- Feb 5, 2012
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Hey everyone I've got a bit of a computer dilemma and am hoping to get your thoughts about what I should do.
I built my first custom home computer just over 4 years ago now and have been super happy with it ever since. I built it mainly with the idea of being a very good home computer and a decent gaming computer and it has been super for everything I had thrown at it so far. I'm at a cross roads now though where I find myself throwing more at it then it seems comfortable with a lot of the time and I figure that with how longs its gonna take me to save up any money its probably time for me to start figuring out a plan that I can work towards.
Within the last few months I have began doing a moderate amount of video editing and a sizable amount of picture editing. I backpack a lot and tend to edit a few thousand pictures a month from my trips and such. With this new uptick in video and photo processing I've noticed my computer starting to max out more then usual especially when rendering out videos or Jpegs. I do a lot of time lapse work which requires rendering out a few thousand pictures into Jpeg form and then combining and processing into a sped up video which then also gets rendered out. During this process I find my CPU sticking at the 95-100% mark for the entire process. It doesn't seem to have any problems with heat during that period never reaching much higher then 50c but it does worry me that its maxing out so often now and with plans to further increase my video and photo editing time I do wonder what I should do about it.
So that brings me to computer specs. I'll go ahead and list out whats in the box right now and then mention what thoughts and concerns I have with upgrading.
Case Antec 300 Illusion running 5 case fans ( 4 120s, and 1 140)
Fairly standard GIGABYTE GA-P67X-UD3-B3 Mobo
Intel Core i5 2500k Sandy Bridge CPU with a hyper 212 cooler
16gbs of G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3 1333 9-9-9-24 Ram
250gb SSD
1Tb media Drive
1TB backup Drive
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GPU
650W PSU
Windows 10 with dual 27" monitors
So thats what I'm running right now and I am just not sure what to do about improving performance. I was hoping to avoid having to build an entirely new computer because of money problems but I don't know what else to do. I was looking at current cpu's and was checking in on how much it would cost to build a whole new PC built around an i7-5820k and its looking like 800$ minimum for something decent there between the cost of the cpu and the high price of DDR4 ram. If I moved over to an i5-6600k I would really only need the cpu and mobo and could stay around the 350$ part range which is much more acceptable but when I started looking at bench marks of the 2500k and the 6600k it didn't seem like there was that big of a difference between the 2, at least not a 350$ difference. So like I said at the outset I've got a dilemma at hand. What do you guys think I should do about my situation? is there another alternative I've missed?
I built my first custom home computer just over 4 years ago now and have been super happy with it ever since. I built it mainly with the idea of being a very good home computer and a decent gaming computer and it has been super for everything I had thrown at it so far. I'm at a cross roads now though where I find myself throwing more at it then it seems comfortable with a lot of the time and I figure that with how longs its gonna take me to save up any money its probably time for me to start figuring out a plan that I can work towards.
Within the last few months I have began doing a moderate amount of video editing and a sizable amount of picture editing. I backpack a lot and tend to edit a few thousand pictures a month from my trips and such. With this new uptick in video and photo processing I've noticed my computer starting to max out more then usual especially when rendering out videos or Jpegs. I do a lot of time lapse work which requires rendering out a few thousand pictures into Jpeg form and then combining and processing into a sped up video which then also gets rendered out. During this process I find my CPU sticking at the 95-100% mark for the entire process. It doesn't seem to have any problems with heat during that period never reaching much higher then 50c but it does worry me that its maxing out so often now and with plans to further increase my video and photo editing time I do wonder what I should do about it.
So that brings me to computer specs. I'll go ahead and list out whats in the box right now and then mention what thoughts and concerns I have with upgrading.
Case Antec 300 Illusion running 5 case fans ( 4 120s, and 1 140)
Fairly standard GIGABYTE GA-P67X-UD3-B3 Mobo
Intel Core i5 2500k Sandy Bridge CPU with a hyper 212 cooler
16gbs of G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3 1333 9-9-9-24 Ram
250gb SSD
1Tb media Drive
1TB backup Drive
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GPU
650W PSU
Windows 10 with dual 27" monitors
So thats what I'm running right now and I am just not sure what to do about improving performance. I was hoping to avoid having to build an entirely new computer because of money problems but I don't know what else to do. I was looking at current cpu's and was checking in on how much it would cost to build a whole new PC built around an i7-5820k and its looking like 800$ minimum for something decent there between the cost of the cpu and the high price of DDR4 ram. If I moved over to an i5-6600k I would really only need the cpu and mobo and could stay around the 350$ part range which is much more acceptable but when I started looking at bench marks of the 2500k and the 6600k it didn't seem like there was that big of a difference between the 2, at least not a 350$ difference. So like I said at the outset I've got a dilemma at hand. What do you guys think I should do about my situation? is there another alternative I've missed?
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