Second PC, First Gaming/other rig.

flamealchemis

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So here I have this old pc which I usually used for normal gaming, but then I slowly treaded into the world of photoshop, video editing, Autocad, Lumian and after effects to be plain. But now I am thinking of upgrading the pc finally because I cannot keep up with the lag and the slow performance of the PC and I have learnt enough of the softwares to use the new rig to a good amount.
Here is my old pc build: I would be most probably using only the Powersupply from it and as well as the hard disks.
Processor: Inter Core 2 Duo CPU E7200 @2.53Ghz
Motherboard: DG31PR
Ram: 4GB (2x2GB vengeance 1600 DDR2)
Graphic Card: AMD Radeon HD 5770
Harddisk: WD 500gb and WD1.5TB Black Caviar
Casing: Nothing Great just a local one
PowerSupply: Antec Earthwatt 650W Atx 12v v2.2
Windows: Windows 8.1
Im hoping that I wouldn’t have to change the powersupply. But that’s for you to tell me.

And the new setup that im hoping to get.
Processor: Intel Core i7 4771 4th generation. 3.4 GHz Cache max turbo freq. 3.9ghz
Graphic Card: Gigabyte GTX780 3072MB, GDDR5, Core Clock 954MHz, Memory Clock 6008MHz.
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VI Hero LGA 1150, Z87 Socket.
Ram: Corsair Vengeance 16GB 2400BUS DDR3 8GB x 2.
Chasis Corsair Chassis Vengeance c70 Military Gaming Case.
Hard Disk: Western Digital 3TB 3.5” Sata Hard Drive 64Mb Cache Caviar Green.

So am I going alright on my new setup?
Yes I would be installing more fans into the system soon, but wont (cant) hit the liquid cooling. But keeping in mind that I live in a hot and humid climate. Fans are must, but will the 3 fans in the Chassis already will they work out?

 
That power supply should work, but the 780 is pretty close to its limit. I would go for an 8320 if you're going to be using things like Autocad, and maybe an Asus M5A97 R2. It will save you a bit of money for some better cooling.
 

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Umm what do you mean by that the 780 is close to its limit? Sadly amd 8000 series of amd isint available in the region im in.
 

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I would instead go with a 4770(unless the 4771 is cheaper).
No need for a z board with a locked processor.
Might wanna consider 2 x 2tb(or 1tb) instead. Bad to store all work on 1 drive.
 
The 780 requires a good 600w power supply. I suggested the 8320 because it performs very similarly to the 4770 in programs like autocad, a bit slower, but also half the price. The 477x (doesn't matter too much, really) is better, though, it just depends on how much you want to pay for a small improvement.
Just read that you can't get AMD CPUs, so yeah, like vmN said, you don't need a really nice OC board when you can't OC. Where do you live?
 

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I actually thinks haswell have it advantages over piledriver in autoCAD. I think autoCAD is using a lot of FP instructions, and piledriver are sharing the FP units, making it working as a normal 4 core. To be clear I am not 100% sure it used alot of FP instructions, but I could imagine it does.
 
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Umm so you are saying that i5 is putting out more rendered pixels per second.
I'm gonna go with the i7 4770k here the price got lowered a bit (thanks for pointing out the Z series of the motherboard). I dont know if I can post links over here but here in our country this site is the main distributer. www.galaxy.pk or www.galaxy.com.pk

AMD processors are not available here. And would I have to spend another buck to get a better powersupply for this new setup or shall i stick to this one.