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Later in the year, if everything carries on as it is now, I'm planning to build a machine that'll stay in my room.
I'd like to hear what suggestions you may have regarding a good value for money Core i7-based computer.
I'll want it to handle a couple of straining apps at a time.. for example video editing in Premiere and x264/mencoder [for PS3 Media Server] simultaneously without a hitch - should the time ever come that I need to do such a thing.
I'm willing to pay premium on the Motherboard and Cooling to enable high level stable overclocking... but mainly just wondering what the low-down on a decent i7 computer.
Thank ye!
motherboard>>asus
good overclocking abilities.
also if you got some spare $$ try and get a intel x25 SSD,. i have installed win7 x64 and runs perfect and fast! :)
for PS3 media server its prob best to use wired connection but i am not sure,. corei7 should be fast enough,.
I seriously doubt you'll ever need that functionality, and when you do, just set priority to low/idle and a basic CPU will do it fine (and even without that, I bet the difference won't be terribly noteworthy, as long as you don't go overboard on the encoding thread).
In all honesty, even a basic Athlon II X4 CPU is more than powerful enough for the majority of people.
But otherwise, I wouldn't go higher than an i7 860, though an i5 750 is like 65% of the price and only a tad bit slower (2.8GHz vs 2.66GHz, lacks turbo boost and hyper threading).
Otherwise, not much to say about a CPU.
Vegetano1 Wrote: [ -> ]motherboard>>asus good overclocking abilities.
That's what I've had in mind ^^
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote: [ -> ]But otherwise, I wouldn't go higher than an i7 860, though an i5 750 is like 65% of the price and only a tad bit slower (2.8GHz vs 2.66GHz, lacks turbo boost and hyper threading).
Otherwise, not much to say about a CPU.
I'll take it the i7 860 is your recommendation then ^^'
get ASUS board
i have a P6T SE, cheapest LGA1366 board around when i got it, and it is just as capable as any other. The benchmarks i get back this up.
Get a DX11 Graphics Card, i have a Radeon 5770 by Gigabyte.
I have 6GB DDR3 RAM by OCZ, plenty. Also take into account Triple Channel Memory must be bought in multiples of 3 for top performance.
You'll need a 700-800W PSU to be comfortable, mine is by OCZ and is modular to save space.
Case is completely up to you :D
As are HDDs and ODDs.
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finally
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I personally prefer Gigabyte over ASUS cause I like the Pheonix BIOS better (more used to it), but both companies make very good motherboards.
LGA1156 doesn't have triple channel, but even if you do, it's pretty much useless. I'd just get two RAM sticks unless you need more capacity - triple channel doesn't really increase performance (much).
ProperBritish Wrote: [ -> ]You'll need a 700-800W PSU to be comfortable, mine is by OCZ and is modular to save space.
PSU wattage is one of the most overrated things ever. Pretty much nothing needs a 800W PSU, you'll be able to run it on something like a 500W just fine.
Don't waste the money getting some 800W PSU that costs almost as much as your CPU, those are for people with i7 980 extreme + 2x HD5870 crossfire setups. Or dual Xeon workstation setups.
PSU calculator ==>
http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote: [ -> ]But otherwise, I wouldn't go higher than an i7 860, though an i5 750 is like 65% of the price and only a tad bit slower (2.8GHz vs 2.66GHz, lacks turbo boost and hyper threading).
Turbo boost is useless if you're overclocking, and hyper-threading at most only gives ~20-25% performance, at the best of circumstances (x264 /w --threads auto, 12 threads). Most of the time (any time your not using more than 4 threads) you probably won't get any performance increase at all with it.
I was *very* concerned when Proper suggested a PSU with such a high wattage, thanks for the link Assassinator.
Hmm...
Intel Core i7 930 or AMD Phenom II X6 1055T?
I can't decide :7
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