Hello everybody,
At the moment I have:
Intel Core 2 Duo, E8400 (stock)
4x2GB kingston DDR2-800 RAM
Sapphire Radeon HD4850 GPU
250 GB Samsung SSD
Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm 320 GB HDD
Be Quiet Straight Power (E6) 550Watt PSU
Asus P5E MB
Sharkoon Rebel9 case
As you can see it is quite the old rig with an SSD strapped on it.
It served me well throughout the 8 years I have owned it.
But now I need a bit more performance because I would like to be able to stream and video edit the light games (world of tanks mostly) that I can play on it (on very low settings with barely 30 FPS).
Also some video editing, vlogging and making youtube videos from an action cam, everything at 1080p.
So I was thinking of giving this old rig an upgrade that I can use for a new build if the upgrade is not enough.
1. Thinking my CPU is my biggest bottleneck here, first step I wanted to try was adding some new thermal paste (must be dried up after 8 years) and overclock the E8400 on stock cooling as much as possible.
2. For the GPU I am a bit lost, maybe i can overclock it a litte after new thermal paste or buy another cheap used HD4850 and SLI them or some other cheap GPU thats a big upgrade or buying a Zotac GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card, I know the P5E MB only has PCI-e 2.0, i believe it is backward compatible and will bottleneck the GPU but I can use it in my new system if needed.
3. If this is not sufficient I will buy a new system and keep the old one functional:
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/wm2DxY
Any feedback is highly appreciated, I have about $900,- to spend on the new rig if it is really needed, but I think this should be able to do what I want to do with it.
One more wild question, would it be feasible to run 2 used Xeon 2670 with an T7600 WorkStation Intel Dual 2011 SKT R Motherboard 82WXTfor example, gives me 16 cores and 32 threads for good editing and light gaming.
Thanks in advance,
Cheers!
At the moment I have:
Intel Core 2 Duo, E8400 (stock)
4x2GB kingston DDR2-800 RAM
Sapphire Radeon HD4850 GPU
250 GB Samsung SSD
Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm 320 GB HDD
Be Quiet Straight Power (E6) 550Watt PSU
Asus P5E MB
Sharkoon Rebel9 case
As you can see it is quite the old rig with an SSD strapped on it.
It served me well throughout the 8 years I have owned it.
But now I need a bit more performance because I would like to be able to stream and video edit the light games (world of tanks mostly) that I can play on it (on very low settings with barely 30 FPS).
Also some video editing, vlogging and making youtube videos from an action cam, everything at 1080p.
So I was thinking of giving this old rig an upgrade that I can use for a new build if the upgrade is not enough.
1. Thinking my CPU is my biggest bottleneck here, first step I wanted to try was adding some new thermal paste (must be dried up after 8 years) and overclock the E8400 on stock cooling as much as possible.
2. For the GPU I am a bit lost, maybe i can overclock it a litte after new thermal paste or buy another cheap used HD4850 and SLI them or some other cheap GPU thats a big upgrade or buying a Zotac GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card, I know the P5E MB only has PCI-e 2.0, i believe it is backward compatible and will bottleneck the GPU but I can use it in my new system if needed.
3. If this is not sufficient I will buy a new system and keep the old one functional:
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/wm2DxY
Any feedback is highly appreciated, I have about $900,- to spend on the new rig if it is really needed, but I think this should be able to do what I want to do with it.
One more wild question, would it be feasible to run 2 used Xeon 2670 with an T7600 WorkStation Intel Dual 2011 SKT R Motherboard 82WXTfor example, gives me 16 cores and 32 threads for good editing and light gaming.
Thanks in advance,
Cheers!