Need Advice, Gaming and Photo/Video Editing PC 800€

[ronaldinho10]

Approximate Purchase Date: In a week or two

Budget Range: 800€

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming (CoD4 and CSS), Photo/Video Editing (Vegas, Affter Effects and Photoshop), I also want to start learning 3ds-max.

Parts Not Required: keyboard, mouse, monitor, OS

Country: Portugal

Overclocking: Yes


This is the build that i am thinking:

CPU - Intel® Core™ i5-2500k
http://www.pixmania.com/pt/pt/8314868/art/intel/core-i5-2500k-3-3-ghz-cac.html

MotherBoard - Asus P8P67-M PRO
http://www.pixmania.com/pt/pt/9291909/art/asus/p8p67-m-pro-rev-b3-socket.html

GPU - ATI Radeon™ HD 5850
http://www.imperiomultimedia.com/detail/index.php?id=4080

Harddrive - WESTERN DIGITAL Caviar Blue WD10EALX 3,5" - 1 TB
http://www.pixmania.com/pt/pt/8165566/art/western-digital/disco-rigido-interno-cavi.html

Power Supply - Corsair Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 - 650 W
http://www.pixmania.com/pt/pt/9179479/art/corsair/fonte-de-alimentacao-pc-e.html

RAM - Gskill DDR3 Sniper 8GB 1,333Mhz F3-10666CL9D
http://www.pcdiga.com/pcdiga/Produto.asp?Artigo=8366][/url]

Case - Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced
http://www.pixmania.com/pt/pt/4626425/art/cooler-master/caixa-pc-cm-690-ii-advanc.html

This is going to be my first build.
I would appreciate your opinions and suggestions.

 

[manu 11]

nice rig out there, go with the samsung spinpoint f3. faster and cheaper
http://www.pixmania.com/pt/pt/4121963/art/samsung/disco-rigido-interno-spin.html

 

[grody]

Old article but relevant to your needs:
Performance Gaming Vs. Workstation: GeForce GTX 280 And Quadro FX 4800.

 

[metal orient]

What country do you live in?

Nevermind, the link gave it away

 

[ronaldinho10]

Thanks for the article grody.

About the hard drive I was thinking of buying a SATA3 to use in the future what do you think? does not pay?

 

[sanchaz]

@manu 11
the harddrive you suggested is Sata 2 vs the harddrive he's chosen which is Sata 3.
So it really depends on the usage he's gonna give the harddrive.

but i dont see him having to access tons of little files, so i guess the sata3 would be preferable over Sata 2, even if the samsung access times are a bit better.

EDIT: Samsung does seem to have much higher Buffer To Disk Rate 250 vs 126 from WD.
Yeah i guess the samsung would be better.

@grody
nvidia... lol

 

[metal orient]

@manu 11
the harddrive you suggested is Sata 2 vs the harddrive he's chosen which is Sata 3.
So it really depends on the usage he's gonna give the harddrive.

but i dont see him having to access tons of little files, so i guess the sata3 would be preferable over Sata 2, even if the samsung access times are a bit better.

EDIT: Samsung does seem to have much higher Buffer To Disk Rate 250 vs 126 from WD.
Yeah i guess the samsung would be better.

I was always told that SATA3 on any mechanical drive was irrelevant as SATA2 has more bandwidth than they can use.

 

[sanchaz]

fair enough my understanding of hard drives is not much.
but yeah the buffer to disk rate proves that.

EDIT: this seems like a good explanation http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/258129-32-transfer-rate

 

[grody]

@grody
nvidia... lol

He could also consider getting a FirePro card as well. I wanted him to be aware of his video card choice given his build usage (3D Studio Max).

 

[pepe2907]

He could also consider getting a FirePro card as well. I wanted him to be aware of his video card choice given his build usage (3D Studio Max).

Firepro for gaming? Forget about this. And as somebody with years of experience /professional, including "production environment"/ with 3ds max I may say - it's working well with regular multypurpose graphics cards.

 

[manu 11]

firepro is good for 3d studio max but its not really ment for gaming.