I'm building a new rig soon and I want to be sure to get the best performance. I will be using it for mainly video editing (After Effects/Premiere/photoshop cs6) and 3d work (blender 3d) so I assume the CPU matters the most in this case. I will be doing a bit of gaming but I don't really care weather I can do medium or high or ultra settings, I just want gameplay to be smooth. I play Tf2, battlefield BC2, BF3, Portal, and assassins creed mostly (Will probably get more games in the future) at 1080p. My budget is around $500 but i can stretch it to maybe $600-650 if its really worth it.
What I've been thinking is the new amd fx 8 core processors since they are supposed to be better at multithreaded things (like video 3d work), but maybe I'd be better off with just a phenom x4 965 since its cheaper and then investing extra HDDs and SSDs and maybe a good video card and ram or something else.
Basically I just want to know some recommendations on a good build for me.
Is the 8120/8320/8350 worth it over the 4 or 6 cores? And how does the phenom 965 compare to it? What kind of graphics card should I get? I've pretty much decided on the gtx560 since its NVIDIA and supports the CUDA in after effects, but maybe I should spend the extra $50 on the GTX 660 with 3x as many cuda cores? Or would I be better off with a better CPU and a cheaper GPU? I am probably going to keep the monitor/HDD/windows 7 copy/disk drive from my old system but the mobo and cpu and gpu and everything are horrible and not worth keeping.
Could someone give me a good build around the fx 8120 or some goodfx cpu?
Would this be a good build?
Rosewill Challenger - $40
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
$109.99 (Or maybe the cheaper 970 for $80 is it worth it to get this 990 over that?)
GIGABYTE GV-N660OC-2GD GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
$239
NVIDIA Gift PC Game Assassin's Creed 3
Item #: N82E16800999298
Return Policy: Standard Return Policy
-$49.99 Saving
$49.99
$0.00
Could I afford to just get a $140 gtx 560? Not sure I really want this expensive 660
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro M2 RS620-SPM2E3-US 620W ATX12V V2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Full Modular ...
Item #: N82E16817171068
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-$30.00 Instant
$25.00 Mail-in Rebate Card
$119.99
$89.99
not sure about this one at all, could i get a cheaper one? How many watts do i need? ^
G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C10D-16GAO
Item #: N82E16820231558
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$69.99
Really cheap and I could potentially upgrade in the future to 32gb, lol.
AMD FX-8120 Zambezi 3.1GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8120FRGUBOX
$160
I know I need to cheap out somewhere but Im not sure where.
What I've been thinking is the new amd fx 8 core processors since they are supposed to be better at multithreaded things (like video 3d work), but maybe I'd be better off with just a phenom x4 965 since its cheaper and then investing extra HDDs and SSDs and maybe a good video card and ram or something else.
Basically I just want to know some recommendations on a good build for me.
Is the 8120/8320/8350 worth it over the 4 or 6 cores? And how does the phenom 965 compare to it? What kind of graphics card should I get? I've pretty much decided on the gtx560 since its NVIDIA and supports the CUDA in after effects, but maybe I should spend the extra $50 on the GTX 660 with 3x as many cuda cores? Or would I be better off with a better CPU and a cheaper GPU? I am probably going to keep the monitor/HDD/windows 7 copy/disk drive from my old system but the mobo and cpu and gpu and everything are horrible and not worth keeping.
Could someone give me a good build around the fx 8120 or some goodfx cpu?
Would this be a good build?
Rosewill Challenger - $40
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
$109.99 (Or maybe the cheaper 970 for $80 is it worth it to get this 990 over that?)
GIGABYTE GV-N660OC-2GD GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
$239
NVIDIA Gift PC Game Assassin's Creed 3
Item #: N82E16800999298
Return Policy: Standard Return Policy
-$49.99 Saving
$49.99
$0.00
Could I afford to just get a $140 gtx 560? Not sure I really want this expensive 660
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro M2 RS620-SPM2E3-US 620W ATX12V V2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Full Modular ...
Item #: N82E16817171068
Return Policy: Standard Return Policy
Protect Your Investment (expand for options)
-$30.00 Instant
$25.00 Mail-in Rebate Card
$119.99
$89.99
not sure about this one at all, could i get a cheaper one? How many watts do i need? ^
G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C10D-16GAO
Item #: N82E16820231558
Return Policy: Iron Egg Guarantee Return Policy
$69.99
Really cheap and I could potentially upgrade in the future to 32gb, lol.
AMD FX-8120 Zambezi 3.1GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8120FRGUBOX
$160
I know I need to cheap out somewhere but Im not sure where.