money on other things tho I wouldn't go below DDR3-1600 for a high performance PC like you are building.

so which CPU 2600K or extreme

also remember 2600k can be overclocked

if it will do with overclocking,how fast does spu run out as in diminish life cycle of a cpu

 

also suggest ram,i was gonna buy 10-12gbs of it

 

and wat do you think of SSD as system drive

or ssd as cache(checkout intel Z68 mobo,they have ssd cache thing)

how should i deal with cache?

Depending on price (I am not sure how much they are where you are) I would probably lean towards the 3930k considering what you want it for and that you want it to be reasonably future proof. check http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i7-3960x-3930k_10.html#sect0 and http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-3930k-3820-test-benchmark,3090-7.html for an indictaion on the advantage it offers, but it will probably end up being a bit to expensive for the advantage for you.

If you do decide to go with the 3930k you will have quad channel RAM so I would suggest 4x4GB for a total of 16GB, otherwise I would say that 8GB would be the absolute minimum for a video editing machine that will be sticking arround for a while ~16 would probably be the sweet spot,video editing is very RAM heavy from what I know so I wouldn't skimp to much. Tho RAM is easy to upgrade so if you want to save a bit in the short term and upgrade the RAM later that is easy to do so if it comes down to cutting CPU/GPU or adding more RAM I would probably cut the RAM and get more later. If you are using after effects tho you may want to consider 24GB+ as that is a monster for RAM.

I haven't really had much experiance with SSDs so I would deffer that to someone else.