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Yeah, its like I'll say I can build a PC for something like £600, and then to get it over in their country is like £900, makes it hard.
Computer Upgrade?
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IftiBashir
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As a general rule, both the GPU and RAM help for smoother editing.
CPU is geared towards rendering (although some software editors do use the GPU as well now).
If I was to upgrade 1 component to start with, as others have said, it would certainly be the CPU. Ive personaly found a Quad Core (even if a lower clock speed) to render MUCH faster then a Dual Core.
CPU is geared towards rendering (although some software editors do use the GPU as well now).
If I was to upgrade 1 component to start with, as others have said, it would certainly be the CPU. Ive personaly found a Quad Core (even if a lower clock speed) to render MUCH faster then a Dual Core.
Crypt
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If you have the extra money then it'd be worth upgrading to an i7 3770k. Also, if you're going to be gaming, rendering, etc. at the same time then an extra $50 or so for 8 more GBs of RAM is worth it in my opinion. I started off with 8GB of RAM and thought that 16 might be slight overkill but in the end I think it was a worthy upgrade.
BTW man, if the primary purpose is video editing then I would do some research and find out wether AMD or NVIDIA based GPUs give better hardware acceleration for the programs you'll be using.
Best of luck with your build
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BTW man, if the primary purpose is video editing then I would do some research and find out wether AMD or NVIDIA based GPUs give better hardware acceleration for the programs you'll be using.
Best of luck with your build
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If we're talking higher-end i5s then aren't they quad core? Aren't i7s an upgraded i5 with hyper threading for 8 virtual cores/threads? Or are the i5s just a hyper-threaded dual core?
ItsTehShadow
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If you have the extra money then it'd be worth upgrading to an i7 3770k. Also, if you're going to be gaming, rendering, etc. at the same time then an extra $50 or so for 8 more GBs of RAM is worth it in my opinion. I started off with 8GB of RAM and thought that 16 might be slight overkill but in the end I think it was a worthy upgrade.
BTW man, if the primary purpose is video editing then I would do some research and find out wether AMD or NVIDIA based GPUs give better hardware acceleration for the programs you'll be using.
Best of luck with your build
If we're talking higher-end i5s then aren't they quad core? Aren't i7s an upgraded i5 with hyper threading for 8 virtual cores/threads?
It won't be just 100% video editing, that AMD gpu is still going to need to power the latest games so I think it should be alright. If I win the lottery though, thats when I'll upgrade to a NVIDIA card, titan here I come
Crypt
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hehe fo sure[DOUBLEPOST=1369054527,1369053734][/DOUBLEPOST]btw, there is no better GPU brand. They both have there advantages. It's up to what you're going to be using it for. There is a couple main differences between the two, one brand being better for one thing, and the other brand better for something else. Give it a search on googleIt won't be just 100% video editing, that AMD gpu is still going to need to power the latest games so I think it should be alright. If I win the lottery though, thats when I'll upgrade to a NVIDIA card, titan here I come
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FireyFly
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People seem to slip over a detail that is also important, obtaining the "proper" hardware is the 1st thing yes, but do you have the proper software for it? I mean you can have the best CPU in the whole world if you run for example a 32 bit windows on it with some old video editing software and outdated drivers, that is technically an overkill, since you wont get the benefit of the hardwares you purchased. So it has to be 64bit Windows, latest 64 bit drivers for everything ( especially GPU, disk drivers, motherboard ) and most importantly a 64 bit editing software ( if there is a 64 bit version of your software ). You would ask, why this is important? Well 64 bit is in fact became a standard on CPUs thus there are some things that are commonly available, making these features something you can build on, thus companies tend to optimize their 64 bit product line even more than the 32 bit version. ( to make it clear what I'm talking about, altho a bit technical , in 32 bit CPUs everything is optional so basically a CPU made in 2007 runs as if it was made in 1990s, but newer 64 bit standard is much more modern, which means certain things are required, such as SSE1,SSE2 and MMX technologies MUST be supported otherwise it's not a proper 64 bit processor, since MMX is a multimedia acceleration technology, i.e. it makes encoding faster if it's used correctly, you get the idea why it should be better ).
Another thing to note, the GPU, I'm not talking about the card, just the chip on it, looking around a bit you may find that in certain cases the chip is better but the card technically is not superior, like, both cards support DX11. The thing is that the feature set or internal components may be better or differently aligned, and in your case a less memory on the video card and better support for OpenCL is better since the presence of OpenCL also denotes that there is support for CUDA ( if it's an nVidia card ) which in turn allows you to have GPU accelerated physics, the one that everybody knows PhysX. BUT! you have to use that one carefully since it takes away FPS since it uses the GPU to do physics instead of graphics, but if you play around with the settings carefully you can actually offload the work of the CPU to the GPU, which will make recording a bit better, since your recorder will probably use the CPU to record your gameplay. The other kind of obvious thing is that nowadays and probably in the future more programs and more efficiently will use OpenCL to do work faster, for example the latest Sony Vegas can render trough OpenCL making rendering much faster and its ought to be even faster in the future making balanced systems more suitable, so you should keep the CPU and GPU balanced, so getting a much better one than the other is not gonna get you much more performance but upgrading both at the same time in smaller steps will get better performance boost.
, in 32 bit CPUs everything is optional so basically a CPU made in 2007 runs as if it was made in 1990s, but newer 64 bit standard is much more modern, which means certain things are required, such as SSE1,SSE2 and MMX technologies MUST be supported otherwise it's not a proper 64 bit processor, since MMX is a multimedia acceleration technology, i.e. it makes encoding faster if it's used correctly, you get the idea why it should be better ).Another thing to note, the GPU, I'm not talking about the card, just the chip on it, looking around a bit you may find that in certain cases the chip is better but the card technically is not superior, like, both cards support DX11. The thing is that the feature set or internal components may be better or differently aligned, and in your case a less memory on the video card and better support for OpenCL is better since the presence of OpenCL also denotes that there is support for CUDA ( if it's an nVidia card ) which in turn allows you to have GPU accelerated physics, the one that everybody knows PhysX. BUT! you have to use that one carefully since it takes away FPS since it uses the GPU to do physics instead of graphics, but if you play around with the settings carefully you can actually offload the work of the CPU to the GPU, which will make recording a bit better, since your recorder will probably use the CPU to record your gameplay. The other kind of obvious thing is that nowadays and probably in the future more programs and more efficiently will use OpenCL to do work faster, for example the latest Sony Vegas can render trough OpenCL making rendering much faster and its ought to be even faster in the future making balanced systems more suitable, so you should keep the CPU and GPU balanced, so getting a much better one than the other is not gonna get you much more performance but upgrading both at the same time in smaller steps will get better performance boost.
ItsTehShadow
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Well thanks for all that, didn't really catch it all but I can see what you mean. I have 64bit all the latest drivers/software so thats not an issue. Also my card uses OpenCL as I'd looked into that beforehand as I wanted it compliment Sony Vegas
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Go for I7 because it has hyperthreading which increases render speed, if you can wait for the new motherboard and new processor so you don't need to upgrade any time soon.