Need Computer advice! Upgrade or build from scratch?

VeryGamey said:
By those specs alone I would suggest just upgrading your video card. One thing to remember is that the GTX 600 & 700 series cards don't really support CUDA rendering like the previous generations did. You can still render pretty well with just your CPU, but if you plan to render and upload a lot of video to youtube I suggest you stay with the 500 series. Maybe even go SLI with dual 580's or something.
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Lol im not sure where this is coming from but that is terrible advice, the 2600 is more than capable to render anything without the help of Cuda rendering, but the GTX 700 series have more than enough juice to help out not that he will ever need it. You cant be serious in suggesting outdated hardware for a modern gaming PC
 
If you're going to suggest that he avoid 700 series cards due to rendering issues, at least point him at the Quadro cards. Though they're s***e for gaming.
 
I do plan to render a bunch of video as well for YouTube. From what you all are telling me, do I have to decide whether I want to focus more on rendering vs. A high-quality gaming rig? At the very least, I'm planning to get my ram up to 16GB.
 
Ukraine Arsenal said:
Lol im not sure where this is coming from but that is terrible advice, the 2600 is more than capable to render anything without the help of Cuda rendering, but the GTX 700 series have more than enough juice to help out not that he will ever need it. You cant be serious in suggesting outdated hardware for a modern gaming PC
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So should I be OK with upgrading to the GTX 700 series and be able to render videos just fine?
 
Jamie Swordmaker said:
So should I be OK with upgrading to the GTX 700 series and be able to render videos just fine?
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You'll be able to render videos fine with the i7 2600. I myself have an i7 2600k and an hour of video takes about 2 hours render time using 2-pass. I just wanted to let you know, since I have seen a lot of people frustrated by the fact that CUDA rendering with GTX 600 series and up is not what it was before. On the other hand AMD cards still work fine using OpenCL rendering.
 
Jamie Swordmaker said:
So should I be OK with upgrading to the GTX 700 series and be able to render videos just fine?
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VeryGamey said:
You'll be able to render videos fine with the i7 2600. I myself have an i7 2600k and an hour of video takes about 2 hours render time using 2-pass. I just wanted to let you know, since I have seen a lot of people frustrated by the fact that CUDA rendering with GTX 600 series and up is not what it was before. On the other hand AMD cards still work fine using OpenCL rendering.
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Im not sure why you are recommending old GPU's or why you are even going to the AMD side. Your CPU will render things quickly and it will do the job by itself, that being said most programs don't really utilize GPU rendering that well anyway. Many programs need the GPU for live pre-render so you can see what you are editing, not in the final step when you are exporting. That being said although the 600/700 series do have worse CUDA performance than the predecessors its not gone, so if you find a program that will utilize the GPU for rendering you will love your GTX 700 Series set up. Also for gaming it is the best bang for the buck, as well as performance.
 
Ukraine Arsenal said:
Im not sure why you are recommending old GPU's or why you are even going to the AMD side. Your CPU will render things quickly and it will do the job by itself, that being said most programs don't really utilize GPU rendering that well anyway. Many programs need the GPU for live pre-render so you can see what you are editing, not in the final step when you are exporting. That being said although the 600/700 series do have worse CUDA performance than the predecessors its not gone, so if you find a program that will utilize the GPU for rendering you will love your GTX 700 Series set up. Also for gaming it is the best bang for the buck, as well as performance.
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I have adobe Premiere CS5, But I have no idea if it utilizes the GPU for rendering.
 
If your card is not supported, there is a hack for CS 5.5 and CS 6 that will allow Premiere to use GTX card for CUDA rendering. I can't post links yet but if you google "CS5.5 CUDA hack" there will be many results with how to do so.
 
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