- Apr 11, 2011
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Before I begin, let me preface this by hoping there's a couple slick pros out there who can shed some light on this. I'm new here, but everyone starts somewhere.
*****Skip this if you don't need to know how I arrived here*****
After many months of frustration over any lack of control over my rig, my fantasizing over computer components needs to be sated. I felt it's time to finally upgrade to something a bit beefier from a cheaper pre-built system, to one I can control the type and quality of components going into my system.
My current rig isn't terrible by any means, but I'm finding out around every turn how stuck I am with it. It's a pre-built HP system that, at the time, I got at such a steal on I couldn't resist. Although it has it's many shortfalls, it still does the job relatively well. (it can almost play crysis 2 on extreme)
My main frustrations have come from the gaming end, but also from use of Adobe software. Every time I want to render video on Adobe I want to throw my computer out the window because of how long it takes. Another thing I find is that I get a bottleneck between my processor and CPU because of a terrible motherboard when trying to find optimal gaming settings. (ZERO ability to overclock anything)
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Here is where I get confused. After reading an article on the sight comparing CPUs I was surprised to find that a i7 2600k was only slightly better than it's little i5-2500k brother. That didn't make a lot of sense to me as that wouldn't justify the $100 difference (but what do I know, right?) Of course there are differences, but as far as processing power, I got the impression it was better to go for the i5, and put the money I saved towards something else.
Here's my snag. Will adding in Adobe software make the decision easier as I like to dabble in it quite frequently? Maybe I'm off my rocker completely as rendering utilizes the RAM and has little to do with the CPU. Is there a magic combination of CPU and RAM timings for this kind of performance? What say ye?
*****Skip this if you don't need to know how I arrived here*****
After many months of frustration over any lack of control over my rig, my fantasizing over computer components needs to be sated. I felt it's time to finally upgrade to something a bit beefier from a cheaper pre-built system, to one I can control the type and quality of components going into my system.
My current rig isn't terrible by any means, but I'm finding out around every turn how stuck I am with it. It's a pre-built HP system that, at the time, I got at such a steal on I couldn't resist. Although it has it's many shortfalls, it still does the job relatively well. (it can almost play crysis 2 on extreme)
My main frustrations have come from the gaming end, but also from use of Adobe software. Every time I want to render video on Adobe I want to throw my computer out the window because of how long it takes. Another thing I find is that I get a bottleneck between my processor and CPU because of a terrible motherboard when trying to find optimal gaming settings. (ZERO ability to overclock anything)
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Here is where I get confused. After reading an article on the sight comparing CPUs I was surprised to find that a i7 2600k was only slightly better than it's little i5-2500k brother. That didn't make a lot of sense to me as that wouldn't justify the $100 difference (but what do I know, right?) Of course there are differences, but as far as processing power, I got the impression it was better to go for the i5, and put the money I saved towards something else.
Here's my snag. Will adding in Adobe software make the decision easier as I like to dabble in it quite frequently? Maybe I'm off my rocker completely as rendering utilizes the RAM and has little to do with the CPU. Is there a magic combination of CPU and RAM timings for this kind of performance? What say ye?
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