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January 9, 2014 5:53:26 PM

Gonna get right to the chase.

My budget is strictly $1550. With that price and some connections from NCIX, I was able to get this:

GTX 770 2GB
16GB Ram 1866MHz
i7 4770k
3tb HHD
128gb SSD

I do a lot of FumeFX, and Rayfire animations on 3Ds Max and use a lot of After Effects, so it's no mystery that I need a powerful graphics card.

My question is, would you think it would be a good idea to drop the SSD ($99.99) and upgrade the graphics card to something like a GTX 770 4GB or even a GTX 780?

Your thoughts are much appreciated.

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a c 133 U Graphics card
January 9, 2014 9:09:52 PM

I dont know to what extent those programs can take advantage of a GPU, but I know that for editing purposes mainstream Nvidia cards are only useful for their CUDA. OpenCL and GPGPU performance is fairly limited on those cards compared to their AMD equivalents unless your buying a Titan.

What I would do is evaluate what your applications need. I know CUDA can be leveraged by the Adobe Suite, but other applications I dont know. Its possible that you would gain more from downgrading the graphics card and upping your CPU to LGA2011.

Also, get dual 2TB drives rather than a single 3TB drive. You want to distribute disk load as much as you can in rendering situations. If the HDD is trying to supply raw footage and project files to the CPU while also writing down the final output, your going to be bottlenecked.
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January 10, 2014 6:50:31 PM

manofchalk said:
I dont know to what extent those programs can take advantage of a GPU, but I know that for editing purposes mainstream Nvidia cards are only useful for their CUDA. OpenCL and GPGPU performance is fairly limited on those cards compared to their AMD equivalents unless your buying a Titan.

What I would do is evaluate what your applications need. I know CUDA can be leveraged by the Adobe Suite, but other applications I dont know. Its possible that you would gain more from downgrading the graphics card and upping your CPU to LGA2011.

Also, get dual 2TB drives rather than a single 3TB drive. You want to distribute disk load as much as you can in rendering situations. If the HDD is trying to supply raw footage and project files to the CPU while also writing down the final output, your going to be bottlenecked.


I've contacted the guys over at VideoCopilot.net (very professional, they've worked on Star Trek into darkness and other titles) and they said that when it comes to GPU's, more Vram is beneficial. Especially when you're working with many 3D polygons and what not.

I agree with you on the 2 HHD's idea, but like I said earlier, I'm greatly limited in budget. I'm getting the 3TB for $99.99, but If I want to get 2 2TB HHD's, that would cost about $160.

Still didn't answer my main question which is directed to the SSD. Do you think that $99.99 is completely necessary for it, especially for a fellow like me on a tight budget? Does the SSD make a dramatic increase in speed and snappiness in the system?
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a c 133 U Graphics card
January 10, 2014 10:50:19 PM

But what did they say about CPU vs GPU grunt and Nvidia vs AMD cards. Them telling you the stronger card is stronger doesn't give you much in the way of useful information.

An SSD really does make a difference to generally just using the rig. Its a night and day difference between an SSD and HDD based system.
This video is pretty old, but shows the benefits of an SSD over a HDD. Performance (and especially price) is even better now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lR0XoHFU6Y
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