I am currently running a Quad Core 9650 at 3.45Ghz on a Asus Maximus
Formula II with 8GB of DDR2 800 that I built in August of 08.
The rest of my components are good and don't require an upgrade
85o watt Seasonic
two Sapphire 5770s
Intel SSD for boot and a 300GB Raptor plus a collection of data storage drives.
All running Win7Pro SP1
It does what I need and it does it well, but with all the excitement
about Sandy bridge it got me thinking about upgrading my motherboard,
RAM and CPU this summer, once all the problems shake out. Right now I
am thinking about a 2600K Sandy Bridge, with a ASUS Rampage III
Formula and 16GB of RAM.... what speed of RAM am I looking for?
I use my PC for real work, day in and day out, and if I could just
upgrade the components without redoing everything I would be more
inclined to upgrade sooner rather then later. I am not interested in
just getting benchmarks. My question is will it matter... will I
really be able to notice. I do video editing, and encoding and I am
sure I will be able to notice there, but generally I encode over
night so an hour here or there isn't a big deal to me.
Am I looking at a noticeably gee whiz faster everything, or am I
barely going to notice in my day to day real world use?
thanks
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