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So my dad is undertaking a computer building project, because he wants to try something newer than his ancient Phenom II AMD chip for video editing, entry programming, and 3d modeling. They are all hobby ventures an are unlikely to be big budget professional work. I however do acknowledge that his Phenom II quad core is bottlenecking the graphics card of his "gtx 770" and it would definitely do wonders to switch to a more modern 6 core when rendering his video editing. Which pretty much can be summed up to the occasional 30min vid. from his go pro.
We pretty much agree on the cpu but from there there's a disagreement (although I suspect my 4 core would be more than capable satisfying him):He wants a "kickass computer". And, he feels because I cannot name what DDR4 means off the top of my head, that not much of my input is valid.
WilluDesign video
I followed this guys advice because he actually explained his reasoning in detail, instead of just pushing a product.
Linus Tech Tips video
He bases his build of off Linus here. Right of the bat he ordered the parts straight of this video (as if they were pieces to a puzzle that cannot be tweaked, based on what's currently on the market, and what's a better buy. Anyhow, he winds up returning everything thing after some sour deals with refurbished items and agreed to follow my advice about getting more modern and easy to find pc parts. However he is so rigid about the brand name of MOBO, he thinks ASUS/ASRock naming theme "WS" means its actually meant for workstations and doesn't realize that it could just be a naming scheme for THOSE particular brands.
Anyways here are 2 lists of the parts we disagree on are here.
Dads CPU, MOBO, & Memory
My Choices
Yes it's slightly less. But I figured his only concern really is overclocking (which I'd like to watch for myself). He's not running multiple graphics cards and if so I doubt he would run 5 of them. He's installing 64 GBs or ram, but from what I saw with video editing. The huge amount of ram is to do with the computers ability to access and manipulate the whole project quicker and I doubt his videos would push more than 20gbs (over all his system wouldn't go much over 4-6gbs). He is concerned with memory performance, however I've read that it boils down to CAS latency, and frequency is often a byproduct (not to mention performance increases are somewhat mediocre). Not to mention, less memory slots is better if you're not running maximum memory, even he's adamant about his 64 GBs of ram, he could just get 4x16gb kit instead of 8x8... and get better performance.
Both boards have the basics:
Raid capability, Overclockable, and supports 6 core processor. Nothing fancy here, not fancy additions aside from a possible wireless card and a sound card.
Am I wrong with my logic here, what am I not seeing here?
We pretty much agree on the cpu but from there there's a disagreement (although I suspect my 4 core would be more than capable satisfying him):He wants a "kickass computer". And, he feels because I cannot name what DDR4 means off the top of my head, that not much of my input is valid.
WilluDesign video
I followed this guys advice because he actually explained his reasoning in detail, instead of just pushing a product.
Linus Tech Tips video
He bases his build of off Linus here. Right of the bat he ordered the parts straight of this video (as if they were pieces to a puzzle that cannot be tweaked, based on what's currently on the market, and what's a better buy. Anyhow, he winds up returning everything thing after some sour deals with refurbished items and agreed to follow my advice about getting more modern and easy to find pc parts. However he is so rigid about the brand name of MOBO, he thinks ASUS/ASRock naming theme "WS" means its actually meant for workstations and doesn't realize that it could just be a naming scheme for THOSE particular brands.
Anyways here are 2 lists of the parts we disagree on are here.
Dads CPU, MOBO, & Memory
My Choices
Yes it's slightly less. But I figured his only concern really is overclocking (which I'd like to watch for myself). He's not running multiple graphics cards and if so I doubt he would run 5 of them. He's installing 64 GBs or ram, but from what I saw with video editing. The huge amount of ram is to do with the computers ability to access and manipulate the whole project quicker and I doubt his videos would push more than 20gbs (over all his system wouldn't go much over 4-6gbs). He is concerned with memory performance, however I've read that it boils down to CAS latency, and frequency is often a byproduct (not to mention performance increases are somewhat mediocre). Not to mention, less memory slots is better if you're not running maximum memory, even he's adamant about his 64 GBs of ram, he could just get 4x16gb kit instead of 8x8... and get better performance.
Both boards have the basics:
Raid capability, Overclockable, and supports 6 core processor. Nothing fancy here, not fancy additions aside from a possible wireless card and a sound card.
Am I wrong with my logic here, what am I not seeing here?
. And, I guess I grew up loving shopping, pinching pennies and designing stuff. If there was any money in building random pcs with random parts. I could spend my life researching and building.
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