- Sep 14, 2011
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first, some background. At 68 yrs old, with no computer literacy i built my first computer 2 yrs ago
CPU i7-4790 (4.0 GHz)
16 GB ram
GPU - Nvidia GTX 750 Ti, 2 GB
my main use was and is to render video files - when i first built it, my rendering time on an approx 35 GB video file was 3 hours on my previous duo core (e8500 iirc) computer, and it dropped to 35-40 minutes on the i7-4790 cpu, which was tremendous drop. This was all using Handbrake to render the files to a managable 5-8 GB size.
Well, we recently bought a 4k TV and i'm getting ready to upgrade the computer to 4k capability. Remembering the drop in rendering times going to a 4 core cpu, can I expect a similiar drop in rendering time, and considering jumping to 4k video files, at least avoiding an increase in rendering times.
One thing i remember, (it's been a couple of years since i've been on the forum), another poster and i compared rendering times for the same movie file, and we were both surprised i had a faster render time even though he was running a i7-5920 or 5930 series cpu with six cores, but his cpu clock speed was down in the mid 3s, ie 3.4 or 3.5GHz - we then wondered if clock speed was more critical to render speed rather than cores. The i7-5960x stock is 3.0 GHz, but can be overclocked, with 4.0 - 4.2 seeming to the reported max stable OC.
On a side note, i was surprised when I rendered some files with and without the Nvidia GTX 750 Ti GPU, and got the same rendering times with the intel integrated gpu - so i removed it from the system
so the question is, is an 8 core cpu, like the i7-59260x going to speed up rendering times? Obviously, as it doesn't come with an integrated gpu, i'll need a GPU card. Recommendations there also sought
thanks for your time
CPU i7-4790 (4.0 GHz)
16 GB ram
GPU - Nvidia GTX 750 Ti, 2 GB
my main use was and is to render video files - when i first built it, my rendering time on an approx 35 GB video file was 3 hours on my previous duo core (e8500 iirc) computer, and it dropped to 35-40 minutes on the i7-4790 cpu, which was tremendous drop. This was all using Handbrake to render the files to a managable 5-8 GB size.
Well, we recently bought a 4k TV and i'm getting ready to upgrade the computer to 4k capability. Remembering the drop in rendering times going to a 4 core cpu, can I expect a similiar drop in rendering time, and considering jumping to 4k video files, at least avoiding an increase in rendering times.
One thing i remember, (it's been a couple of years since i've been on the forum), another poster and i compared rendering times for the same movie file, and we were both surprised i had a faster render time even though he was running a i7-5920 or 5930 series cpu with six cores, but his cpu clock speed was down in the mid 3s, ie 3.4 or 3.5GHz - we then wondered if clock speed was more critical to render speed rather than cores. The i7-5960x stock is 3.0 GHz, but can be overclocked, with 4.0 - 4.2 seeming to the reported max stable OC.
On a side note, i was surprised when I rendered some files with and without the Nvidia GTX 750 Ti GPU, and got the same rendering times with the intel integrated gpu - so i removed it from the system
so the question is, is an 8 core cpu, like the i7-59260x going to speed up rendering times? Obviously, as it doesn't come with an integrated gpu, i'll need a GPU card. Recommendations there also sought
thanks for your time
. the last time I helped someone with rendering was a solid 5 years ago and he was doing some serious video editing. So hopefully the information I gave you is still relevant to this day and age.
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