Help Building a New Computer

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zarx said:

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.

u didn't answer the ram vs channel question?

if ram is put in for exmaple,if the processor supports 3 channel and i put in 4 ram sticks,will it effect performance

 

3930x costs me $1200 and 3960x costs me $1400 in india,is it worth it or will intel bring 6core processors for $300 in 1.5-2 year time

 

how much ram compensates in encoding time for cpu power

 

does cache has to do anything with performace time as i can buy an ssd if needed,a small one