manofchalk said:
After Effects if you ever get into it can consume an ungodly amount of RAM if your doing something complex. Get 2x8GB, it performs better (slightly) and leaves you with an upgrade path later on. Dont bother with speeds above 1600-1866Mhz, its not worth the premium.
There are programs out there that can create RAMDisk's, for all intents and purposes they act like any HDD on your machine except with RAM speed. As for backing up RAMDisk contents, no idea TBH. I would assume that the software to create it would have some kind of utility for it.
1300W is way more than you need, I reckon that system could run quite comfortably off an 850W.
Places to cut down.
- Motherboard, you really dont need something that expensive. A board around the Extreme4's price-point will be plenty sufficient.
- PSU, fairly obvious. Get an 850W and you dont need a high end rating, the difference between 80+ Cert and Gold is 5%, really not that much.
- How much do you have set aside for the water-cooling? I would think that for a CPU and dual GPU loop you wouldn't need spend more than ~$550.
- Also probably worth looking into if getting your own water-block is cheaper than a HydroCopper.
Places to spend more
- Storage, you need more and faster of it. On a machine dedicated to video-capture and editing, how long do you think 1TB will last? Also would a single HDD be able to keep up with (I presume) 1080p 60hz footage being recorded to it? My advice is you beef up your storage, something like a 4TB (2x2TB) RAID0 to record too with another 2TB for programs, games, personal stuff, etc. SSD for OS and important programs.
I suppose I should clarify a thing or two. On water cooling, I'm splitting the budget between September and January. I won't actually be overclocking a thing until I complete the build. So I'll just be running a current water cooling budget of 550-600 bucks. In January, I'll be picking up an external radiator and after more research I've decided on running two loops, one just for my CPU so with a 360x60mm radiator (the one I'm buying now) and another for the two 780's of either 420x60 or 480x60 (or possibly a Mora pro 2 if the wife still loves me then) externally with a second pump. And that's just because I'll have the budget for it in January and would like to push temps as low as possible. Until January, everything is a stop gap.
I found the Cooler Master V1000 that's got some nice features and is running for $144.99 after rebates, so I figure I'll go with that:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
I definitely agree that the 1300watt is way too much for my build, but I think I'd be hard pressed to find a price that would really make me want to switch off the Cooler Master.
If I went for an Extreme4, would that hold up to heavy overclocks later? I know I don't need Dual x16 for SLI so I'm not too concern with that, but with my first watercooling setup, I'm really looking forward to pushing the clocks as high as I can, I'm even picking up the EVBot to play around with the classifieds.
As far as the Hydro Copper equipped classifieds, it seems to either match the cost of other full cover aftermarket blocks or slightly beat them while including the cost of the fittings and being one less thing I have to manually attach myself.
On the Hard Drives, we have 5tbs of network storage and I'll be bringing over another 1tb hard drive from the old computer. So I don't really need much more than that as we don't save the original footage after rendering and after the video is uploaded it goes to sit on the network drive for a month or two. I really already have more storage than I need with our work habbits. lol
Is there any real price/performance advantage for running an SSD in raid configuration? If not I think I'll just put more money into the upcoming monitor upgrade/watercooling.
Thanks for the advice by the way.