Personal Home Workstation

[blitztech]

Well, i just made my spare rig a handy overkill server

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My laptop is great for posting but I want a home PC that I can render videos pictures, php files, web design and some programming, settle down at night and massicer noobs on MW3 and Battlefeild 3. Budget is $1400USD. Need a CPU and motherboad that can host a lot of RAM. 1366 is too hot and too expensive, so that leaves 1155 and 2011, since I have a spare GTX 580 Hydro Copper 2 i'll use that for graphics.

AMD has nothing to offer, so, if you mention AMD your comments will be ignore. My resolution I work on is 7680x4800 so the CPU needs to keep up. And i shut off my PC once a month.

Thanks.

PS: First time I will have PC for this kinda thing. I can do alot to a PC, but overclocking it is a major weakpoint, so a fast CPU at stock is needed along with kicker RAM.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

Well, i just made my spare rig a handy overkill server

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My laptop is great for posting but I want a home PC that I can render videos pictures, php files, web design and some programming, settle down at night and massicer noobs on MW3 and Battlefeild 3. Budget is $1400USD. Need a CPU and motherboad that can host a lot of RAM. 1366 is too hot and too expensive, so that leaves 1155 and 2011, since I have a spare GTX 580 Hydro Copper 2 i'll use that for graphics.

AMD has nothing to offer, so, if you mention AMD your comments will be ignore. My resolution I work on is 7680x4800 so the CPU needs to keep up. And i shut off my PC once a month.

Thanks.

Has to be the stupidest thing I have EVERY heard. Depending on the program you use to render could depend on whether you use AMD or Intel. Example would be Sony Vegas, if you went Intel as apposed to AMD you would be a fool. What do you use to render?

 

[xdaax]

take a look at that for a good cpu, but I would get another board.

 

[SparkleDJackson]

3930k+asus 8slot board+64gb vengeance ram. And do yourself a favour and overclock it. You have to start somewhere a few hours testing and youll be running sweet

 

[blitztech]

Has to be the stupidest thing I have EVERY heard. Depending on the program you use to render could depend on whether you use AMD or Intel. Example would be Sony Vegas, if you went Intel as apposed to AMD you would be a fool. What do you use to render?

Sony Vegas, Xilisoft, Blaze Media Pro and Adobe After Effects, some how when testing on a FX-8150 a 1GB 1080p file was not only rendered faster by a 1090T and a i7 920.

Now to be clear, it has a lot more to do than just rendering videos. Pictures and audio the FX and Phenom II chips lag behind also most boards are limited to 16gb of RAM, not so good for the mumerous virtual machines I run. Sony Vegas loves AMD chips that I have seen, but, I do not run one rendering software at a time, I run serveral. Its running when I leave to do some photography work overseas. Hope I clear things up a bit for you.

 

[blitztech]

take a look at that for a good cpu, but I would get another board.

Sorry mate out of budget, budget is only $1400USD, a Xeon processor cost near $950 and I'd need two, nice suggestion though.

 

[blitztech]

Leaving to Zambia now as long as i get a decent signal I will be looking in and @ King_Of_Sand. What you say Is true but I need more.

 

[Rastalovich]

Anyone verify that it's recommended to have 2-3g memory per cpu thread (core if you like) for After Effects ?

 

[Vicey]

3930K + Asus P9X79 Pro with 32GB of Memory should do you fine. Graphics wise I don't believe based on the program you'll be using that you would benefit from a Quadro or ATi FireGL card. So I'd recommend something like a GTX 560 or a HD 7770

If you need even more RAM that board will take 64GB of Memory utilising 8 x 8GB modules.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

Sony Vegas, Xilisoft, Blaze Media Pro and Adobe After Effects, some how when testing on a FX-8150 a 1GB 1080p file was not only rendered faster by a 1090T and a i7 920.

Now to be clear, it has a lot more to do than just rendering videos. Pictures and audio the FX and Phenom II chips lag behind also most boards are limited to 16gb of RAM, not so good for the mumerous virtual machines I run. Sony Vegas loves AMD chips that I have seen, but, I do not run one rendering software at a time, I run serveral. Its running when I leave to do some photography work overseas. Hope I clear things up a bit for you.

Very much so. You need to be this clear in the first post. If not and you say something like you did with no reason, it makes you look ignorant. Thank you for clarifying.

 

[blitztech]

Thanks for the comments lads, my suppliers do not have the 3930K in stock so I may use a 3820 instead, motherboard will be an Asus X79LE-Pro and I will use corsair dominators gt 1600mhz 32gb kit cause i got it kickin about. That leaves me with $830 so that means 2 corsair SSD in raid 1 (dont ask me why!), so new task reccommend some drives, my 2tb wd will be storage