Hello. I'm building a new system explicitly for video rendering purposes. So far a lot of the other components have fallen in place pretty easily. Current-gen nVidia Quadro video card to make Adobe Premiere CS5.5 happy, 1000W PSU for OC'ing purposes, etc.
Anyway, the major hangup I am having is in the CPU department. I have discounted AMD processors for this one and am going Intel. The current line of Xeon processors are a bit expensive for my needs and offer no OC ability so I am naturally looking at the Sandy Bridge-E 3930K (and thus Socket 2011) as the target platform, based on currently available processors.
However we are already most of the way through 2012 and both Haswell and Ivy Bridge-E are a few months away. If I had gotten the funding together to complete this build as intended a few months ago I would definitely have a 3930K in there. But with Haswell about half-a-year away and IB-E in '13 as well...
Any thoughts? Should I buy now, wait for a refresh, or buy a 3930K later when prices drop somewhat?
As mentioned I am going to OC this one, and I will be using water cooling as well.
Also if you have any 'video editing'-oriented MB recommendations, feel free to include them as well. I am looking at a RAID 0 setup in tandem with an SSD C: drive.
LordHaHa
Anyway, the major hangup I am having is in the CPU department. I have discounted AMD processors for this one and am going Intel. The current line of Xeon processors are a bit expensive for my needs and offer no OC ability so I am naturally looking at the Sandy Bridge-E 3930K (and thus Socket 2011) as the target platform, based on currently available processors.
However we are already most of the way through 2012 and both Haswell and Ivy Bridge-E are a few months away. If I had gotten the funding together to complete this build as intended a few months ago I would definitely have a 3930K in there. But with Haswell about half-a-year away and IB-E in '13 as well...
Any thoughts? Should I buy now, wait for a refresh, or buy a 3930K later when prices drop somewhat?
As mentioned I am going to OC this one, and I will be using water cooling as well.
Also if you have any 'video editing'-oriented MB recommendations, feel free to include them as well. I am looking at a RAID 0 setup in tandem with an SSD C: drive.
LordHaHa
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